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Justin Schmitz
Sound Designer and Composer

CTC: Design Mentor 2021, Dark Radio, Frankenstein, Transit, Assistant Design: Comedy Of Errors, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Clybourne Park, 2013 Sound Design Fellow. Friends of Chautauqua Theatre - Board member- VP Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, Accessibility, former VP Community.

Off-Broadway: Associate Designer: Handbagged (59E59), Cow Play (Dixon Place Theatre),

Regional: Anything Goes (City Springs Theatre Company) Eubie, Jitney, Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope, Home, Nina Simone Four Women (St.Louis Black Rep Theatre Company) Spring Awakening, Caroline Or Change, Handbagged, Miss Bennett: Christmas At Pemberly (Round House Theatre Company) Jane Anger (Shakespeare Theatre Company) Georgie (Signature Theatre Company) Carmen An Afro Cuban Jazz Musical (Olney Theatre Company) Don't Let Pigeon Drive The Bus, Me Jane, Darius and Twig (The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences) I Dream (Opera Carolina)

Film: Home (The St.Louis Black Rep Theatre Company)

Awards: 2022 Rada Distinguished Alumni Award (The University of WI) Helen Hayes Nominations for The Wild Party (Constellation Theatre Company) I Call My Brothers (Forum Theatre), 2015-2016 Kenan Fellowship with the Kennedy Center, 2013 Sound Design Fellow- Chautauqua Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival Region 3 Award for Best Realized Sound Design, The Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival Certificates of Merit for Sound Design for A MidSummer Night's Dream, Eurydice, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Inspecting Carol.

Education: MFA Sound Design and Composing- The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, BA: The University of Wisconsin - La Crosse