Beth Lake is freelance Sound Designer and theater practitioner based in NYC.
CURRENT + RECENT PROJECTS
Design for Joan at South Coast Repertory
Co-Design for McNeal at Lincoln Center Theater
Co-Design for Uncle Vanya at Lincoln Center Theater
Co-Design for Rachel Bloom’s Death, Let Me Do My Show
Co-Design for Camelot at Lincoln Center Theater
Design for Into The Woods at the Guthrie Theater
Panelist for USITT’s Forum@Four: What Is a Sound Associate?
Featured in Dramatics Magazine: Women Making (Sound) Waves
ABOUT
Beth works on a wide variety of projects, though she has a particular fondness for creating new, ensemble-based works. She loves being in the rehearsal room with the whole team creating exciting stories for all audiences.
She is a ACT member of IATSE and United Scenic Artists- Local 829.
Credits include:
Broadway: McNeal, Uncle Vanya, Our Town (Associate), Camelot, The Cottage (Associate); for colored girls… (Associate), Is This A Room?/Dana H. (Associate), The Sound Inside (Associate), My Fair Lady (Associate), The Play That Goes Wrong (Associate), Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Assistant), Misery (Programmer), Velocity of Autumn (Assistant)
Off Broadway: Death, Let Me Do My Show!, Russian Troll Farm, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, The Play That Goes Wrong, Victory Dance by the New Victory; The Wolves (Co-Design with Stowe Nelson); Freud's Last Session (NYC, L.A., Chicago, Regional)
Regional: Guthrie, South Coast Repertory, Alley Theater, Berkeley Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theater, Gulfshore Playhouse, Long Wharf Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Bucks County Playhouse, TheaterWorks, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, St. Louis Repertory, St. Louis Opera.
As an educator, Beth has served as lecturer at the Yale School of Drama, Indiana University, and CUNY Hunter College. She has given master classes on a variety of topics, but her favorite topics are how to collaborate with visual designers and the importance of the associate role in a production process.
In addition, Beth is a graduate of the M.F.A program in Sound Design at the University of California, Irvine. She spent three years in sunny California under the tutelage of Michael K. Hooker and Vincent Olivieri. Prior to attending UCI, Beth was at the University of Northern Colorado where she earned at B.A in Theater Arts.
Download Beth's resume here.