Vincent Olivieri

Vincent Olivieri is a professor of sound design at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine. He has designed sound and composed music for productions around the world, with recent credits at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam.

On Broadway, his credits include the design and score for High and contributions to August Wilson’s Radio Golf. His work has also been heard at The Public Theater, Second Stage, 59E59, and New York Theatre Workshop, as well as at regional theaters including the Guthrie, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Yale Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, and Pittsburgh Public Theater. Internationally, his designs have been presented in Romania, Italy, China, South Korea, and at the Prague Quadrennial.

Olivieri served three years as resident sound designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where he designed for the regular season and the Humana Festival of New American Plays, premiering works by Gina Gionfriddo, Theresa Rebeck, Adam Rapp, Charles Mee, and many others. He is especially passionate about new work development, spatial audio, and interdisciplinary collaboration, having created original designs and scores for world premieres by Keith Josef Adkins, Lauren Gunderson, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Neil LaBute, Anna Ziegler, and Bryan Reynolds, among others.

Beyond the theater, his sound design and original music have appeared in film, including Bourn Kind, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. He has taught, lectured, and led workshops at institutions such as Juilliard, Yale University, Auburn University, and UMass Amherst. An active member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), he contributes regularly to its Sound Commission and the Gateway Program.

Olivieri holds a B.A. in mathematics with a minor in music performance from the University of Richmond and an M.F.A. in sound design from the Yale School of Drama. More about his work can be found at soundandstage.net