Theater

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THE LARAMIE PROJECT

"Sewell has created a soundtrack, including the whistling wind of the prairie, which adds much to location-setting, while the actors themselves also provide a variety of sound effects."

"Tom Sharp, Andrew Clemons and Sam Sewell (who also adds much to the play’s mood with her guitar-playing) stand out as most impressively being able to move quickly between very different and memorable characters."

-The Cape Cod Times

A Streetcar Named Desire

"What’s immediately striking about this production is the pre-show entertainment consisting of a live DJ, sound designer Sam Sewell, and male vocalist, Paul Outlaw, who engage audiences with traditional jazz-based songs in an electronic R&B style. This aptly sets the tone and time period for the play before it even begins..."

"Even more fascinating about this is that Sewell remains on stage for the duration of the performance running sound up-close and personal. Sewell’s sound design is the lifeblood of this production. From sound effects, hip-hop grooves, to soundscapes with spoken lines from the drama, her choices support everything that is happening internally and externally."

-Ryan M Luevano

Charles McNulty writes in today’s Los Angeles Times: “The best shows I’ve seen in 2018, Michael Michetti’s (still running) production of Tennessee Williams’ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ at The Theatre @ Boston Court and Richard Nelson’s production of Anton Chekhov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ at the Old Globe, they're classic plays treated as though they were hot off their authors’ typewriters.”

-LA TIMES

Gunshot Medley

"Ghostly echoed by Sam Sewell’s live soundscape, Gunshot Medley is enriched with elegant poetry, heart-breaking songs and resounding performances. In a world numbed by politically informed news reports, it's simple and painful truth took me by surprise and, if I had a chance, I’d go to watch it again, to fully appreciate all the nuances of this unmissable production."

-Everything Theater

"This is a remarkable production that combines a sharp poetic text with a challenging political vision, an imaginative sound design and powerful acting. It is one of the finest shows I have seen."

-British Theater Guide

Love Gasoline!

"Love Gasoline! is an interesting piece created and directed by interdisciplinary performer Stacy Dawson Stearns who has crafted a humorous and intimate performance that embraces the erotic physicality of Duchamp’s work whilst portraying the counterpoint of the mechanisation of the human form that appears throughout his work. This is portrayed well in the differing styles of choreography that each of the three performers onstage work within and the use of dialogue and monologue that differentiate the characters."

-BroadwayBaby

The End, The End, The end

"Resistant art often feels like it contorts itself to move out of the shapes the system has made for it. The End did that. It didn’t conform. It created a show which did none of the things it was supposed to, and therefore made a show in which the performers could exist and live."

-Walking With Headphones