

Oliver Brown
Freelance Theatre Technician
Specializing in Sound Engineering and Mixing as well as computer networking

Moana JR. Edition
Disney’s Moana JR. is a 60-minute musical based on the 2016 Disney animated movie Moana, about an adventurous teenager who embarks on a daring mission across the Pacific Ocean to save her people.
Role: Lighting Designer and Operator

Attempts on Her Life
At turns hilarious and shocking, Attempts on Her Life is a theatrical rollercoaster of twentieth-century obsessions.
Martin Crimp’s ‘17 scenarios for the theatre’ presents an intriguing array of nameless characters who attempt to invent the perfect story to encapsulate our time. As one says, “The point is that the search for a point is pointless.”
Role: Production Sound
Sound Designer – Levi Meehan-Powell
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Director – Emma Baggott
Set & Costume Designer – Peter Butler
Adi Gortler movement director
Intimacy Director – Raniah Al-Sayed
Lighting Designer – Ros Chase
Video Designer – Ryan Samuel Davies

Dead Man Walking
Dead Man Walking is one of the most powerful and thought-provoking operas of recent decades, exploring questions of faith, redemption and justice.
Based on the memoir of the same name by Sister Helen Prejean, it tells the true story of a nun’s journey as a spiritual advisor to a convicted murderer on death row in Louisiana’s hardline state penitentiary.
Role: Production Electrician
Lighting Designer | Anthony Doran
Associate Lighting designer | Ros Chase
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Music by Jake Heggie
Libretto by Terrence McNally
director | Martin Lloyd-Evans
conductor | Dominic Wheeler
assistant directors | Edie Bailey & Anne Sutton
assistant conductor & chorus master | Edwin Spark
designer | Anna Reid
associate designer | Kyra Coppini
sound designer | Andy Taylor
chief music coach | Aoife Moran
répétiteurs | Alistair Burton & Michael Rose

Cinderella Pantomime
Role: Emergency Cover – Sound Engineer / Operator

Everyman
Role: Production Manager
Everyman is at his peak; successful and loved by everyone, when suddenly Death comes calling. Deserted by friends, family and everything he’s built for himself, Everyman sets out on a final frantic search for a friend, anyone, to speak in his defence.
Everyman asks whether it is only at the end that we can truly understand our lives, exploring ‘both the frantic dizziness of a money-driven world and the beckoning finality of death’ (Guardian).
Award-winning poet and playwright Carol Ann Duffy’s thrilling contemporary adaptation of the fifteenth century play The Summoning of Everyman, is directed by Katherine Nesbitt.
Amanda Mascarenhas (set designer)
Vanessa Lingham (costume designer)
Lucy Glassbrook (movement director)
Simon Money (company voice work)
Annemette Verspeak (company voice work)
Josh Cole Brown (lighting designer)
Livia Brewster (sound designer)
Levi Meehan Powell (video designer)

Blippi: The Musical – UK West End Tour 2022
“Blippi The Musical is a two-act comedy about a boy named Blippi who loves to play in the world while taking his viewers along for the ride. He inspires kids to explore their environment with curiosity and creativity, teaching them about responsibility through song and play.” – ticketmaster.com
Brought in to Setup and Operate Sound for Blippi’s 3 week stay at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue

Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief
As the half-blood son of a Greek god, Percy Jackson has newly discovered powers he can’t control, a destiny he doesn’t want, and a mythology textbook’s worth of monsters on his trail.
Designed, Installed and Operated Sound for this musical adaptation of a famous book by Rick Riordan
As well as this I had the chance to work on creating and programming video cues for the 4 foot tall video screen at the back of the set.

Summer Opera: Kurt Weill & Monteverdi
Production Assistant / Sound Engineer
Guildhall’s Opera department presents a collection of Monteverdi Madrigals, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Monteverdi, and Der Zar lässt sich photographieren by Weill.
A photographic studio in Paris. News arrives that the Tsar is coming.
First performed in Leipzig in 1928, Weill’s one-act comedy was extremely popular in its day and on the German stage, part of the now rarely performed “Zeitoper” genre of music theatre.
The performance opens with music from 17th Century Italy: students from Guildhall’s Opera department perform a collection of Monteverdi Madrigals alongside Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, an operatic scena for three voices.

Pilgrims
Elinor Cook’s Pilgrims explores love, betrayal and adventure. Can love conquer ambition? And whose story will ultimately be remembered?
With Everest already conquered aged 18, Dan and Will’s latest challenge is a peak that’s never been scaled. As well as their struggles during the adrenaline-fuelled climb – one pulling back, the other pushing on – they also both love Rachel. But Rachel isn’t interested in waiting on the side-lines or being a character in someone else’s story, she’s out to make her own. Can love conquer ambition? And whose story will ultimately be remembered?
Georgia Green directs this fast-paced play about falling in love, betrayal and adventure by Elinor Cook,
Creatives:
Georgia Green director
Cory Shipp designer
Rajiv Pattani lighting designer
Oliver Brown sound designer
Reuben Cohen video designer
Diane Alison-Mitchell movement director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Lucy Rodgers costume designer
Adi Currie assistant lighting designer

Urinetown
A twenty-year drought and chronic water shortage. Public toilets privatised in a government attempt to control water consumption. Urinetown: a tale of greed, corruption and revolution.
Installed, Programmed and Operated Urinetown – The Musical

Cinderella Pantomime
Role: Dep. Sound Operator / Dep. LX & Video Operator

Evidence Based Policing Conference 2021
Vision mixer cutting between 2 PTZ camera, 1 Manual OP & PC running powerpoint for the presenter

Company
Designed, Installed and operated sound for Irvings production of Company by Stephen Sondheim.
Director: Jermy Warbrick
Musical Director: Nicola Brazier
Lighting Desiger: Sky Skylar
Sound Designer: Oliver Brown

Little Mermaid
Production Electrician for Finborough Schools production of Little Mermaid Jr

Addams Family
Designed, Installed and operated the lighting for finborough schools production of Addams Family, This included all power distribution and managment

A Royal Night In
Broadcast Engineer for this fundraising event to help save Theatre Royal Bury st Edmunds during Covid-19

Aladdin Charity Panto
Assisting Finboroughs Alevel class of 2020 by operating sound for the hcarity panto production of Aladdin

Evita
Follow Spot Operator

Legally Blonde
Designed, Installed and operated Legally Blonde for SYPT (Suffolk Young People’s Theatre)
The show contained a 13 Piece Band + 12 Radio Mics

Cabaret
Designed Installed and Ran sound for Conservatoire East’s Production of Cabaret