Rob Kaplowitz

Biography
Rob is a composer and sound designer for theatre, film and television. He mainly focuses on theatre, however. Rob's experience spans the country and levels of industry, from Broadway to the smallest of off-off Broadway venues, and from New England to California. He has received an OBIE (off-Broadway) award for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design ('06/'07).

He has completed 400+ designs and/or compositions for theatre, and is the creator of Kennedy Center ACTF sound masterclass. He is a five-college lecturer and has taught at NYU, Hampshire, UMass Amherst, Smith, Mt. Holyoke and Amherst Colleges. As a guest lecturer at all 5 Colleges, rotating through campuses, Rob focuses on the conceptual and collaborative nature of sound design and composition for theatre.

Education
Rob received a BFA in Theatre, with a Production &amp; Design focus, 1991 — 1994, at New York University. He also completed a residencies as a sound designer for the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference (2000-2004); the Sundance Theatre Institute, White Oak (2007, Song For New York); Utah (2007, Untitled Lucretia Borgia Project); and PlayPENN 2009: Francis Ya-Chu Cohwing's "410 Gone", Arden Kass' "Appetite", and Michael Hollinger's "Ghost Writer".

Fall 2009
IA-0323-1 Advanced Sound Design for Theatre

Spring 2008
IA-0256-1 Sound Design for Theatre

Research and Interests
Rob has a number of specialties including:


 * Compositional skills - musical styles from Hip Hop to Rondo and everything in between.
 * Reinforcement skills - Musicals and Plays - both subtle/transparent and big &amp; rockin'
 * Sound Design skills - focused mainly on soundscaping, but not in realistic terms - on finding ways to heighten given moments in the play by re-imagining the naturalistic soundscapes into rhythmic, melodic or tonal patterns that do more than simply raising the noisefloor...

Current Projects
Rob plans to complete two full length musical works in progress, and intends to become involved in more and deeper collaborations with great artists. He has recently worked on sound design for a number of productions including Geometry Of Fire, September Shoes, Winter's Tale, Aeneas, and The Golem.

Additional Information
Rob has a website that is still under construction, but it's full of useful information about his work, as well as samples the sound design he has done and has available for people who wish the work with him. To view the site, click here (also linked above).