This is an entertaining episode with one of my favorite people Lindsay Jones, a Tony Award nominated Sound Designer & Composer. He explains how he got started in his career of composing music and sound design. We give a shout out to TSDCA.org (Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Assoc.) which he is a founding member. We discuss the importance of music on film and stage projects, referring to well-known songs and their influence.
Lindsay Jones is an award-winning composer and sound designer.
In theatre
He has been nominated for the Tony Awards of Best Score and Best Sound Design of a Play. His Broadway credits include Slave Play, The Nap, Bronx Bombers and A Time To Kill. His off-Broadway work has been heard at Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, MCC, Primary Stages, and many others. International credits include works at Royal Shakespeare Festival (UK), Stratford Festival (Canada), and many others.
Lindsay has created music and sound for over 500 productions in regional theatres across the US. Awards include seven Joseph Jefferson Awards and twenty-four nominations, 2 ASCAP Plus Awards, two Ovation Awards and three nominations, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, a San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award and two nominations, as well as multiple nominations for Drama Desk Awards, Helen Hayes Awards, Barrymore Awards, and many others.
In film/television
He has created original score for over 35 projects, including HBO Films’ A Note Of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin, which won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subject.
His work encompasses features like The View From Tall, Ash, and The Brass Teapot; TV shows such as Sony Pictures’ series Family Practice for Lifetime Television, shorts such as The Follower, House Of Stairs, and Grace; and full-length documentaries such as Hearing Voices and Cleaveland. His current score for Dinosaur Discoveries is now playing at the Houston Museum of Nature Science.
In podcasts, Lindsay is currently the in-house composer/sound designer for the weekly podcast The Imagine Neighborhood, produced by the Committee For Children as well as the in-house designer for the Play On Shakespeare series for Next Chapter Podcasts. Other podcast and audio drama work includes A Streetcar Named Desire (starring Audra McDonald) for Audible, Wormwood (featuring Kevin Kline) for Real Jetpacks Productions, Hamlet for KPBS/The Old Globe, Soundstage for Playwrights Horizons, Twelfth Night and Measure For Measure for Chicago Shakespeare, and The Intersect for Micromass.
In education, Lindsay is currently an adjunct professor of sound design at University of North Carolina School Of The Arts. Other universities where he’s taught include Yale, Juilliard, Northwestern, Purdue, DePaul, NYU, UCLA, UCSD, UC Irvine, Rutgers, University of Illinois, and Chapman.
In advocacy, Lindsay is a founding member and the co-chair of the executive board of Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA), and co-founded The Collaborator Party with John Gromada. He is also a founding member of NO MORE 10 Out Of 12’s, an advocacy group dedicated to safe working environments in theatre.
Listen to episode
Lindsay Jones – https://www.lindsayjones.com/
TSDCA – https://tsdca.org/
Imagine Neighborhood – https://www.imagineneighborhood.org/
Next Chapter Podcasts – Measure For Measure – https://ncpodcasts.com/measure-for-measure
Marvel Wastelanders – https://www.marvel.com/digital-series/podcasts/marvels-wastelanders-old-man-star-lord
Jane Anger – https://www.shakespearetheatre.org/events/jane-anger-22-23/
Happy New Year! It’s that time of the year where most of us reflect on what we did or didn’t do in 2022. Looking forward to an upward emotion in 2023. I’m hopeful. Even though, like many others, I’ve had a challenging year in various aspects of my life. I feel hopeful and excited about the new year. It might be a dream, but I’m okay with it. We need to flourish with possibilities.