SIMON BAKER (Sound) Simon graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1992. He worked for many leading theatre companies including the RSC and the Royal Court before joining the National Theatre where he held the post of Sound Supervisor. In January 1999 he joined Autograph Sound Recording Ltd.
Today, Autograph is a leading British sound design and equipment hire company, responsible for numerous theatre productions at home and abroad, including Les Misérables, Cats, The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, We Will Rock You, Miss Saigon, My Fair Lady and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
His sound design credits for the National Theatre include Closer (NT and Broadway), The Cripple of Inishman, King Lear, Othello and Blue Remembered Hills, The Day I Stood Still and more recently The Duchess of Malfi. For Autograph, Simon was Associate Sound Designer on the London productions of The Witches of Eastwick, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (West End and Broadway) and Mary Poppins (all with Andrew Bruce) and more recently Spamalot (West End for ACME).
His Sound Design credits include The Caretaker; Feelgood; Closer To Heaven; 125th Street; The Play What I Wrote (West End, UK tour and Broadway); Cats (UK tour); On Your Toes (with Terry Jardine); Jailhouse Rock; Rebecca; Heroes; Ducktastic and Lord of The Rings (Toronto).
In 2002 he was the recipient of the International Sound Designer of the Year Award from Entertainment Design Magazine. |
