CURRENT RESIDENCE: Los Angeles, California
YEAR JOINED ENSEMBLE: 1997
POSITION: Composer & Sound Designer
AMERICAN BLUES THEATER CREDITS
Six Corners; Grounded – Jeff Award for Sound Design; Illegal Use of Hands; Rantoul and Die; Tobacco Road – Jeff Award nomination for Production-midsize; Speech and Debate; Augusta; Half of Plenty; Kid Simple – Jeff Award for Sound Design; Quake; The Trip To Bountiful; Flung; A Lie of the Mind; Catch-22; Vick’s Boy; Working; The Mineola Twins; Medea; American Buffalo; The Skin of Our Teeth; Below the Belt; Pledge of Allegiance; One Day Only; & The Flight of The Phoenix.
ABOUT LINDSAY
Lindsay Jones is an award-winning composer and sound designer.
In theatre, he has been nominated for the Tony Awards of Best Score and Best Sound Design of a Play. His Broadway credits include Slave Play, The Nap, Bronx Bombers and A Time To Kill. His off-Broadway work has been heard at Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, MCC, Primary Stages, and many others. International credits include works at Noel Coward Theatre (West End), Royal Shakespeare Festival (UK), Stratford Festival (Canada), and many others. Lindsay has created music and sound for over 600 productions in regional theatres across the US. Awards include seven Joseph Jefferson Awards and twenty-four nominations, 2 ASCAP Plus Awards, two Ovation Awards and three nominations, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, a San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award and two nominations, as well as multiple nominations for Drama Desk Awards, Helen Hayes Awards, Barrymore Awards, and many others.
In film/television, he has created original score for over 35 projects, including HBO Films’ A Note Of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin, which won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subject. His work encompasses features like The View From Tall, Ash (directed by ABT Artistic Affiliate Tom Geraty), and The Brass Teapot; TV shows such as Sony Pictures’ series Family Practice for Lifetime Television, and full-length documentaries such as Hearing Voices and Cleaveland (directed by ABT Ensemble Emeriti member William Payne). His current movies are Dinosaur Discoveries, which is now playing at the Houston Museum of Nature Science and Surviving The Sleepover on Lifetime Television.
In podcasts, Lindsay’s most recent releases are the original scores to Star Wars: Tempest Breaker and All Start Superman for Penguin/Random House, and Marvel Wastelanders for Disney, starring Susan Sarandon, Timothy Busfield, and Stephen Lang. He is currently the in-house composer/sound designer for the Play On Shakespeare series for Next Chapter Podcasts. Other podcast and audio drama work includes A Streetcar Named Desire (starring Audra McDonald) for Audible, Wormwood (featuring Kevin Kline) for Real Jetpacks Productions, Hamlet for KPBS/The Old Globe, Gather for Playwrights Horizons, Twelfth Night and Measure For Measure for Chicago Shakespeare, and The Intersect for Micromass. Awards include a Webby Award, two Signal Awards (Gold) for his original music for Next Chapter Podcasts, and an Ambie Award for his score for Othello.
In education, Lindsay is currently an adjunct professor of sound design at University of North Carolina School Of The Arts where he teaches music history. Other universities where he’s taught include Yale, Juilliard, Northwestern, Purdue, DePaul, NYU, UCLA, UCSD, Syracuse, UC Irvine, Rutgers, University of Illinois, and Chapman.
In advocacy, Lindsay is a founding member and the co-chair of the executive board of Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA), and co-founded The Collaborator Party with John Gromada. He is also a founding member of NO MORE 10 Out Of 12’s, an advocacy group dedicated to safe working environments in theatre.
FUN FACT
Lindsay is the lead singer and bassist for The Nubile Thangs!, an over-the-top rock/R&B band based in Chicago, who played a sold out concert at American Blues Theater in April 2024.