JOHN OWENS - SENIORCONSULTANT
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Main Responsibilities
Project management and providing consultancy in all aspects of theatre design, specialising in sound and communications systems.

Qualifications
Stage Management and Technical Theatre training at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Experience
Twenty two years working in technical theatre, mainly as production sound engineer and sound designer. Co-founder of Aura Sound Design Ltd (1998 – 2004), which specialized in offering sound design and consultancy services to theatres and producers all over the world.

Teaching
Visiting Tutor in Sound Design and Engineering at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, .

Sound Design Credits Include
A Doll’s House, The Blue Room, Judas Kiss, Private Lives – Broadway
When Harry Met Sally – West End
The Three Sisters, Dead Funny – Chichester Festival Theatre
Tape, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People – Soho Theatre
Closer, Internet Scene video realisation designer – National Theatre, West End, Broadway and World tour.

Co-Sound Design Credits Include
Company, Passion – West End; The Front Page, Nine, The Fix, Into the Woods, Enter The Guardsman, The Green Fields Beyond. – Donmar Warehouse; York Millennium Mystery Plays in York Minster.

Associate Sound Design Credits Include
Romeo and Juliet the Musical, Matthew Bourne’s Highland Fling, Death of A Salesman, The Blue Man Group. The Bacchai at Epidavros Amphitheatre – Greece. Jesus Christ Superstar – UK Tour.

Production Engineering Credits Include
Ninagawa’s Peer Gynt – World Tour; A Little Night Music, Lady in the Dark, Machinal – National Theatre; The Oedipus Plays at Epidavros Amphitheatre – Greece; Saturday Night Fever – Tour; Democracy, Vincent In Brixton, Elmina’s Kitchen – West End; Anything Goes, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma – National Theatre & West End; Mamma Mia – International Tour and Madrid; We Will Rock You – Madrid; On Your Toes – Tokyo; The Magic Flute – Arenas in Europe; Mary Poppins – West End.

Consultancy Work
The Cube, Corby; National Theatre Studio, London; Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London; Cottesloe, National Theatre, London; Old Vic Theatre, Bristol; Almeida Theatre; Hampstead Theatre, London; Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.