Deanna H. Choi

Composer Sound Designer Musician Theatre Performer Theatre Co-Creator

Deanna H. Choi (she/her) is a film composer and theatrical sound designer splitting her time between London and Toronto. Her background as a violinist and neuroscientist inform her approach to storytelling that is playful, imaginative, and highly collaborative. She composes original music for stage, screen, and installations, and her scores can be heard on Netflix, AppleTV, CBC Gem, while her theatrical work has been heard on stages across Canada, the US, and the UK including the Kennedy Center, Stratford Festival, and Mirvish Productions. Recent highlights include the espionage thriller series GRAY (starring Patricia Clarkson), the sci-fi comedy RELAX, I’M FROM THE FUTURE (starring Rhys Darby), conservation documentary LAST OF THE RIGHT WHALES (nominated for a Canadian Screen Award - Best Original Music), and ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (starring Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd). She is equally at home in intimate black box studios pioneering new work and in 1000-seat houses showcasing dazzling spectacles. She has been featured in conversation twice in the journal Canadian Theatre Review, received the Pauline McGibbon Award for Theatrical Design, and teaches at the National Theatre School of Canada. Deanna has served on numerous artist residencies including at the Canadian Film Centre (Norman Jewison) Music Lab, Necessary Angel Theatre Company, and the Banff Centre. Deanna, along with her artistic partner Maddie Bautista, won 2 Dora Mavor Moore Awards (5 nominations) for creating and performing the cabaret show LOVE YOU WRONG TIME, which sold out its premiere run in Toronto in 2023 before embarking on a national tour.

Credits

Selected Credits (outside UK):
SOUND DESIGNER/COMPOSER, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mirvish/Neptune Theatre, 8 weeks, 2024
COMPOSER, Somewhere in Time, Ballet West/Kennedy Center, 2 weeks, 2024
SOUND DESIGNER/COMPOSER, The Importance of Being Earnest, Citadel Theatre, 5 weeks, 2023
SOUND DESIGNER/COMPOSER, A Wrinkle in Time, Stratford Festival, 16 weeks, 2023
SOUND DESIGNER, Things I Know to Be True, Mirvish Productions/Company Theatre, 6 weeks, 2023
SOUND DESIGNER, Little Shop of Horrors, Capitol Theatre, 4 weeks, 2023
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Credits (within UK):
ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER/SOUND OPERATOR, Toto Kerblammo, Unicorn Theatre, 8 weeks, 2024
APPRENTICE SOUND DESIGNER, Mnemonic, National Theatre/Complicite, 2 weeks, 2024
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Full CV at www.splitbrainsound.com

Training

Royal Conservatory of Music - Gold Medal, Diploma in Violin Performance
Canadian Film Centre - Music Residency 2023
Media Sound Hamburg Sound and Music for Film - 2019
Banff Mixing Musicals Workshop - 2018
CMTWC Musical Theatre Writing Workshop - 2016

Location

London

Experience

10+ years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • AR / VR
  • Comedy
  • Dance
  • Film - documentary
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Music
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - documentary
  • TV - drama

What I do

  • Devising
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Music Composition
  • Performing
  • Sound Design
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with Deaf artists
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Writing

Additional Languages

French, Korean

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