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Sound DesignSimon Baker
Training: Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes: work for many theatre companies including the RSC, Royal Court and NT where he was sound supervisor. In 1999 he joined Autograph Sound Recording Ltd. Today Autograph is a leading British sound design and equipment hire company, responsible for numerous theatre productions at home and abroad, including Les Misérables, Cats, The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, We Will Rock You and Miss Saigon. NT designs: Closer (also West End and Broadway), King Lear, Othello, Blue Remembered Hills, The Day I Stood Still and The Duchess of Malfi. For Autograph: associate sound designer on the London productions of The Witches of Eastwick, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (also Broadway) and Mary Poppins (all with Andrew Bruce) and, more recently, Spamalot (London for ACME).
Also, designs for The Caretaker, Feelgood, Closer to Heaven, 125th Street, The Play What I Wrote (West End, tours and Broadway), Cats (tour), On Your Toes (with Terry Jardine), Jailhouse Rock, Rebecca, Heroes, Ducktastic, Boeing-Boeing, The Lord of the Rings (Toronto and London) and I Am Shakespeare (tour and Chichester).
Awards: 2002 International Sound Designer of the Year (Entertainment Design magazine) and 2006 Live Design International Award for The Lord of the Rings creative team.