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Tosin Olufolabi

Tosin Olufolabi (Sound Design) (she/her) is a sound designer, deviser, facilitator, and performer who received her education at the University of Richmond. After internships at two regional theaters, Berkshire Theatre Group, and Barrington Stage Company, she began professionally designing at SPARC, a children’s theater in Richmond VA. After graduating, she performed and sound designed at Raleigh Little Theatre in Stick Fly and dog & pony dc’s Beertown and later joined dog & pony dc as a company member. Then she was selected as the 2016 – 2017 sound apprentice for Olney Theatre Center where she assistant designed Proof. Since becoming a freelance artist her work includes NYC: Stargazers (Page 73); Bite Me (WP Theater). REGIONAL: The Thanksgiving Play (Steppenwolf Theatre); Gloria (2018 Helen Hayes Nomination for Outstanding Sound Design for a Hayes Production); There’s Always the Hudson and Hi, Are You Single?; Incendiary; The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes (Woolly Mammoth); Ain’t No Mo (Woolly Mammoth/Baltimore Center Stage); Life is a Dream (Baltimore Center Stage); Crying on Television, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, The Sound Inside, The Chinese Lady, Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Everyman Theater); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play; it’s not a trip it’s a journey (Round House Theatre); Sense & Sensibility (The Village); Moses, Fires in the Mirror (Theater J); The Thanksgiving Play (Olney Theatre Center); A Wind in the Door (Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences). OTHER: Lovers’ Vows (We Happy Few); My Barking Dog (Edge of the Universe Players 2); She Sings Light, Hatpin Panic, & Shakespeare’s Worst (Capital Fringe); Ties That Bind, Caucasian Chalk Circle, & Antigone (Catholic University); God is Dead & April is Getting Married (Three Muses); Peepshow (dog & pony dc); Abortion Road Trip, & Soldier Poet (Theatre Prometheus); Lela & Co. (Factory 449); Blacktop Sky (York College). Assistant design credits include Sally and Tom, Manahatta, & Plays of the Plague Year (The Public); Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (The Kennedy Center TYA); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest & Baggage (Gallaudet University); Zomo the Rabbit: A Hip-Hop Creation Myth, Thumbelina, Anatole & Davy Copperfield (Imagination Stage); Still Life with Rocket (Theater Alliance); and Proof (Olney Theatre Center). Most of her experience as a performer was in devised shows, such as Peepshow & DISCOVERED! (dog and pony dc), and Treasure Island (We Happy Few). Furthermore, she has designed two short films, Midheaven, an art film about life in Atlanta, and Silver Bullet, a dreamy animation.