Joe Payne Sound Design - Composition - Projection / Media Design
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The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. 2000-Present
Department of Theatre Clinical Adjunct Faculty:TH2160 Design Studio (figure drawing and rendering for design students) Spring 2010.
TH4800 Mentor / Supervise (student audio internships with Pioneer Theatre Company) 2000-present.
TH4500 Sound Design II, 2005-present.
TH3500 Sound Design I, 2001-present.
TH3915 and TH4915 Independent design projects, 2000-present.
TH1550 and TH1050 Co-teach Scenography (intro to theatrical design elements) 2000-present.
Supervise and/or design mainstage productions. 2000-present.
Department of Theatre webmaster and website designer. 2005-present.
Original Music and Sound Design:
The Bakkhai, Composer for a rock musical and Scenic Designer 2009 L.L. West Director
Helen 2007 Barbara Smith Dir.
Iphigenia 2005 L.L. West Dir.
The Birdcatcher In Hell 2005 Linda Brown Dir.
Agamemnon 2004 Sarah Shippobothom Dir.
The Monster Spider 2003 Linda Brown Dir.
Desdemona, A Play About a Handkerchief 2002 L.L. West Dir.
Oedipus the King 2002 Linda Brown Dir.
Rhinoceros 2000 Linda Brown Dir.
Workshops / Outreach / Service
Workshop: Soundscape This!, Using multitrack software, Utah Theatre Association @ Utah Valley University 2010
Workshop: Sound Advice, Q&A for teachers and students, Utah Theatre Association @ Utah Valley University 2010
Workshop: Sound Advice, a forum on audio, Utah Theatre Association @ Weber State University 2009
Workshop: Microphones and the space, Utah Theatre Association @ Westminster College 2007
Workshop: Sound and the stage, Utah Theatre Association @ BYU 2006
Workshop: Website design for portfolios, USITT Intermountain Desert Regional Conference 2006
Workshop: Wireless microphones and wigs (co-taught), USITT Intermountain Desert Regional Conference 2006
Workshop: Microphones, uses and placement, USITT Southeast Regional Conference 2006
Workshop: SFX for beginners, and advanced tricks, USITT Southeast Regional Conference, 2006
Workshop: Sound for musicals, Utah Theatre Association @ U of U 2004
ACTF Barbizon Design Competition, Region VIII, Adjudicator 2007-2008
Sound System Consulting, Alt High School 2009
Sound System Consulting, Bonneville High School, 2008
Free system consulting, Salt Lake Community College, The Grand Theatre 2006-07
Free system consulting, Salt Lake City’s Unity Theatre Project 2006-07
Free system reconfigure and consulting, SLC, UT. Skyline High School 2006
Free system reconfigure and consulting, SLC, UT. Granite High school 2002
Pioneer Theatre Company, SLC, UT. 2000-Present
Original Music and Sound Design:The Yellow Leaf 2009 Geoffrey Sherman Director
The Vertical Hour 2008 Charles Morey Dir.
Othello 2007 Gavin Cameron-Webb Dir.
Julius Caesar 2006 Charles Morey Dir. USITT Prague Quadrennial 2007.
Humble Boy 2006 Charles Morey Dir.
Steel Magnolias 2005 John Going Dir.
Ten Little Indians 2004 Bruce Sevey Dir.
Brighton Beach Memoirs 2004 Paul Barnes Dir.
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde co-composed by James Prigmore. 2003 Geoffrey Sherman Dir.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 2002 John Going Dir.
Communicating Doors 2001 Charles Morey Dir.
Resident Sound Designer:
Our Town 2010 Charles Morey Dir.
Twelve Angry Men 2010 John Going Dir.
Touch(ed) (word premiere) 2010 Charles Morey Dir.
A Christmas Story 2009 Paul Barnes Dir.
Is He Dead? 2009 charles Morey Dir.
