joe payne bio

Joe Payne is in his eighth season as resident sound designer for Pioneer Theatre Company and teaching sound design for the Department of Theatre at the U of U. He has designed sound and/or composed music for more than 100 productions in theatres throughout the country, including The Utah Shakespearean Festival (9 years), Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Salt Lake Shakespeare (2 years), The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, The Virginia Stage Company (4 years), The Egyptian Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Utah Opera, The Fulton Opera House, and Utah Musical Theatre. Joe is a member of United Scenic Artist local 829. His composition and design for PTC’s Julius Caesar was presented at the Prague Quadrennial design exhibition 2007, and will tour the states in 2008 as part of USITT's regional and national conferences.

Joe Payne is in his eighth season as resident sound designer for Pioneer Theatre Company and teaching sound design for the Department of Theatre at the University of Utah. Original music credits include: Othello, Julius Caesar (included in the Prague Quadrennial design exhibition 2007 and USITT states tour 2008), Humble Boy, Steel Magnolias, Ten Little Indians, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and Communicating Doors for PTC, Helen, Iphigenia, The Birdcatcher In Hell, Monster Spider, Agamemnon and Oedipus the King for the U of U, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Hamlet for The Utah Shakespearean Festival, Death of a Salesman for The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, I Am My Own Wife, and Humble Boy for The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Measure for Measure and Henry V for Salt Lake Shakespeare, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and A Village Fable for The Egyptian Theatre Company, Ten Little Indians for Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, and Macbeth for Weber State University where Joe received his Bachelor’s degree in Scenic and Sound Design. Other design credits include: nine seasons as Sound Designer for The Utah Shakespearean Festival, four years as Resident Sound Designer for The Virginia Stage Company, Noises Off for Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, A Little Night Music and H.M.S. Pinafore for Utah Opera, Macbeth for The Egyptian Theatre Company, Having Our Say for The Fulton Opera House, and a season with Utah Musical Theatre. Audio engineering credits include: The park City Arts Festival, The Virginia Symphony, The Virginia Beach Arts Festival and the boardwalk summer concert series for Onyx Engineering, many local Utah bands and conventions for Performance Audio, Babymoon Recording Studio, and his own recording studio which is located at the Pioneer Memorial Theater. Joe is a member of United Scenic Artist local 829 as a sound designer, and Co-Founder of the USITT Intermountain Desert regional section.