BIO

Jessica Paz (NY, London) is a multi award winning Sound Designer. Her work can be heard on Broadway at the critically acclaimed production of HADESTOWN (TONY and Drama Desk Award, Best Sound Design of a Musical); A BEAUTIFUL NOISE . Other Broadway credits as Associate Sound Designer include DEAR EVAN HANSEN; BANDSTAND; DISASTER! THE MUSICAL; THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES; and FELA! (TONY award, Best Sound Design of a Musical)

Other credits include the Off-Broadway production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Westside Theater). TWELTH NIGHT, OTHELLO; MISS YOU LIKE HELL; JULIUS CAESAR; A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, and AS YOU LIKE IT (The Public Theater); UGLY LIES THE BONE (Roundabout); A SUCKER EMCEE, and The MUSCLES IN OUR TOES (LAByrinth); THE KINGS WHORE (Starcatcher Productions); BECOMING DR. RUTH (Westside Theater); LOOKING FOR THE PONY (Vital Theater Co.); WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN (Red Bull Theater); STRETCH – A FANTASIA (New Georges). Regional credits include WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (Alliance Theater; SUZI Award); KISS MY AZTEC (Berkeley Rep, CT Critics Circle Award); BURN ALL NIGHT (A.R.T Oberon Stage); WELCOME TO FEAR CITY (KC Rep); SCOTT & HEM IN THE GARDEN OF ALLAH; and SEE HOW THEY RUN (Barrington Stage); LEGALLY BLONDE, and 9 TO 5 (North Shore Music Theater); ROMEO & JULIET, MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, OTHELLO, and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Shakespeare on the Sound); SCKBSTD (Virginia Stage Co) ; VOLCANOES BIRTHRIGHT (Organic Magnetics); TEMPODYSSEY, HER HAIR WENT WITH HER, BOOKENDS, and MINSTREL SHOW (NJ Rep).

Jessica has been a Front of House Engineer for musicians including The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Antibalas, Julia Haltigan, Femi Kuti, Lady Antebellum, Candy Shop Boys, People vs. Larson, Michael Arenetta, Bugaboo, Carte Blanche, King Holiday, The Woes, Stone Cold Fox, The African Children’s Choir and many others. She has also been a Lecturer of Sound Design at Princeton University. 

She is fascinated by music studio and live concert techniques. She is constantly learning and researching innovative approaches from the traditional music recording world, and bringing them into her theater work. A proud member of IATSE Local 829; and  Co-Chair of the board of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA).

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