Gareth Fry

Gareth Fry (born 1974 ) is a British sound designer .

life and work

Fry initially trained as a recording technician before deciding to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He developed the sound design for various plays, including:

• Shun-kin (Direction: Simon McBurney , Complicite, Setagaya Public Theater, Tokyo, 2008 and Barbican, London, 2008)
• Richard III by William Shakespeare (Direction: Sam Mendes , Old Vic Theater , London, 2011)
• The Master and Margarita by Michail Bulgakow (Direction: Simon McBurney , Complicite, Barbican, London, 2012 and Festival d'Avignon , 2012, Wiener Festwochen 2012)
• Let The Right One In (Director: John Tiffany , Apollo Theater, London, 2014)
• David Bowie Is (V&A Museum, London, 2013 and Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2014)

We have worked closely with director Katie Mitchell since 2007 . Gareth Fry created the sound design for the following of her productions:

• The Trojans by Jean-Paul Sartre after Euripides ( Royal National Theater , 2007)
• Request concert from Franz Xaver Kroetz ( Schauspiel Köln 2008 and Berliner Theatertreffen 2009)
• Miss Julie after August Strindberg (Direction: Katie Mitchell and Leo Warner, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin 2010)
• Wastwater by Simon Stephens ( Royal Court Theater London and Wiener Festwochen 2011)
• The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald (Cologne Theater and Festival d'Avignon 2012)
• Journey through the night according to Friederike Mayröcker ( Cologne Theater 2012, Berlin Theatertreffen and Avignon Festival 2013)

Awards

• 2007: Olivier Award for Sound Design - Waves after Virginia Woolf (Direction: Katie Mitchell , National Theater London)
• 2009: Olivier Award for Sound Design - Black Watch by Gregory Burke (Director: John Tiffany , National Theater of Scotland, Edinburgh).

Web links

• Gareth Fry on the website of the Salzburg Festival (with picture)