CHRISTOPHER
SHUTT (Sound Designer)
SHUTT (Sound Designer)
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Christopher Shutt trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He was Head of Sound at the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Court Theatre, then Sound Supervisor at the National Theatre and he now works freelance. He has won numerous awards, including a Tony for War Horse.
‘A lot of our job is to not be audible at all – silence is so effective.’ Continue reading the interview here: https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/interviews/2019/sound-designer-christopher-shutt-a-lot-of-our-job-is-to-not-be-audible-at-all-silence-is-so-effective/
Photo by Mark Howe |
NATIONAL THEATRE
| Hansard | Lyttelton | Simon Godwin |
| Peter Gynt | Olivier/Festival Theatre Edinburgh | Jonathan Kent |
| Top Girls | Lyttelton | Lyndsey Turner |
| Antony and Cleopatra | Olivier | Simon Godwin |
| Julie | Lyttelton | Carrie Cracknell |
| John | Dorfman | James Macdonald |
| St George and the Dragon | Olivier | Lyndsey Turner |
| Twelfth Night | Olivier | Simon Godwin |
| Here We Go | Lyttelton | Dominic Cooke |
| Light Shining in Buckinghamshire | Lyttelton | Lyndsey Turner |
| The Beaux' Stratagem | Olivier | Simon Godwin |
| Man and Superman | Lyttelton | Simon Godwin |
| The James Plays (I & II) | NT Scotland and NT Olivier | Laurie Sansom |
| From Morning To Midnight | Lyttelton | Melly Still |
| Strange Interlude | Lyttelton | Simon Godwin |
| Timon of Athens | Olivier | Nicholas Hytner |
| The Last of the Haussmans | Lyttelton | Howard Davies |
| The Comedy of Errors | Olivier | Dominic Cooke |
| Emperor and Galilean | Olivier | Jonathan Kent |
| Or You Could Kiss Me | Cottesloe | Neil Bartlett |
| The White Guard | Lyttelton | Howard Davies |
| Really Old, Like Forty-Five | Cottesloe | Anna Mackmin |
| Dido, Queen of Carthage | Cottesloe | James Macdonald |
| Burnt by the Sun | Lyttelton | Howard Davies |
| Every Good Boy Deserves Favour | Olivier | Tom Morris & Felix Barrett |
| The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other | Lyttelton | James Macdonald |
| War Horse | Olivier | Marianne Elliott & Tom Morris |
| Philistines | Lyttelton | Howard Davies |
| Happy Days | Lyttelton | Deborah Warner |
| Therese Raquin | Lyttelton | Marianne Elliott |
| The Seagull | Lyttelton | Katie Mitchell |
| Burn/ Chatroom/ Citizenship | Cottesloe | Anna Mackmin |
| Coram Boy | Olivier | Melly Still |
| A Dream Play | Cottesloe | Katie Mitchell |
| A Minute Too Late | Lyttelton | Simon McBurney |
| Measure for Measure | Lyttelton | Simon McBurney |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Lyttelton | Howard Davies |
| Play Without Words | Lyttelton | Matthew Bourne |
| The PowerBook | Lyttelton | Deborah Warner |
| Humble Boy | Cottesloe | John Caird |
| Howard Katz | Cottesloe | Patrick Marber |
| Life x 3 | Cottesloe | Matthew Warchus |
| Hamlet | Lyttelton | John Caird |
| Albert Speer | Lyttelton | Trevor Nunn |
| Not About Nightingales | Cottesloe | Trevor Nunn |
| The Darker Face of the Earth | Cottesloe | James Kerr |
| Death of a Salesman | Lyttelton | David Thacker |
| Chips With Everything | Lyttelton | Howard Davies |
| Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Cottesloe | Tim Supple |
| The Homecoming | Lyttelton | Roger Michell |
| Machinal | Lyttelton | Stephen Daldry |
ROYAL COURT
| Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp | Royal Court | James Macdonald |
| ear for eye | Royal Court | debbie tucker green |
| a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone | Royal Court | debbie tucker green |
