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Leah Gelpe, sound design

Award winning sound and video designer for live performance, including theater, musicals, opera and dance.  Based in NYC and working on and off-Broadway, downtown, at regional theaters, and in Europe.   Director collaborators have included Anne Kauffman, Rachel Chavkin, Pam MacKinnon, Will Davis, Steve Cosson, Ken Rus Schmoll, Kate Whoriskey, Davis Mccallum, Eric Ting, Bill Rauch, Wendy Goldberg, Evan Yionoulis, Doug Fitch, Sam Gold, Jay Scheib and Robert Woodruff.  Recently nominated for a Tony Award for her sound design of Mary Jane at MTC.  Other honors include two Lortels for Outstanding Sound Design, a Connecticut Critics Circle Award, and multiple Hewes nominations.

SOUND--Mary Jane, Dir. Anne Kauffman, Manhattan Theater Club (Tony nomination for Best Sound Design of a Play)

SOUND—Scene Partners, Dir. Rachel Chavkin, Vineyard Theatre

SOUND—The Headlands, Dir. Pam MacKinnon, American Conservatory Theater

SOUND—My Broken Language, Dir. Quiara Alegría Hudes, Signature Theatre

SOUND—California, Dir. Will Davis, Clubbed Thumb Summerworks

SOUND—What You Are Now, Dir. Steve Cosson, Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Civilians

VIDEO & SOUND—Wakey, Wakey, Dir. Anne Kauffman, American Conservatory Theater

SOUNDTiny Beautiful Things, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Longwharf Theater

SOUND—Log Cabin, Dir. Pam MacKinnon, Playwrights Horizons

SOUND—Cardinal, Dir. Kate Whoriskey, Second Stage

SOUND—Mary Jane, Dir. Anne Kauffman, New York Theatre Workshop (Lortel award for Outstanding Sound Design)

SOUND—Of Government, Dir. Jeremy Bloom, Clubbed Thumb Summerworks

SOUND—Sundown, Yellow Moon, Dir. Anne Kauffman, Ars Nova

SOUND—The Harvest, Dir. Davis Mccallum, LCT3 

SOUND—Antlia Pneumatica, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Playwrights Horizons

SOUND—Night is a Room, Dir. Bill Rauch, Signature Theatre

SOUND—Judy, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Page 73

SOUND—Card & Gift, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Clubbed Thumb Summerworks

SOUND—The Invisible Hand, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, New York Theatre Workshop (Lortel nomination for Outstanding Sound Design)

SOUND—Grand Concourse, Dir. Kip Fagan, Playwrights Horizons

SOUND—Love in the Wars, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Bard Summerscape

VIDEO & SOUND—Tribes, Dir. Wendy Goldberg, Guthrie Theater

SOUND—January Joiner, Dir. Eric Ting Longwharf Theater (Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Sound Design)

VIDEO & SOUND—A Summer Day, Dir. Sarah Cameron Sunde, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

SOUND—Slowgirl, Dir. Anne Kauffman, LCT3 (Lortel Award Outstanding Sound Design)

SOUND—You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents' Divorce, Dir. Anne Kauffman The Civilians at The Flea

SOUND—The Big Meal, Dir. Sam Gold, Playwrights Horizons

VIDEO—Untitled Feminist Show, Dir. Young Jean Lee, Young Jean Lee's Theater Company

VIDEO—Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West, Dir. Les Waters, Berkeley Repertory Theatre

VIDEO—The Turn of the Screw, Dir. Sam Helfrich Boston Lyric Opera

VIDEO & SOUND—The Threepenny Opera, Dir. Sam Gold, Julliard

SOUND—What Once We Felt, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, LCT3

SOUND—Circle Mirror Transformation, Dir. Sam Gold, Playwrights Horizons

VIDEO—Reborning, Dir. Kip Fagan, Summer Play Festival 

VIDEO & SOUND—Telethon, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Clubbed Thumb

VIDEO & SOUND—Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, Dir. Anne Kauffman, Page 73 & Soho Repertory

VIDEO—Peter and The Wolf, Dir. Doug Fitch L.A. Philharmic at the Disney Hall

VIDEO—Judy Garland in Concert, Dir. Chris Giordano, Boston Pops and touring

SOUND—God’s Ear, Dir. Anne Kauffman, The Vineyard Theatre

SOUND—Hello Failure, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, PS 122

VIDEO—Palace of the End, Dir. Daniella Topol, Epic Theater

VIDEO—A Bird in Your Ear, Dir. Doug Fitch, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard

VIDEO & SOUND—This Place is a Desert, Dir. Jay Scheib, ICA, Boston & Under the Radar, Public Theater

