About Me

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Freelance Production Sound Mixer for film / video / audio productions 1978 to present.
Experienced in ... cinema verite, dramatic features, documentaries, commercials, music specials, "reality", "run and gun"

AWARDS
Multiple films for which I recorded sound were Winners of Academy Award for Best Documentary. Multiple films for which I recorded sound have been Academy Award Nominee .

I am recipient of golden Emmy statue, "Director, Best Documentary." (NBC Reports 90-min prime time special, "To Be A Doctor".)

Author, "Filming Lifeline for Prime Time" --published in American Cinematographer Magazine.

Production Sound for Theatrical release features/shorts, Documentaries, Commercials---
Credits include multiple New York Metropolitan Opera feature-length specials, for theatrical digital simulcast worldwide, including "Yannick, Portrait of an Artist", "Wagner's Dream", "The Opera House", "A New Butterfly for the Met" , "Baroque Duet" feature with Marsalis and Battle, and many others.
I spent one year recording audio for film profiles of each and every New York Broadway theater's architecture, historical role in NY Drama, including interviews with singers, dancers , actors, directors, producers, writers, stage managers, architects, in each theater. Sound recording for independent narrative short "The Callback". Sound for feature documentary in theaters: "Free Renty". Sound for "Cradle of Champions"(2018) feature length boxing documentary, theatrical release, 2018. Sound for Feature Academy Award "Best Boy", "Christo's Surrounded Islands", "(Christo's Umbrellas for California and Japan". "James Baldwin The Price of the Ticket" documentary. "Lost In Mississippi" (1998) documentary, "B.B. King , Sing Sing Thanksgiving"

TELEVISION
Sound recording for primetime programs on broadcast networks -- on location and in television studios -- over a period of several years, at ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, TBS, CTV, CBC, HBO. "Nat. Geo," Audubon, "Smithsonian World", PBS "Nature." News, drama, science, music programs. Sound for multiple episodes of nonfiction network specials--"ART 21", "Frontline," "American Girl", "NBC White Paper" (Director), "NBC Reports", "ABC 20/20", "CBS Sixty Minutes." Sound for Charles Kuralt's final "On the Road" special. Six episodes "Portrait of America" series. "American Masters PBS series, 10+ hours; PBS "American Experience" series, 10+ hours. Childrens' Television Workshop programs, 10+ hours. "Big Blue Marble" syndicated weekly TV series, 3 years.

FEATURE FILMS
Sound recording for narrative feature films, "Rachel Getting Married" (special second unit), "The Lost Bird Project" theatrical feature release." Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll", Sound for "A Secret Space" feature drama for WNET Playhouse; "Until She Talks", independent feature, "39-1/2", sound for feature-length drama. Sound for "Cradle of Champions", Knickerboker theatrical release.

Classroom / Studio TEACHING
Sound theory / Technique Workshops at Syracuse University Art Department Film Division with graduate students working with faculty on scripted dramatic long-form projects, and shorts, multiple years, through 2023, which resulted in a number of films for which I shared responsibility for the sound with students.

I have been in the industry since 1980.