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KATIE DOWN (Sound Designer)

Emma GriffinKatie Down is a sound artist, composer, performer and sound designer for theatre, film, video, and dance and performs regularly with the infamous The Ukuladies, where she sings, and plays ukuleles as well as various toy instruments. As a theatre artist, she has traveled extensively throughout Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and South Africa with different companies as a performer, sound designer, and teacher in voice, improvisation, and clown. Katie plays several instruments including flute, ukuleles, guitar, didjeridoo, and glass harp as well as a host of homemade percussion instruments. Katie works regularly as a sound designer in New York City and regionally and has created numerous sound scores and original music for Off- Broadway and regional theatrical productions including: Palace of the End (Epic Theatre), Blue4 Before Morning (Terra Nova), Cecilia’s Last Tea Party (Passage Theatre), The Rivals (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), Faust (Target Margin), Trouble in Paradise (The Hourglass Group), Innocents (Ripetime), Serendib (Ensemble Studio Theatre) and many others. Internationally, Katie has performed at both music and theatre festivals including the Fryma e Re Festival in Kosovo, Zomerfietztour in Holland, The Ohrid Summer Festival in Macedonia, Trn Festival in Slovenia, and the Malta Festival in Poland. She often travels throughout the Balkans and Eastern Europe conducting voice, music and movement, and clowning workshops. She is a recipient of Meet the Composer commission program grants as well as travel grants through the U.S. Embassy in Pristina, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, and the Mid Atlantic Foundation. www.katiedown.com

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