Sound Designer/Original Music Composer––A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet
Previously at the Festival: twenty-two seasons as designer and/or composer, including King Lear, Sweeney Todd, Henry IV-VI series, Hamlet, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Mary Stuart, The 39 Steps, Into the Woods
Other Theatres: Pioneer Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Syracuse Stage, Berkeley Rep, The Clarence Brown Theatre, Marble City Opera, Imagination Stage, The Neo-Futurists, Alabama Shakespeare, Round House Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Indiana Repertory Theatre, The Virginia Stage Company, The Egyptian Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Utah Symphony and Opera, and The Fulton Opera House
Awards: designs exhibited at Prague Quadrennial 2007 and 2015, World Stage Design 2017
Teaching Credits: associate professor of sound and media design at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; previously at Illinois State University and the University of Utah
Professional Affiliations: United Scenic Artists, Local 829, Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association, commissioner of the USITT Digital Media Commission
Website: paynesound.com