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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 Scott Elliot, 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, and Robert Woodruff.  Nominated for a Tony Award for her sound design for Mary Jane at MTC.  Other honors include two Lortels for Outstanding Sound Design, a Connecticut Critics Circle Award, and multiple Hewes nominations.

SELECT CREDITS

 

SOUND- Curse of the Starving Class, Dir. Scott Elliot, The New Group

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—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—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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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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