| The Sewing Group | Royal Court | Stewart Laing |
| Faith Healer | Royal Court | Lyndsey Turner |
| Escaped Alone | Royal Court | James Macdonald |
| hang | Royal Court | debbie tucker green |
| Love and Information | Royal Court | James Macdonald |
| Kin | Royal Court | Jeremy Herrin |
| Aunt Dan and Lemon | Royal Court | Dominic Cooke |
| Bliss | Royal Court | Joe Hill-Gibbons |
| Free Outgoing | Royal Court | Indhu Rubasingham |
| The Arsonists | Royal Court | Ramin Grey |
| Serious Money | Royal Court | Max Stafford Clark/Simon Curtis |
| Road | Royal Court | Simon Curtis |
DONMAR
| Far Away | Donmar | Lyndsey Turner |
| St Nicholas | Donmar Dryden Street | Simon Evans |
| Aristocrats | Donmar | Lyndsey Turner |
| Knives in Hens | Donmar | Yaël Farber |
| Saint Joan | Donmar | Josie Rourke |
| Privacy | Donmar | Josie Rourke |
| The Same Deep Water As Me | Donmar | John Crowley |
| Philadelphia, Here I Come! | Donmar | Lyndsey Turner |
| The Prince of Homburg | Donmar | Jonathan Munby |
| Piaf | Donmar | Jamie Lloyd |
| The Man Who Had All the Luck | Donmar | Sean Holmes |
| Phaedre | Donmar | Tom Cairns |
| Hecuba | Donmar | Jonathan Kent |
OLD VIC
| Other Desert Cities | Old Vic | Lindsay Posner |
| The Playboy of the Western World | Old Vic | John Crowley |
| All About My Mother | Old Vic | Tom Cairns |
| A Moon for the Misbegotten | Old Vic | Howard Davies |
| Life x 3 | Old Vic | Matthew Warchus |
ALMEIDA
| The Twilight Zone | Almeida/Ambassadors | Richard Jones |
| The Treatment | Almeida | Lyndsey Turner |
| Ruined | Almeida | Indhu Rubasingha |
| Judgement Day | Almeida | James Macdonald |
| The Earthly Paradise | Almeida | Robert Delamere |
LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
| Desire Under the Elms | Lyric Hammersmith | Sean Holmes |
| Blasted | Lyric Hammersmith | Sean Holmes |
HAMPSTEAD THEATRE
| Botticelli in the Fire | Hampstead Theatre | Blanche McIntyre |
| Wild | Hampstead Theatre | James Macdonald |
| A Human Being Died That Night | Hampstead Theatre Studio | Jonathan Munby |
| And No More Shall We Part | Hampstead Theatre Studio | James Macdonald |
| For Once | Hampstead Theatre Studio | Orla O’Loughlin |
WEST END AND LONDON
| King Hedley II | Theatre Royal Stratford East | Nadia Fall |
| Nightfall | Bridge Theatre | Laurie Sansom |
| Frozen | Theatre Royal Haymarket | Jonathan Munby |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Regent's Park | Timothy Sheader |
| The Merchant of Venice | Shakespeare's Globe | Jonathan Munby |
| The Entertainer/Romeo and Juliet/The Winter's Tale/ Harlequinade (Kenneth Branagh Season) | Garrick Theatre | Rob Ashford/Kenneth Branagh |
| The Seagull | Regent's Park | Matthew Dunster |
| Hamlet | Duke of York's | Lyndsey Turner |
| Thyestes | Arcola Theatre | Polly Findlay |
| Nocturnal | Gate Theatre | Lyndsey Turner |
| The School for Scandal | Barbican, Amsterdam | Deborah Warner |
| Shoes | Sadler’s Wells | Richard Thomas/Stephen Mears |
| War Horse | New London | Marianne Elliott/Tom Morris |
| Julius Caesar | Barbican | Deborah Warner |
| Humble Boy | Gielgud Theatre | John Caird |
| Antarctica | Savoy Theatre | Richard Rose |
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
| Timon of Athens | RSC/ New York/Washington | Simon Godwin |
| Macbeth | RSC/Barbican | Polly Findlay |
| Hamlet | RSC | Simon Godwin |
| Oppenheimer | RSC | Angus Jackson |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | RSC | Simon Godwin |
| Wendy and Peter Pan | RSC | Jonathan Munby |
| Candide | RSC | Lyndsey Turner |
