Gareth Fry is an award winning sound designer best known for creating work for leading UK theatre directors such as Katie Mitchell and Complcite's Simon McBurney. In 2011 he was voted chair of the newly formed Association of Sound Designers.


He won the 2007 Olivier Award for his work on "Waves" at the National Theatre with Katie Mitchell, for which he was described by The Guardian newspaper as "visionary". He won the 2009 Olivier Award for his work on National Theatre of Scotland's much lauded "Black Watch" directed by John Tiffany, and the 2008 Helpmann Award for the shows performance in Australia. His work includes 18 productions at the Royal National Theatre, 12 at the Royal Court and countless more at venues such as the Donmar Warehouse, Old Vic, Young Vic and in the West End. He has worked extensively internationally, including New York, Berlin, Cologne and Dublin.


He regularly runs workshops for directors exploring how they can use sound design in their work. These workshops have been commissioned by the National Theatre Directors Course, Sadlers Wells Big Intensive, Theatre de Complcité Education, Mousetrap Theatre Projects, National Student Drama Festival, Brit School, JMK Awards and the Central School of Speech and Drama.


Gareth initially trained as a studio recording engineer and spent two years working for AMS Acoustics on speech intelligibility modeling before moving into theatre. He spent 4 years engineering the live sound component of BBC1's New Years Eve broadcast and works extensively at Somerset House on their range of public events including the annual ice rink and the Film4 Summer Screen open air cinema.  He also works as a photographer, specializing in time-lapse photography.

Contact Me

Gareth Fry, mobile phone: +44 7973 352669, email: garethfry@hotmail.com

I am represented by Clare Fox: http://www.clarefox.co.uk/

(c) Gareth Fry 2009