Leah Gelpe <><> sound & video design
Sound and video for live performance, including theater, musicals, opera and dance. Based in NYC and working on and off-broadway, downtown, at regional theaters, and in Europe. Director collaborators have included Rachel Chavkin, Anne Kauffman, Pam MacKinnon, Will Davis, Steve Cosson, Ken Rus Schmoll, Kate Whoriskey, Davis Mccallum, Eric Ting, Sam Gold, Bill Rauch, Les Waters, Wendy Goldberg, Daniel Fish, Doug Fitch, Jay Scheib and Robert Woodruff. Honors include two Lortels for Outstanding Sound Design, a Connecticut Critics Circle Award, multiple Hewes nominations and the NEA/TCG Career Development Program.
SOUND—Scene Partners, Dir. Rachel Chavkin, Vineyard Theatre
SOUND—The Headlands, Dir. Pam MacKinnon, American Conservatory Theater
SOUND—My Broken Language, Dir. Quiara Alegría Hudes, Signature Theatre
SOUND—California, Dir. Will Davis, Clubbed Thumb Summerworks
SOUND—What You Are Now, Dir. Steve Cosson, Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Civilians
VIDEO & SOUND—Wakey, Wakey, Dir. Anne Kauffman, American Conservatory Theater
SOUND—Tiny Beautiful Things, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Longwharf Theater
SOUND—Log Cabin, Dir. Pam MacKinnon, Playwrights Horizons
SOUND—Cardinal, Dir. Kate Whoriskey, Second Stage
SOUND—Mary Jane, Dir. Anne Kauffman, New York Theatre Workshop (Lortel award for Outstanding Sound Design)
SOUND—Of Government, Dir. Jeremy Bloom, Clubbed Thumb Summerworks
SOUND—Sundown, Yellow Moon, Dir. Anne Kauffman, Ars Nova
SOUND—The Harvest, Dir. Davis Mccallum, LCT3
SOUND—Antlia Pneumatica, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Playwrights Horizons
SOUND—Night is a Room, Dir. Bill Rauch, Signature Theatre
SOUND—Judy, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Page 73
SOUND—Card & Gift, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Clubbed Thumb Summerworks
SOUND—The Invisible Hand, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, New York Theatre Workshop (Lortel nomination for Outstanding Sound Design)
SOUND—Grand Concourse, Dir. Kip Fagan, Playwrights Horizons
SOUND—Love in the Wars, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Bard Summerscape
VIDEO & SOUND—Tribes, Dir. Wendy Goldberg, Guthrie Theater
SOUND—January Joiner, Dir. Eric Ting Longwharf Theater (Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Sound Design)
VIDEO & SOUND—A Summer Day, Dir. Sarah Cameron Sunde, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
SOUND—Slowgirl, Dir. Anne Kauffman, LCT3 (Lortel Award Outstanding Sound Design)
SOUND—You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents' Divorce, Dir. Anne Kauffman The Civilians at The Flea
SOUND—The Big Meal, Dir. Sam Gold, Playwrights Horizons
VIDEO—Untitled Feminist Show, Dir. Young Jean Lee, Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
VIDEO—Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West, Dir. Les Waters, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
VIDEO—The Turn of the Screw, Dir. Sam Helfrich Boston Lyric Opera
VIDEO & SOUND—The Threepenny Opera, Dir. Sam Gold, Julliard
SOUND—What Once We Felt, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, LCT3
SOUND—Circle Mirror Transformation, Dir. Sam Gold, Playwrights Horizons
VIDEO—Reborning, Dir. Kip Fagan, Summer Play Festival
VIDEO & SOUND—Telethon, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Clubbed Thumb
VIDEO & SOUND—Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, Dir. Anne Kauffman, Page 73 & Soho Repertory
VIDEO—Peter and The Wolf, Dir. Doug Fitch L.A. Philharmic at the Disney Hall
VIDEO—Judy Garland in Concert, Dir. Chris Giordano, Boston Pops and touring
SOUND—God’s Ear, Dir. Anne Kauffman, The Vineyard Theatre
