Simon Baker

Sound Designer

Simon's most recent work with Kneehigh is ‘Brief Encounter'. He has worked for many theatre companies including the RSC, Royal Court and NT where he was sound supervisor. In 1999 he joined Autograph Sound Recording Ltd. Today Autograph are a leading British sound design and equipment hire company, responsible for numerous theatre productions at home and abroad, including ‘Les Misérables', ‘Cats', ‘The Lion King', ‘Mamma Mia!', ‘We Will Rock You' and ‘Miss Saigon'. NT designs: ‘Closer' (NT, West End and Broadway), ‘King Lear', ‘Othello', ‘Blue Remembered Hills', ‘The Day I Stood Still' and ‘The Duchess of Malfi'. For Autograph: associate sound designer on the London productions of ‘The Witches of Eastwick', ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' (also Broadway) and ‘Mary Poppins' (all with Andrew Bruce) and, more recently, ‘Spamalot' (for ACME). Also, designs for ‘The Caretaker', ‘Feelgood', ‘Closer to Heaven', ‘125th Street', ‘The Play What I Wrote' (West End, tours and Broadway), ‘Cats' (tour), ‘On Your Toes' (with Terry Jardine), ‘Jailhouse Rock', ‘Rebecca', ‘Heroes', ‘Ducktastic', ‘Boeing Boeing', ‘The Lord of the Rings' (Toronto and London) and ‘I Am Shakespeare' (tour and Chichester). Awards: 2002 International Sound Designer of the Year (Entertainment Design Magazine) and 2006 Live Design International Award for ‘The Lord of the Rings' creative team.

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