Dial "M" for Murder 2009 Gavin Cameron-Webb Dir.
Romeo and Juliet 2009 Paul Barnes Dir.
Noises Off 2008 Charles Morey Dir.
The Heiress 2008 John Going Director.
A Midsummer Night's Dream 2008 Paul Barnes Dir.
The Foreigner 2007 Charles Morey Dir.
Doubt 2007 Martin Platt Dir.
Lost In Yonkers 2007 Howard Millman Dir.
The Ladies Man (world premiere) 2007 Charles Morey Dir.
You Can't Take It With You 2006 Paul Barnes Dir.
Pride and Prejudice 2006 Charles Morey Dir.
Enchanted April 2006 Bruce Sevy Dir.
Metamorphoses 2005 Charles Morey Dir.
Amadeus 2005 Charles Morey Dir.
The Importance of Being Earnest 2004 Charles Morey Dir.
Alexandre Dumas and the Lady of the Camellias 2004 Charles Morey Dir.
The Real Thing 2004 Charles Morey Dir.
Cyrano de Bergerac 2003 Charles Morey Dir.
Macbeth 2003 Charles Morey Dir.
Copenhagen 2003 Bruce Sevy Dir.
The Playboy of the Western World 2003 John Going Dir.
Proof 2002 Charles Morey Dir.
The Mousetrap 2002 Geoffrey Sherman Dir.
Dinner With Friends 2002 Charles Morey Dir.
Tartuffe 2002 Charles Morey Dir.
The Three Musketeers 2001 Charles Morey Dir.
Laughing Stock (world premiere) 2001 Charles Morey Dir.
Present Laughter 2001 John Going Dir.
King Lear 2000 Charles Morey Dir.
Joyful Noise 2000 Charles Morey Dir.
Art 2000 Tom Marcus Dir.
Sound Design for a Musical:
42nd Street 2010 Charles Morey Dir.
A Chorus Line 2009 Patti D'Beck Dir.
Miss Saigon 2009 Karen Azenberg Dir.
The Light in the Piazza 2009 John Going Dir.
My Fair Lady 2008 Charles Morey Dir.
The Producers 2008 Charles Morey Director.
Paint Your Wagon 2007 Charles Morey Dir.
Les Misérables (LORT Premiere) 2007 Charles Morey Dir.
Chicago 2006 Charles Morey Dir.
Five Guys Named Moe 2006 Patti D'Beck Dir.
West Side Story 2005 Gabriel Barre Dir.
James Joyce's The Dead 2005 Charles Morey Dir.
Disney's Beauty and The Beast 2004 and 2005 Paul Barnes Dir.
Evita 2004 John Going Dir.
Smokey Joe's Café 2003 Patti D'Beck Dir.
Ragtime 2003 Larry Carpenter Dir.
Peter Pan 2002 Charles Morey Dir.
Phantom 2002 Gary Gisselman Dir.
Sophisticated Ladies 2001 Patti D'Beck Dir.
Camelot 2001 Paul Barnes Dir.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2000 Larry Carpenter Dir.
Projection / Video Design:
Miss Saigon (Video Design and slide implementation) 2009 Karen Azenberg Dir.
The Light in the Piazza (slide implementation and co-design) 2009 John Going Dir.
Paint Your Wagon (video design and slide implementation) 2007 Charles Morey Dir.
Les Misérables (slide design and implementation) (Regional Theatre Debut) 2007 C. Morey Dir.
The Ladies Man (video and slide design and implementation) 2007 Charles Morey Dir.
Chicago (video design and slide implementation) 2006 Charles Morey Dir.
Julius Caesar (video and slide design and implementation) 2006 Charles Morey Dir.
West Side Story (slide implementation) 2005 Gabriel Barre Dir.
Pioneer Theatre Company webmaster and website designer 2006-09.
The University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2009
Projection / Live and Recorded Video Design:The Who's Tommy 2009 Casey Sams Dir.
