Robert Kaplowitz
Five-College Visiting Lecturer in Sound Design

BFA: NYU

Robert has designed and/or written music for hundreds of exciting and quirky projects in and around New York City. He was given an OBIE award for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design for his work in the '06/'07 season (he is one of only three sound designers to have received this award). Select favorites design and/or composition gigs include: The Bill T. Jones musical Fela at 37 Arts, Tracy Scott Wilson’s The Story and John Beluso's The Poor Itch at the Public (Lortel Nomination ‘05), The Jo Adler/Mabou Mines residency of Request Concert, Anne Washburn’s The Internationalist (Lortel
Nomination ’07), Kia Corthron’s Light, Raise the Roof at NYTW, Heather McDonald’s An Almost Holy Picture on
Broadway (Roundabout), Adam Bock’s The Thugs (a co-design with Jeremy Lee) for SoHo Rep, Eric Jackson’s Carrie with Theatre Couture, and Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig, Some Girls, and Distance From Here, all for MCC. He was the first professional resident sound designer at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference (2000-2004), and a Sundance Fellow twice (with Mabou Mines Song For New York at White Oak, and with Bradford Louryk’s Lucretia Borgia Project at the Theatre Lab). He created the Sound Design Master Class for the Kennedy Center's American College Theater Festival, a weeklong residency at the Kennedy Center that he still runs annually, and taught design in collaboration with Mark Bennett for 2 years at NYU. He has a spectacular wife and stunning son, both of whom rock his world on a daily basis