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​Sound design should function as a support for the action on stage or in a film, establishing a mood, act as a functional sound effect, or introduce a new scene or act​. The samples below range from musical compositions, atmospheric sound beds, and practical effects.

Sound Design Samples

In Gracie Gardner's Athena two high school girls train together for a fencing competition. They wish they were friends.
Paul Semrad · Athena Opening
Paul Semrad · Athena pg 20 transition
Paul Semrad · Athena End
Paul Semrad · Athena Rave Mix
Paul Semrad · No Man’s Land Memory Breath
Paul Semrad · No Man’s Land Memory Undercurrent 3
Paul Semrad · No Man’s Land Memory Undercurrent 2
​Suffocation Theory,  illustrates the descent of one man into a internet fueled, paranoid vision of the end of the world. 
Paul Semrad · Suffocation Theory Hero Theme Car
Paul Semrad · Suffocation Theory Party Edit SC
Paul Semrad · Suffocation Theory Animal Theme End Credits
Paul Semrad · Suffocation Theory Gun Theme
Paul Semrad · Suffocation Theory Cassandra
​Conor McPherson's St. Nicolas is the tale of a newspaper critic's peculiar encounter with a group of urban vampires. 
Paul Semrad · Saint Nicholas Top
Paul Semrad · Saint Nicholas Women
Paul Semrad · Saint Nicholas End Music
Red Chariot  a dense, science fiction story in which a mysterious set of Tarot cards that spontaneously appear on the internet bring about the fall of civilization.
Paul Semrad · Red Chariot Top Of Show
Paul Semrad · Red Chariot Alarm Transition
Paul Semrad · Red Chariot Heat Sounds
Paul Semrad · Red Chariot Scene 7 Sounds
Bertolt Brecht's still relevant masterpiece that tells the story of Galileo and his discoveries and conflicts with the Church.
Paul Semrad · Galileo Intermission
Paul Semrad · Galileo Scene 2
Paul Semrad · Galileo Scene 13
One of the cornerstones of American Theatre, Eugene O'Neil's Long Day's Journey into Night follows a family as they struggle through addiction and years of repressed resentment.
Paul Semrad · Long Days Journey Into Night Theme
The Droll is an ​anachronistic story of a Elizabethan theatre troupe struggling to produce Hamlet  during a public ban of theatre performances.
Paul Semrad · The Droll Cittie Scape
A young, American born, Russian woman returns to Russia to find her roots only to discover so much more in The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls.
Paul Semrad · Fairytale Lives Of Russian Girls Excerpt
Profanity takes place in a 1950's, Philadelphia real estate office where three brothers are locked in a power struggle while selling housing on unusable land.
Paul Semrad · Profanity Sequence

​Sound Design Productions

Suffocation Theory 
Undermain Theatre
Jake Nice, Director

St. Nicholas
Undermain Theatre
Blake Hackler, Director

Hedda Gabler
Undermain Theatre
Blake Hackler, Director

Red Chariot
Undermain Theatre
Blake Hackler, Director

An Iliad
Undermain Theatre
Katherine Owens, Director
How is it That We Live or Shakey Jake + Alice
Undermain Theatre
Katherine Owens, Director

Three Sisters
Undermain Theatre
Katherine Owens, Director

John
Undermain Theatre
Bruce Du Bose, Director
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Galileo 
Undermain Theatre
Katherine Owens, Director

Long Day's Journey into Night
Undermain Theatre
Katherine Owens, Director
The Droll 
Undermain Theatre 
Blake Hackler, Director

The Flick 
Undermain Theatre 
Blake Hackler, Director

A Stain Upon the Silence 
Kitchen Dog Theater 
Tim Johnson, Director

The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls
Undermain Theatre 
Dylan Key, Director

Profanity 
Undermain Theatre 
Katherine Owens, Director

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