Indiana Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis, IN. 2009
Sound DesignThe Ladies Man (co-pro with Geva Theatre Center) 2009 Charles Morey Dir.
Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City, UT. 1999-2008, 2010
Original Music and Sound Design:Two Gentlemen of Verona 2008 Jesse Berger Dir.
Othello 2008 J.R. Sullivan Dir.
Coriolanus 2007 Henry Woronicz Dir.
King Lear 2007 J.R. Sullivan Dir.
Twelfth Night 2007 B.J. Jones Dir.
The Merry wives of Windsor 2006 Kate Buckley Dir.
Hamlet 2006 J.R. Sullivan Dir.
Romeo and Juliet 2005 Kate Buckley Dir.King Lear 2007 J.R. Sullivan Dir.
Sound Design:
Great Expectations (A New Musical) 2010 Jules Aaron Dir.
Pride and Prejudice 2010 Kathleen F. Conlin Dir.
Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps 2010 Eli Simon Dir.
Cyrano de Bergerac 2008 David Ivers Dir.
Antony and Cleopatra 2006 Nagle Jackson Dir.
Doctor Faustus 2005 Howard Jensen Dir.
Love's Labour's Lost 2005 Timothy Douglas Dir.
The Winter's Tale 2004 Fontaine Syer Dir.
The Taming of the Shrew 2004 Henry Waronicz Dir.
Henry IV Part 1 2004 J.R. Sullivan Dir.
Richard III 2003 J.R. Sullivan Dir.
Much Ado About Nothing 2003 Kate Buckley Dir.
Measure For Measure 2003 Liz Huddle Dir.
Othello 2002 Howard Jensen Dir.
Cymbeline 2002 Russell Trez Dir.
As You Like It 2002 Henry Woronicz Dir.
The Tempest 2001 Kathleen Conlin Dir.
Julius Caesar 2001 Jim O'Connor Dir.
Two Gentlemen of Verona 2001 Paul Barnes Dir.
The War of the Roses 2000 Howard Jensen Dir.
The Merry Wives of Windsor 2000 Liz Huddle Dir.
The Merchant of Venice 2000 Ina Marlowe Dir.
Damn Yankees 1999 Roger Bean Dir.
You Never Can Tell 1999 J.R. Sullivan Dir.
The Lion in Winter 1999 Kathleen Conlin Dir.
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, AL. 2007-2008
Original Music and/or Sound Design:On-site design consultant, Beehive: The Musical 2009 Geoffrey Sherman / Karen Azenberg Dir.
The Count of Monte Cristo 2008 Charles Morey Dir.
Death of a Salesman 2007 Charles Morey Dir.
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, St. Louis MO. 2006
Original Music and Sound Design:I Am My Own Wife 2006 John Going Dir.
Humble Boy 2006 Steven Woolf Dir.
Salt Lake Shakespeare, SLC, UT 2005-2006
Co-Artistic Director, Scenic Design, Projection Design, and Original Music:Henry V 2006 L.L. West Dir.
Broken Verses (one man world premiere) 2006 Kyle Lewis Dir.
Spin (an evening of various original scenes) 2006 various Dir.
Measure For Measure 2005 Kyle Lewis Dir.
Mystery, This Is The Place. Radio drama. SLC, UT. 2004
Original Music and Sound Design:The Abracadabra Man (KUER - NPR) 2004 Joyce Cohen Dir.
Utah Symphony & Opera, Salt Lake City, UT. 2002 and 2004
Sound Design and Engineer:How The Trumpet Got Its Toot 2004 Craig Rich Dir.
H.M.S. Pinafore (Deer Valley Music Festival) 2004 Patricia Weinmann Dir.
A Little Night Music (2002 Olympics Cultural Olympiad) 2002 Michael Leeds Dir.
The Egyptian Theatre Company, Park City, UT. 2001-2004
Original Music:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 2004 L.L. West Dir.
