| ADC659 / TMA AFofM | ||
| SELECTED THEATRE | ||
| The Hobbit | Composition & Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Pablo Felices-Luna |
| Crash | Composition & Sound Design | Imago Theatre; Dir: Krista Jackson |
| Anne of Green Gables | Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Kat Sandler |
| Women of the Fur Trade | Composition & Sound Design | Globe Theatre; Dir: Yvette Nolan |
| Winter Solstice | Composition & Sound Design | Necessary Angel; Dir: Alan Dilworth |
| Romeo and Juliet | Composition & Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Sam White |
| Letters From Max | Composition & Sound Design | Necessary Angel; Dir: Alan Dilworth |
| Women of The Fur Trade | Composition & Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Yvette Nolan |
| Casey and Diana | Composition & Sound Design | Stratford Festival / Soulpepper; Dir: Andrew Kushnir |
| Wedding Band | Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Sam White |
| R.U.R.A. Torrent of Life* | Sound Design | Tapestry Opera; Dir : Michael Mori |
| Beautiful Renegades | Composition & Sound Design | Peggy Baker Dance Projects; Dir: Eda Holmes |
| Elephant | Sound Design | bluemouth inc. |
| The Great Fire | Sound Design | Nightwood Theatre; Dir: Alan Dilworth |
| Death and the King’s Horseman | Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Tawiah Ben-Eben M’Carthy |
| Serving Elizabeth | Composition & Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Kimberley Rampersad |
| Winter Solstice | Sound Design | Soulpepper; Dir: Alan Dilworth |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Sound Design | Soulpepper; Dir: Weyni Mengesha |
| The Crucible | Composition & Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Jonathan Goad |
| Mother’s Daughter | Composition & Sound Design | Stratford Festival / Soulpepper; Dir: Alan Dilworth |
| Nathan The Wise | Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Birgit Shreyer Duarte |
| Wedding at Aulis | Sound Design | Soulpepper; Dir: Alan Dilworth |
| The Orchard (After Chekhov) | Composition & Sound Design | Shaw Festival; Dir: Ravi Jain |
| Idomeneus | Sound Design | Soulpeppepr; Dir: Alan Dilworth |
| The Secret Garden | Sound Design | Young People’s Theatre; Dir: Allen MacInnis |
| Secret Life of a Mother | Sound Design | SLOM Collective; Ann-Marie Kerr |
| The Jungle Book | Sound Design | Kidoons; Dir: Craig Francis & Rick Miller |
| Freedom Singer | Sound Design | Project Humanity; Dir: Andrew Kushnir |
| Treasure Island | Composition & Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Mitchell Cushman |
| The Changeling | Composition & Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Jackie Maxwell |
| Breath of Kings: Rebellion | Composition & Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Weyni Mengesha |
| Breath of Kings: Redemption | Composition & Sound Design | Stratford Festvial; Dir: Mitchell Cushman |
| The Aeneid | Sound Design | Stratford Festival; Dir: Keira Loughran |
| Caught | Sound Design | Theatre Passe Muraille; Dir Sarah Garton Stanley |
| The Just | Sound Design | Souleppper; Dir: Frank Cox-O’Connell |
| We Are Proud To Present…** | Sound Design | Why Not Theatre; Dir: Ravi Jain |
| Happy Place | Composition & Sound Design | Soulpepper; Dir: Alan Dilworth |
| Eurydice | Composition & Sound Design | Souleppper; Dir: Alan Dilworth |
| The Sound of Cracking Bones | Sound Design | Pleiades Theatre; Dir: John Van Burek |
| Small Axe | Sound Design | Young People’s Theatre; Dir: Alan Dilworth |
| Manon et Sandra and the Virgin Mary | Sound Design | Pleiades Theatre; Dir: John Van Burek |
| Little One | Sound Design | Tarragon Theatre; Dir: Natasha Mytnowych |
| Other People’s Children | Sound Design | Tarragon Theatre; Dir: Paul Lampert |
| Century Song | Sound Design | Volcano; Dir: Ross Manson |
| Crash** | Composition & Sound Design | Theatre Passe Muraille; Dir: Alan Dilworth |
| Mrs. Warren’s Profession | Associate Sound Design | Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre; Dir: Alisa Palmer |
| The Post Office*** | Composition & Sound Design | Pleiades Theatre; Dir: John Van Burek |
| Are You Ok? | Sound Design | Peggy Baker Dance Projects; Dir: Daniel Brooks |
| * Dora Mavor Moore Award – Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design – Opera Deivision
** Dora Mavor Moore Award – Best Original Sound Design – General Theatre Division *** Dora Mavor Moore Award Nomination |
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Driven by a deep commitment to the primacy of sound in creative expression, Debashis Sinha has created numerous audio-centred solo and collaborative projects across Canada and internationally. Sound design and composition credits include works for contemporary dance, video, film, and Dora Award-winning productions with many of Canada’s premiere performing arts companies, including numerous works for Peggy Baker Dance Projects, The Stratford Festival, Soulpepper Theatre Company, Canadian Stage, Why Not Theatre, and many others.
His speculative mythology-driven sound practice has led to live appearances at MUTEK Japan, the Guelph Jazz Festival, the Banff Centre, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and related fixed-media releases on Berlin’s Establishment Records imprint, Pluie/Noir, Gusstaff, online, in gallery spaces and elsewhere. These research-creation projects entangle sonic arts, ethnographic practice, new modes of cultural transmission, music composition and urban studies – many of Sinha’s works take as a foundation a large archive of field recordings he has collected over many years in the city of Kolkata.
Currently, Sinha has been researching sound production using machine learning and AI with an ear to uncovering new strategies and avenues of story creation. This research has been presented in a number of international conferences held by NeurIPS, the Royal Antropological Institute, Carleton University, NoiseFloor UK, and others, and resulted in numerous exhibitions including multiple audio and media commissions by Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Art. He has taught seminars and courses at the National Theatre School of Canada, York University, the University of Toronto, the Stratford Festival and other institutions, and is an external Research Fellow at Carleton University’s Research Centre for Sound, Music and Society in Canada and the York University Sensorium lab.
Sinha is the 2023 Louis Applebaum Composer’s Award laureate. The Ontario Arts Foundation/Ontario Arts Council biennial award focuses on composers for media in 2023.
