Bart Fasbender (Sound Designer)

Bart has been the sound designer for over 100 productions in New York. He’s designed at The Public, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Atlantic Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Culture Project, Second Stage, Symphony Space, Juilliard, Fordham University, Baruch PAC, Tribeca PAC, The Ohio, PS122, HERE, and regionally at The Kirk Douglas Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Barrington Stage, New York Stage and Film, Virginia Playwrights Theatre, The Northeast Theatre, The American Dance Festival, and more over the past 15 years. His early experiences in theatre as an actor, set and lighting designer, electrician, scenic painter and carpenter come with him to create a balanced approach to his designs as a collaborative process. With his understanding and love of sound as music and language, his designs work within the context of the piece to underscore, support, punctuate and interact with the characters as would another actor on stage. And his experience in audio for television and film gave him the technical skills to create completely realistic soundscapes or bizarre bombastic moments when called for.

Select productions: Drunken City at Playwrights Horizons and U.S. Drag  at The Beckett dir. Trip Cullman; UNDERGROUND dir. Mark Wing-Davey and A View from 151st Street dir. Peter DuBois for LAByrinth at The Public; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at Williamstown Theatre Festival and at The Kirk Douglas Theatre for Center Theater Group, Hell House, Boozy…, and Heddatron for Les Freres Corbusier dir. Alex Timbers; underground at BAM for David Dorfman Dance; Terrorism for The New Group/Play Co dir. Will Frears; Bhutan at Cherry Lane and New York Stage and Film dir. Evan Yionoulis; The Attic for The Play Company dir. Ari Edelson; The Polish Play dir. Henry Wishcamper.

Upcoming designs include Conor McPherson's Port Authority at the Atlantic Theatre Company dir. Henry Wishcamper, Rajiv Joseph's Animals Out of Paper at Second Stage dir. Giovanna Sardelli and Lee Blessing's A Body of Water at Primary Stages dir. Maria Mileaf.