Gareth Fry

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Professional Member
First name
Gareth
Last name
Fry
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Mobile phone
07973352669
 

Personal information

Primary Job title
Sound Designer
 

Contact data

City
Woking
Country
United Kingdom
 

Additional information

Public Directory
  • Sound Designer (With over 25 Professional Credits)
What I'm working on at the moment
Harry Potter And The Cursed Child
Biog
Gareth Fry is a multi award winning sound designer, best known for his cutting-edge work in theatre, and his collaborations with many leading UK theatre directors and companies. He has also designed events and exhibitions, from the V&A’s landmark David Bowie Is exhibition, to being asked by Danny Boyle to design the sound effects for the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games.

Awards include an Olivier Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; a Special Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Helpmann Award and an Evening Standard Award for The Encounter (with co-designer Pete Malkin); an Olivier Award and Helpmann Award for Black Watch; an Olivier Award for Waves. and an IRNE Award for Wild Swans.

He is a specialist in the use of binaural stereo sound, being involved in a number of theatre productions, VR, exhibitions and advertising campaigns, including for Bose, Volvo and Land Rover.

His work includes over 20 productions at the Royal National Theatre, over 20 at the Royal Court and countless more at venues such as the Old Vic, Young Vic and in the West End. He has worked extensively internationally, particularly in New York, Berlin, Cologne and Dublin.

He regularly runs workshops for directors exploring how they can use sound design in their work. These workshops have been commissioned by the National Theatre, Sadlers Wells, Complicité, the Prague Quadrennial, Mousetrap Theatre Projects, NSDF, the Brit School, the JMK Awards and the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.

He is a founder of, and former chairperson, of the Association of Sound Designers, a charity that works to support people working in, and entering, the UK theatre sound industry.

Gareth is an honorary fellow of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

He is the author of Sound Design for the Stage, published in 2019 by Crowood Press.

He has contributed to BBC Radio 4’s World at One, and the World Service, to talk about the use of sound.
Audio Portfolio (SoundCloud link)
Areas you work in:
  • Theatre
  • Sound Effects Production
  • TV / Film Sound Recordist
  • TV / Film post production
  • VR/AR/360/Spatial Audio
  • Live Music
  • Installed Sound
  • Exhibitions (Galleries)
  • Hires
Represented by
Clare Fox Associates
http://clarefox.co.uk/
Special services offered:
Running workshops in Sound Design for non-sound people

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