Sound Design
Good Samaritans
Good Samaritans: For this prodigal daughter, returning home may have been a big mistake. Her family are your basic church-going, God-fearing people. Except that her brother’s face is covered in mysterious cuts and bruises, and Mom’s new boyfriend just so happens to be twenty years old, and naked in their living room. A pitch black comedy, this is a brutal, blood-drenched portrait of an American family in crisis. Photos by @beyondyouphotography
Heartbeat Opera’s Faust
A classic tale. A wild retelling.
A lonely scholar makes a bargain with the devil, and all hell breaks loose. Heartbeat Opera’s distinctly American adaptation tells the story of Faust and Marguerite — a man who wildly misuses his regained youth, a young woman whose potential for life and love is cut tragically short, and the ravaged community left in their wake. Retelling one of the most popular operas of all time, we ask what happens when the soul hasn’t evolved along with the mind? When voracious ego rules us, and reckless forward motion is all?
Big Wave
Big Wave: Lisa, an antique dealer, helps her friend Nona, a hoarder, to clean her apartment before Code Enforcement comes to take down a wall. In between discussions, memories and an infinite amount of objects, this play reveals depth of loss, friendship and imagination. Photos by Jesse R. Tendler
Talking with Angels
Talking with Angels: In 1943 Hungary, a young woman named Gitta Mallasz defied the horrors of the Holocaust by posing as a Nazi officer, sheltering her friends and scores of Jewish women and children in a Schindler’s List-style sweatshop. As they faced the darkest depths of humanity, one of them began speaking in a voice that was not her own. They recorded her channeled messages in their journals, which were later published by Gitta, the lone survivor, as the book Talking with Angels. Photos by Maria Baranova
Vice & Virtue
Vice & Virtue: are Diambra and Isabella fighting because they love Fabio, or each other? A reimagining of the nearly fatal duel between these 1550s Italian noblewomen. Vice & Virtue's music is a pirate shanty sang by a siren. Created by Eleventh Octave Haus Photos by Rainbowie Media Logo by Zoey Michaels
“Kodi Milburn’s inventive sound work for theater encompasses lush compositions and evocative soundscapes that integrate harmony, color, foley, and space, working together to add depth and complexity to a scene and to the arc of a show. Kodi is also a fantastic collaborator: creative, proactive, generous, organized, versatile, and indispensable.”
Funny Guy
Funny Guy: a new dark comedy that explores the fragile underpinnings of romance, friendship, and success in two New York City couples. The actors play out a contemporary drama concerning jobs, love, and betrayal, while the dark side of their subconscious motivation is explored by the omniscient id, in the form of a 7-foot-tall neon marionette. Edinburgh Fringe 2024 Photos by Stephen Parker
“The work of Sound Designer Kodi Lynn Milburn is inspired. Storms, voices, classical music (piano/harpsichord), electronic eeriness, and oh, the scratching quill!”
Tussaud|Antoinette
Tussaud/Antoinette :A tale of two Maries.One ruled wax, the other ruled France.The music in Tussaud/Antoinette is a war between chamber opera & battle cries, reflecting the dichotomy of rich and poor during the french revolution. Created By Obscura Factory Photos by Jody Christopherson
“the sound made the atmosphere”
AMP
AMP: an electrical current, A Modern Prometheus, the story of Mary Shelley's creation of Frankenstein. Amp's sweeping romantic sound design features an orchestra of storms & disembodied voices. created by Obscura factory Photos by Hunter Canning and Kasey Anisa
“Sound Design is amazing”
The Resurrection of
The Resurrection of: intricately weaves a tapestry of lore and illuminates shrouded secrets of powerful womxn in history. a wildy thematic fever-dream of a soundscape. Created by Eleventh Octave Haus Photos by Jolana Varga Logo by Natalie Crawford