| Scott Burgess | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of North Texas |
| Occupation | Composer, Sound Designer |
| Spouse | Maia DeSanti |
Scott Burgess is a Washington, D.C.-based American audio engineer, composer, sound designer, voice over artist and performer. In the category of Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production, he is a ten-time nominee and a two-time winner of the Helen Hayes Award.[1]
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Burgess grew up in Texas and attended the University of North Texas from 1982 to 1985 in Denton, Texas. While an undergraduate student there, he studied jazz performance and musical composition as well as film and video production.[2]
After college, Burgess moved to Washington D.C. where he recorded and produced original music and sound-scapes for theatrical productions.[2] His original sound designs for theater are often created to comment explicitly on the action of the play, such as risqué movie quotes from John Wayne or the double entendre of Cole Porter's Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) for a provocative play such as Psychopathia Sexualis.[3]
Burgess has been called The Music Man by The Washington Post because he composes sound designs and film scores based on a wide variety of instruments, influences and sampled sounds.[4] In 2004, Burgess composed a film score for the documentary Crucible of War, about a refugee from Yugoslavia haunted by his past who returns to his post-war homeland.[5][6]
| 1997 | Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | |
| Quills, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company | Nomination | |
| 1998 | Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | |
| Romeo and Juliet, Folger Shakespeare Library | Award Recipient | |
| 1998 | Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | |
| Travels WIth My Aunt, Rep Stage | Nomination | |
| 1999 | Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | |
| Seven Guitars, The Studio Theatre | Nomination | |
| 2000 | Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | |
| The Adding Machine, Washington Jewish Theatre | Nomination | |
| 2001 | Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | |
| The Mystery of Irma Vep (a penny dreadful), Rep Stage | Nomination | |
| 2001 | Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | |
| The Tempest, Folger Theatre | Award Recipient | |
| 2003 | Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | |
| Knoyugogh, Little Globe Theater | Nomination | |
| 2003 | Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | |
| Othello, Folger Theatre | Nomination | |
| 2004 | Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | |
| Elizabeth the Queen, Folger Theatre | Nomination |