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2025

Toronto Theatre Critics Award

So proud that Suba Sankaran and I were recognized by the Toronto Theatre Critics Awards for our work on Mahabharata!l Such an honour.

And of course congrats go to the band, cast, designers and company.

Globe and Mail article on the awards.

Wait Until Dark - Shaw Festival

Sanjay Talwar's beautiful direction gave me the opportunity to create an underscored thriller based on the 1940's movie about a blind woman being victimized and fighting back to criminals on the search for a mysterious doll.

Assistant Daniel Tessy helped through tech to bring this on stage.

Dora Award!

Shared with Suba Sankaran, we won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for sound design and music for part one, Karma, of Whynot Theatre's Mahabharata.

Mahabharata was nominated for 18 Dora's and our win was one of 5 we won this year.

Grand Mirage - National Ballet

Happy to be able to help Guillaume Cote through sound design on his piece, Grand Mirage, at his goodbye performance for the National Ballet. I helped unify his piece through sound design and new music based off a film he used as setup in the work.

Macbeth at Stratford with Robert Lepage

Robert Lepage's amazing reimagining of Macbeth at the Stratford festival set in an 80's biker world. Composing and doing sound design for this piece was a career highlight, with numerous challenges and so many opportunities to try some new ideas.

We had 6 electric bikes we rebuilt into stage motorcyles, worked out how mylar mirrors became Faraday cages and had the pleasure of combing djent electric guitar with some baroque influences.

Don't Go Home at the New York City Centre

Created music and sound design for Guillaume Coté and Jonathan Young's solo ballet/performance piece for the amazing Sara Mearns at the New York City Centre.

With a couple of trips down for workshops in New York and the East Hamptons we created a 30 minute piece. With electric guitar and strings, the music was edited and produced by David Travers Smith.

Mahabhara on tour

Whynot Theatre's Mahabharata started an epic international tour, taking 40+ performers to Banff, Perth, Toronto, Ottawa and ending at the Lincoln Center in New York.

What an honour and privilege to work be able to present this amazing 2 night performance to audiences in such amazing venues.

Jan 20-28 workshops and rehearsals in Banff
Feb 2-16 in Perth, Australia
April 1- 21 at the Bluma Appel in Toronto
May 5 - 25 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa
June 17 - 30 at the Lincoln Centre in New York