Simon Whitehorn

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About me

Simon Whitehorn - Sound Designer
Simon trained in Technical Theatre at Central School of Speech and Drama and also has two degrees in Music. He has been a sound designer for over two hundred productions in the West End, the UK and around the world.
Shows include The Playboy of the Western World, Singin' In The Rain, The Riot, The Villains' Opera, (National Theatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (West End and Broadway), The Constant Wife, The Beau, Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim, Sleuth, Calamity Jane, See You Next Tuesday, Entertaining Mr Sloane, The Seven Year Itch, Three Sisters, Cooking with Elvis, Forbidden Broadway, The Birthday Party (West End), Summer Holiday, Be My Baby, The Marquise (national tours), Look Back in Anger (Bath Theatre Royal), The Pirates of Penzance (West Yorkshire Playhouse), eighteen seasons at the Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, and Talk and Journey Zones of the Millennium Dome.
Simon was sound designer for the Vocal Futures production of Bach's St Matthew Passion directed by Patrick Kinmonth and conducted by Suzi Digby.

Additional skills:
Simon is one of the UK's leading trainers in Theatre Sound, devising and providing the sound training for the Association of British Theatre Technicians and the media and entertainment trade union BECTU. Simon wrote the national occupational standards for theatre sound and has taught at Central School of Speech and Drama, RADA, Rose Bruford, Bretton Hall, and teaches regularly at the National Theatre School in Copenhagen.

Skills

Job Titles	Sound Operator / Engineer, Sound Designer
Years in industry	6+ years
Organisations / Memberships	ABTT (UK), BECTU (UK), SBTD (UK)
Work Permits	EU