SOUND—Hello Failure, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, PS 122
VIDEO—Palace of the End, Dir. Daniella Topol, Epic Theater
VIDEO—A Bird in Your Ear, Dir. Doug Fitch, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard
VIDEO & SOUND—This Place is a Desert, Dir. Jay Scheib, ICA, Boston & Under the Radar, Public Theater
SOUND—Amazons and Their Men, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Clubbed Thumb
VIDEO—The Ohio State Murders, Dir Evan Yionoulis, Theatre for a New Audience
VIDEO—The African Children’s Choir tour 2007-2008, Dir. David Travis
VIDEO—Works & Process: New Ballet, Chor. Alison Chase Miller Theatre
VIDEO—Walmartopia, Dir. Daniel Goldstein, Minetta Lane Theater
SOUND—Cipher, Dir. Kip Fagan. Summer Play Festival
SOUND—God’s Ear, Dir. Anne Kauffman, New Georges
VIDEO—Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, Dir. Lucy Sexton, Minetta Lane Theater
VIDEO—Britannicus, Dir. Robert Woodruff, American Repertory Theatre
SOUND—365 Days/365 Plays (week 10), Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Clubbed Thumb
SOUND—Two September, Dir. Loy Arcenas, The Flea
VIDEO—The Physician of His Honor, Dir. Eric Hill/ Monica Vinao, Brandeis Theater Company
VIDEO—Indian Blood, Dir. Mark Lamos, Primary Stages
VIDEO & SOUND—Fizz, Dir. Sam Gold, Ohio Theatre
SOUND—Le Grand Enfant, Dir. April Sweeney, Colgate University
SOUND—Millicent Scowlworthy, Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Summer Play Festival
SOUND—Mark Smith, Dir Ken Rus Schmoll, 13P
VIDEO—Island of Slaves, Dir. Robert Woodruff, American Repertory Theatre
VIDEO & SOUND—Trace, Dir. Jeremy Xido/ Claudia Heu, Austrian Cultural Forum , WUK (Vienna) and Arge Theater (Salzburg)
VIDEO & SOUND—The Power of Darkness, Dir. Jay Scheib, Trafo House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest)
VIDEO & SOUND—The Medea, Dir. Jay Scheib, Lamama, ETC. & Sabancy International Theater Festival
VIDEO & SOUND—In This is the End of Sleeping, Dir. Jay Scheib Chekhov Now Festival at The Connelly Theater
VIDEO & SOUND—The Vomit Talk of Ghosts, Dir. Jay Scheib, The Flea
VIDEO & SOUND—Lorenzaccio, Dir. Jay Scheib, Loeb Drama Center (Cambridge)
SOUND—The Black Monk, Dir. Daniel Fish, Yale Repertory Theatre
VIDEO & SOUND—West Pier, Dir. Jay Scheib, Ohio Theatre
VIDEO—Sie Gestatten! (Permit Me), Dir. Jay Scheib/Adeline Rosenstein, 3. Stock, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxembourg Platz (Berlin)
VIDEO & SOUND—The War Plays, Dir. Jay Scheib, Mozarteum (Salzburg)
VIDEO & SOUND—Eveg Es MáK (Glass Mohn), Dir. Jay Scheib, Theater Mu (Budapest)
SOUND—The Lady from the Sea, Dir. Kate Whoriskey, Intiman Theatre
SOUND—In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields, Dir. Jay Scheib, Mozarteum (Salzburg)
SOUND—Saved, Dir. Robert Woodruff, Theatre for A New Audience
VIDEO & SOUND—Herakles/Herakles 5, Dir. Jay Scheib, Chashama
VIDEO & SOUND—Godard (distant & right), Dir. Robert Woodruff, Ohio Theatre and Festival des Amandiers (Nanterre)
VIDEO—Falling and Waving, Dir. Jay Scheib Arts at St. Ann’s
SOUND—Not Sightly, Composition for CD Release, Prod. Eric Belgum, Voys Editions.
VIDEO—George Bataille's Bathrobe, Dir. Yelena Gluzman, Todo Con Nada
VIDEO & SOUND—Miss Julie, Dir. Jay Scheib, Todo Con Nada
VIDEO—The Battle/Mommsen's Block, Dir. Jay Scheib, Arcade Studio Theatre (Minneapolis)
AWARDS
Lucille Lortal Award for Outstanding Sound Design, 2018 (Mary Jane)
Lucille Lortel nomination, 2015 (The Invisible Hand)
Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Sound Design, 2013 (Slowgirl)
Connecticut Critics Circle Award, 2013 (January Joiner)
Henry Hewes Design Award nominations, 2015 (The Invisible Hand) & 2013 (Slowgirl)
NEA/TCG Career Development Program, 2005-2007