Richard Woodbury is a composer and sound designer working in theater, dance and media arts. Richard has composed numerous scores for dance including Short Stories for Hedwig Dances, Stupormarket, Monument and Overflow for The Seldoms, and Pentimento for The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. He has also performed live with The Merce Cunningham and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Companies. His work for theater includes music and/or sound design for Tony Award winning Broadway productions of August: Osage County, A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Death of a Salesman, and The Young Man from Atlanta as well as numerous productions for Chicago’s renowned Goodman (where he is Resident Sound Designer) and Steppenwolf Theaters and theatres across the United States, Canada and Europe. Richard has received Joseph Jefferson, Helen Hayes, Ovation, IRNE, and NAACP Awards for outstanding sound design, and the Ruth Page award for Outstanding Collaborative Artist, as well as nominations for New York Drama Desk awards. From 1980 through 2014 Richard served as Music Director at the Dance Center of Columbia College where he was an Associate Professor and “Distinguished Faculty Artist”. He now pursues his creative work exclusively.
Works: Short Stories (2006); Arch of Repose (2014)
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