A Village Fable 2002 Dana Keiter Dir.
Sound Design:
Macbeth 2001 Kyle Lewis Dir.
I Love You, You're Perfect Now Change 2002 John Caywood Dir.
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati, OH. 2002
Original Music:Ten Little Indians 2002 John Going Dir.
New York International Fringe Festival 2001
Sound Design and Original Music:B$LL 2001 Helen Richardson Dir.
Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee, WI. 1999
Sound Design:Noises Off 1999 Paul Barnes Dir.
The Fulton Opera House, Lancaster, PA. 1998
Sound Design:Having Our Say 1998 Julie Wilson
Virginia Stage Company, Norfolk, VA. 1996-99
Resident Sound Designer:The Beauty Queen of Leenane 1999 Jeanette Lambermont Dir.
The Importance of Being Earnest 1999 Charlie Hensley Dir.
The Old Settler 1998 Harold Scott Dir.
Travels With My Aunt co-pro Syracuse Stage. 1998 Michael Lasswell Dir.
A Christmas Carol 1998 & 1999 Charlie Hensley Dir.
A Delicate Balance 1998 Charlie Hensley Dir.
Terra Nova 1997 Charlie Hensley Dir.
The Mystery of Irma Vep 1996 Chris Clavelli Dir.
Hamlet 1996 Charlie Hensley Dir.
A Penny for the Guy 1996 Charlie Hensley Dir.
Deathtrap 1996 Dex Edwards Dir.
Sound Design and Engineer:
Nobody Lonesome for Me (world premiere) 1999 Charlie Hensley Dir.
Falsettos 1998 Charlie Hensley Dir.
Pump Boys and Dinettes 1998 Jason Edwards Dir.
Midsummer Night's Dream w/Virginia Symphony 1998 Paul Barnes Dir.
Dames At Sea 1997 Scott Schwartz Dir.
Appalachian Strings 1997 Randal Myler Dir.
Always–Patsy Cline 1997 Ted Swindley Dir.
Snapshots (world premiere) 1996 Michael Scheman Dir.
Utah Musical Theatre, Ogden Ut. 1992
Sound Design and Engineer:Cabaret 1992 Jim Christian Dir.
My Fair Lady 1992 Jim Christian Dir.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1992 Jim Christian Dir.
The Fantastiks 1992 Troy Fisher Dir.
Freelance Audio Engineering Credits:
2007-07 Mountain Town Stages, Park City, UT: Park City Arts Festival, Various summer concerts.1996-99 Onyx Engineering, Virginia Beach, VA: Virginia Symphony, VA Beach Boardwalk Concert Series, VA Beach Arts Fest.
1995-95 Performance Audio, SLC, UT: 40+ various concerts and events; incl. symphonies, choirs, rock concerts, festivals.
1992-95 Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts, Ogden, UT: 300+ various theatrical tours, concerts, and events.
1992-95 Babymoon Recording, Alpine, UT: 50+ pre and post-production projects; including voice-overs, ensembles, & bands.
Self Owned and Operated Audio, Video, Media Production Studio in SLC
Demo reels for artists of Talent Management Group – Video editing and design. Various clients 2009-present.Various local bands and artists – Albums, demos, lots of voice over recording. 50+ projects, 2000-present.
Album recording and mastering including the award winning Optimus Prime funk album, 1997XF11.
Website design and programming including www.paynesound.com – 15+ clients. 2003-present.
Video editing and design for web advertising – multiple theatre clients, dozens of videos 2005-present.
Hundreds of music recordings specifically for theatre – listed above and also for faculty and student work. 2000-present.
Live Musician – Bass for the band The Gifted Seed. Half a dozen concerts since 2009.
Member of United Scenic Artists local 829, as a Sound Designer. 2003-Present.
B.S. - Theatre with emphasis in Sound Technology & Scenic Design: Weber State University, 1995.