| Twelfth Night/The Comedy of Errors | RSC | David Farr |
| The Tempest | RSC | Amir Nizar Zuabi |
| King Lear | RSC | David Farr |
| Romeo and Juliet | RSC | Neil Bartlett |
| Noughts and Crosses | RSC | Dominic Cooke |
| King John | RSC | Josie Rourke |
| Much Ado About Nothing | RSC | Marianne Elliott |
REGIONAL THEATRE
| Peter Pan | Birmingham Rep | Liam Steel |
| The Country Girls | Chichester Festival Theatre | Lisa Blair |
| The Hypochondriac | Ustinov Studio, Bath | James Macdonald |
| The Father | Ustinov Studio, Bath | James Macdonald |
| Crave/4:48 Psychosis | Sheffield Crucible | Charlotte Gwinner |
| Macbeth | Manchester Intl. Festival | Kenneth Branagh/Rob Ashford |
| Drum Belly | Abbey Theatre, Dublin | Sean Holmes |
| The Caretaker | Sheffield Crucible/Tricycle | Jamie Lloyd |
| Bull | Sheffield Crucible | Clare Lizziemore |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Bristol Old Vic | Tom Morris |
| Bacchae/Blood Wedding | Northampton | Laurie Sansom |
| Good | Royal Exchange Manchester | Polly Findlay |
| Man of Aran (Live Film Soundtrack) | Druid Galway | Paul Keogan |
| Alice | Sheffield Crucible | Lyndsey Turner |
| Far Away | Bristol Old Vic | Simon Godwin |
| Beyond the Horizon/Spring Storm | Northampton | Laurie Sansom |
| The House of Special Purpose | Chichester | Howard Davies |
| Little Otik | National Theatre of Scotland | Matthew Lenton |
| The Bacchae | National Theatre of Scotland | John Tiffany |
| Riders to the Sea | ENO | Fiona Shaw |
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE AND TOURS
| Tiger Bay - the Musical | Artscape, Cape Town/ Wales Millennium Centre | Melly Still |
| A Disappearing Number | Barbican, European | Tour Complicité |
| The Elephant Vanishes | London, New York, Japan, Paris | Tour Complicité |
| Mnemonic | London, New York, World Tour | Tour Complicité |
| The Noise of Time | London, New York | Tour Complicité |
| The Street of Crocodiles | Tour Complicité | |
| The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol | Tour Complicité | |
| The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Tour Complicité |
BROADWAY AND OFF BROADWAY
| Timon of Athens | Theatre For a New Audience | Simon Godwin |
| A Human Being Died That Night | BAM | Jonathan Munby |
| Macbeth | The Armory, New York | Kenneth Branagh/Rob Ashford |
| Love and Information | Minetta Lane Theater, New Yor | James Macdonald |
| War Horse | Vivian Beaumont Theatre | Marianne Elliott/Tom Morris |
| All My Sons | Gerald Schonfeld Theatre | Simon McBurney |
| The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Michael Schimmel Centre | Simon McBurney |
| Happy Days | Harvey Theatre | Deobrah Warner |
| A Moon for the Misbegotten | Brooks Atkinson Theatre | Howard Davies |
| Coram Boy | Imperial Theatre | Melly Still |
| Humble Boy | Manhattan Theatre Club | John Caird |
| Not About Nightingales | Circle in the Square Theatre | Trevor Nunn |
| Mnemonic | John Jay Theatre | Simon McBurney |
AWARDS
| Tony Award ( Best Sound Design in a Play) | War Horse | |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards ( Best Play) | A Disappearing Number | |
| New York Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Sound Design) | Mnemonic | |
| Lucille Lortel Award (Off-Broadway) | Mnemonic | |
| New York Drama Desk Award( Outstanding Sound Design) | Not About Nightingales |
NOMINATIONS
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Olivier Awards: Coram Boy, War Horse, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Piaf Lucille Lortel Awards: Love and Information New York Drama Desk Awards: Love and Information |