MEGUMI KATAYAMA is a Sound Designer, Sound Artist, and Composer based in NYC.

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Her sound design credits include NY: Regretfully, So the Birds Are (Playwrights Horizons), The Nosebleed (LCT3), For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf  (Public), The Life (Co-Design, City Center Encores!), Our Brother's Son (Signature), Generation Rise (Ping Chong + Company), The Gett (Rattlestick). Regional: 72 Miles to Go... (Alley Theatre), Sister Act (Geva Theatre Center), Pride and Prejudice (Long Wharf Theater), Dinner and Cake, The Skin of Our Teeth, An Almost Holy Picture (Everyman Theatre), Rooted (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Pass Over (Studio Theater), El Huracán (Yale Rep/The Sol Project, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Nomination), Queen of the Night, Laughing Wild (Dorset Theater Festival), Indecent (Chautauqua Theater Company), Marry's Wedding (Kansas City Rep), Rasin (Skylight Music Theatre), and more. 

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Her installation piece 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.

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