Deanna H. Choi
sound designer / composer / performer / educator for plays / musicals / film / tv / interactive media; brain meets behaviour as neuroscience meets theatre
Deanna H. Choi creates original music, sonic environments, and sound reinforcement systems for stage, screen, and interactive media. Formerly a researcher in behavioural neuroscience, she integrates principles of psychology into her composition and sound design. Her designs for plays and musicals have taken her across Canada, including the Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, Neptune Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Soulpepper, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Tarragon, Coal Mine, Necessary Angel, Crow’s Theatre, The Grand (London), Theatre New Brunswick, Factory, Theatre Passe Muraille, Nightwood, Thousand Islands Playhouse, and the Blyth Festival. She graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music with the national gold medal in violin performance, and has completed artist residencies at the Banff Centre, Stanford University, fu-GEN Theatre, the National Arts Centre, and NYO Canada. She is the 2020 laureate of the Pauline McGibbon Award and has been nominated for a Merritt Award. She is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada, Screen Composers’ Guild of Canada, and SOCAN.
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