SOUND—Amazons and Their Men, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Clubbed Thumb

VIDEO—The Ohio State Murders, Dir Evan Yionoulis, Theatre for a New Audience

VIDEO—The African Children’s Choir tour 2007-2008, Dir. David Travis

VIDEO—Works & Process: New Ballet, Chor. Alison Chase Miller Theatre

VIDEO—Walmartopia, Dir. Daniel Goldstein, Minetta Lane Theater

SOUND—Cipher, Dir. Kip Fagan. Summer Play Festival

SOUND—God’s Ear, Dir. Anne Kauffman, New Georges

VIDEO—Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, Dir. Lucy Sexton, Minetta Lane Theater

VIDEO—Britannicus, Dir. Robert Woodruff, American Repertory Theatre

SOUND—365 Days/365 Plays (week 10), Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Clubbed Thumb

SOUND—Two September, Dir. Loy Arcenas, The Flea

VIDEO—The Physician of His Honor, Dir. Eric Hill/ Monica Vinao, Brandeis Theater Company

VIDEO—Indian Blood, Dir. Mark Lamos, Primary Stages

VIDEO & SOUND—Fizz, Dir. Sam Gold, Ohio Theatre

SOUND—Le Grand Enfant, Dir. April Sweeney, Colgate University

SOUND—Millicent Scowlworthy, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Summer Play Festival

SOUND—Mark Smith, Dir Ken Rus Schmoll, 13P

VIDEO—Island of Slaves, Dir. Robert Woodruff, American Repertory Theatre

VIDEO & SOUND—Trace, Dir. Jeremy Xido/ Claudia Heu, Austrian Cultural Forum , WUK (Vienna) and Arge Theater (Salzburg)

VIDEO & SOUND—The Power of Darkness, Dir. Jay Scheib, Trafo House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest)

VIDEO & SOUND—The Medea, Dir. Jay Scheib, Lamama, ETC. & Sabancy International Theater Festival

VIDEO & SOUND—In This is the End of Sleeping, Dir. Jay Scheib Chekhov Now Festival at The Connelly Theater

VIDEO & SOUND—The Vomit Talk of Ghosts, Dir. Jay Scheib, The Flea

VIDEO & SOUND—Lorenzaccio, Dir. Jay Scheib, Loeb Drama Center (Cambridge)

SOUND—The Black Monk, Dir. Daniel Fish, Yale Repertory Theatre

VIDEO & SOUND—West Pier, Dir. Jay Scheib, Ohio Theatre

VIDEO—Sie Gestatten! (Permit Me), Dir. Jay Scheib/Adeline Rosenstein, 3. Stock, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxembourg Platz (Berlin)

VIDEO & SOUND—The War Plays, Dir. Jay Scheib, Mozarteum (Salzburg)

VIDEO & SOUND—Eveg Es MáK (Glass Mohn), Dir. Jay Scheib, Theater Mu (Budapest)

SOUND—The Lady from the Sea, Dir. Kate Whoriskey, Intiman Theatre

SOUND—In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields, Dir. Jay Scheib, Mozarteum (Salzburg)

SOUND—Saved, Dir. Robert Woodruff, Theatre for A New Audience

VIDEO & SOUND—Herakles/Herakles 5, Dir. Jay Scheib, Chashama

VIDEO & SOUND—Godard (distant & right), Dir. Robert Woodruff, Ohio Theatre and Festival des Amandiers (Nanterre)

VIDEO—Falling and Waving, Dir. Jay Scheib Arts at St. Ann’s

SOUND—Not Sightly, Composition for CD Release, Prod. Eric Belgum, Voys Editions.

VIDEO—George Bataille's Bathrobe, Dir. Yelena Gluzman, Todo Con Nada

VIDEO & SOUND—Miss Julie, Dir. Jay Scheib, Todo Con Nada

VIDEO—The Battle/Mommsen's Block, Dir. Jay Scheib, Arcade Studio Theatre (Minneapolis)

AWARDS

Tony Award nomination for Best Sound Design of a Play, 2024 (Mary Jane)

Henry Hewes Design Award nomination, 2022 (California)

Lucille Lortal Award for Outstanding Sound Design, 2018 (Mary Jane)

Lucille Lortel nomination, 2015 (The Invisible Hand)

Henry Hewes Design Award nomination 2015 (The Invisible Hand)

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Sound Design, 2013 (Slowgirl)

Henry Hewes Award nomination 2013 (Slowgirl)

Connecticut Critics Circle Award, 2013 (January Joiner)

NEA/TCG Career Development Program, 2005-2007

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Ron.Gwiazda@stewarttalent.com, Amy.Wagner@stewarttalent.com 

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