MEGUMI KATAYAMA is a Sound Designer based in NYC.
OFF-BROADWAY & NYC: Jelly's Last Jam, The Light in the Piazza (NYCC Encores!), The Life (Co-Design, NYCC Encores!), Regretfully, So the Birds Are (Playwrights Horizons/WP), The Nosebleed (LCT3), For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (The Public), Romeo and Juliet (NAATCO/Two River), Our Brother's Son (Signature), Generation Rise (Ping Chong + Company at New Victory), The Gett (Rattlestick), NYTW Annual Gala (2023 & 2024).
REGIONAL: Cambodian Rock Band -Tour (Co-Design with Mikhail Fiksel, at Alley Theater, Berkley Rep, Arena Stage, ACT Theatre/5th Ave), English (The Old Globe), Rubicon (Denver Center for Performing Arts), 72 Miles to Go... (Alley Theatre), Sister Act (Geva Theatre Center), PROM (Zach Theater), Good Bones, Pass Over (Studio Theater), Dial M for Murder, Dinner and Cake, The Skin of Our Teeth, An Almost Holy Picture (Everyman Theatre), Living & Breathing (Two River), The Nosebleed (Woolly Mammoth), Sanctuary City, Rooted (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Marry's Wedding (Kansas City Rep), Pride and Prejudice (Long Wharf Theater), El Huracán (Yale Rep/The Sol Project, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Nomination), Thanksgiving Play, Queen of the Night, Laughing Wild (Dorset Theater Festival), Sense and Sensibility (Virginia Stage Company), Indecent (Chautauqua Theater Company), Raisin (Skylight Music Theatre), Vietgone (OKC Rep), and more.
As an associate/assistant, she has worked on shows including Dana H (Broadway) Is This a Room (Broadway), As You Like It (Public/Delacorte), Tambo and Bones (Playwrights Horizons, CTG), A Man of No Importance (Classic Stage Company).
Her installation Resounding World was selected for Prague Quadrennial 2023 National Exhibition. Spine Line Awake: Manuel Neri Redux (Yale University Art Gallery) was selected for the featured emerging artist exhibit at Prague Quadrennial 2019.
1MOVE: DES19NED BY...(The Movement Theatre Company) was nominated for Drama League's Outstanding Digital Theater, Collection, or Festival.
In addition to Theater, she has worked on Art Installations, Video Projects, Short Films, Audio Plays, VR, Corporate Events, and TV Productions.
Originally from Japan, Megumi holds a BFA from the University of Central Oklahoma and an MFA in Sound Design from Yale School of Drama.
Member of IATSE Local USA 829.