Current / Recent projects:
Harry Potter And The Cursed Child- Palace Theatre (West End), Lyric Theatre (Broadway), Princess Theatre (Melbourne). Director: John Tiffany. Music by Imogen Heap. 2017 Olivier Award for Best Sound Design. 2018 Tony Award for Best Sound Design.
The Encounter - Complicité, with Pete Malkin. Director: Simon McBurney. Winner of Special Tony Award for Sound Design, as well as Drama Desk, Helpmann and Evening Standard Awards for sound design.
The Barber Shop Chronicles- National Theatre and USA tour. Director: Bijan Sheibani.
Omay, Between The Ears- BBC Radio 3. Produced by David Waters. Listen here (with headphones)
The Discovery Adventures- Land Rover / Cecilia. A 7-part family drama podcast, recorded binaurally. Listen here (with headphones)
Hear Their There Here- iPhone/Android app-based sound-walk around Brooklyn Bridge Park. Director: Geoff Sobelle
David Bowie is- Brooklyn Museum, New York, V&A Museum touring exhibition.
Draw Me Close- VR experience for the NT's Immersive storytelling studio, selected for Tribeca and Venice Film Festivals
Fraulein Julie- Schaubuhne, Berlin. Directed by Katie Mitchell.
The Cat in the Hat - MTI / National Theatre. Directed by Katie Mitchell
Gareth Fry is an award winning sound designer best known for creating work with leading UK theatre directors such as John Tiffany, Complicite's Simon McBurney, Sacha Wares and Katie Mitchell. He is a founder and ex-chair of the Association of Sound Designers, which supports those in, and trying to enter, the UK theatre sound industry. He is an expert in binaural sound, as used in Complicité's The Encounter, for which he has won multiple awards. He was asked by Danny Boyle to design the sound effects for the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. 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 as "visionary". He won the 2009 Olivier Award for his work on "Black Watch" and again in 2017 for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", both directed by John Tiffany, and...
Working with producer David Waters, we created this documentary about anthropologist Laura Rival, who spent many years living in the Amazon in a Huaorani community. It intersperse’s David’s interviews with her, with her own recordings made there, and binaural recordings I made in the Amazon Rainforest.
