Clients

Toxic Bag Productions is available for post-production and sound design for theater, video and independent films.
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Who we are.

Here are some of our clients:

Video/Film
  • CyberINK
    Audio/video production of "One Spirit" DVD, companion piece to "One Spirit" book.

  • Getting to Know, Inc.
    Sound design for educational cartoons:
    -- "Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists: Warhol"
    -- "Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists: Michelangelo"
    -- "Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists: Van Gogh" (American Library Association 2002 Notable Children's Video Award)
    -- "Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists: Rembrandt"
    -- "Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists: Da Vinci" (American Library Association 2004 Notable Children's Video Award)
    -- "Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents: George Washington"
    -- "Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents: John Adams"

    Sound design for children's video "How To Be An Older Brother Or Sister: What to Expect When It Happens To You."

    Mixing/sound effects for "Elements of Art: Line," "Elements of Art: Color" and "Elements of Art: Shape."

  • Chicago Dueling Pianos
    Shooting, editing, mixing and authoring demo DVD (2006).

  • Slunge Inc.
    Audio post-production and music composition for independent film "Dead to Rights" (2003).
    Location sound and audio post for independent film "December" (1999).

  • Illage Videot Productions
    Audio/video post for "Marillion: This Strange Tour Live in Milwaukee" (1998).

Theater
Sound designs and music composition by Joe Griffin
(collaborations noted individually)

  • Oakton Community College , Des Plaines, IL
    Sound design/Music composition for "Macbeth" (2008, dir. Mary Ringstad).

  • Moraine Valley Community College, Chicago
    Sound design/music composition for "Boy Gets Girl" (2008, dir. Craig Rosen).
    Sound design for "Barefoot in the Park" (2008, dir. Craig Rosen).
    Sound design for "Buried Child" (2007, dir. Michael Rice).
    Sound design for "The Comedy of Errors" (2007, dir. Craig Rosen).
    Sound design for "Life Is A Dream" (2007, dir. Craig Rosen).

  • Steep Theatre Company, Chicago
    Sound design for "Otherwise Engaged" (2007, dir. Michael Rice).
    Sound design for "Coronado" (co-designed with Steve Baldwin, 2007, dir. Kevin Gladish).

  • The House Theatre of Chicago, Chicago
    Sound design for "Ellen Under Glass" (2006, dir. Tommy Rapley).

  • Speaking Ring Theatre Company, Chicago
    Sound design for "The Diviners" (co-designed with Steve Baldwin, 2008, dir. Emily Korff).
    Sound design for Vitality V Playwriting Festival (co-designed with Steve Baldwin, 2007).
    Sound design for "The Past's Present" (co-designed with Steve Baldwin, 2007, dir. Mercedes Rohlfs).
    Sound design for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" (co-designed with Steve Baldwin, 2006, dir. Chuck Karavelas).
    Sound design for Tony Kushner's "A Bright Room Called Day" (2005, dir. Kevin Gladish).
    Sound effects for the Vitality One-Act Festival: "Circle Line" and "15 Minutes" (2005).

  • Halcyon Theatre Company, Chicago
    Sound design for "The Runner Stumbles" (co-designed with Steve Baldwin, 2006, dir. Kevin Gladish).

  • Chicago Directors Festival, Bailiwick Theatre, Chicago
    Sound effects editing for The Myth of Sisyphus (adapted from Albert Camus' essay The Myth of Sisyphus). (2006, dir. Elizabeth Margolius).
    Sound design for Ss (adapted from Franz Kafka's essay The Silence of the Sirens). (2005, dir. Elizabeth Margolius).

  • Shakespeare's Trousers, Chicago
    Musical arrangement for "Fancy Pants Flicker Show" (2005, dir. Tricia Noens).

  • The Side Project, Chicago
    Sound design for "Final Lonely Moments of a Suicide Bomber" (2004, dir. Kevin Gladish). listen to sample cue
    Sound design/Music composition for "Underwater: Reflections on a Dam" (2004, dir. Kerensa Peterson). listen to sample cue

  • Pirate Theatre, Palatine High School, Palatine, IL
    Sound design for "Blithe Spirit" (2006, dir. Chris Smith).
    Sound design elements for "Grease" (2004, dir. Chris Smith). listen to sample cue: the Drive-In movie.

  • Blues Wind Entertainment/Pirate Theatre, Palatine High School, Palatine, IL
    Sound design/music composition for "Re: Alice" (2004, dir. Chris Smith). listen to sample cue: Down the Rabbit-hole.
    Sound design/music composition for "Murder in Mirthburg" (2003, dir. Chris Smith). listen to sample cue: Mirthburg Theme

  • Keyhole Players, Chicago
    Sound design for "How We Grew Breasts Without Really Trying" (2003, dir. Kerensa Peterson).

  • Centerlight Voice and Sign Theatre, Deerfield, IL
    Music recording/mixing for "Nunsense" (1999, dir. Patti Lahey) and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" (2000, dir. Patti Lahey).

  • Effective Theatre Company/Musical Repertorie Theatre, Chicago
    Sound and video design for "Weird Romance" (1996, dir. L. Walter Stearns).

  • Ritual Theater Company, Chicago
    Sound recording/tech support for Howard Brenton's "Bloody Poetry" (1995).

Dance
  • The Humans, Chicago
    Sound design for "Let's Kill Our Sadness" (2007, chor. Rachel Bunting). Performed at The Canal Chapter's 2007 Artist Residency Exhibition, New York City

  • Momentum Sensorium, Chicago
    Sound design for "Pulp Vessel" (2007, chor. Helen Lee).

  • Adler Danztheatre, Chicago
    Sound design for "This Is Not A Pipe" (2006, dir. Ellyzabeth Adler).
    Sound design for "Unraveling" (in collaboration with Tim Hort), Women's Performance Arts Festival (2005, dir. Ellyzabeth Adler).
    Sound designs for Full Circle Festival including pieces by Lucia Mauro, Kerensa Peterson, Ellyzabeth Adler, Kari Wall and MK Victorson (2004/2005). listen to sample cue: Process.
    Music composition and sound design for "The Yellow Wallpaper" (in collaboration with Tim Hort and Brahm Fetterman, 2003, dir. Ellyzabeth Adler). listen to sample cue
    Sound design for "Ever Your Own, Edgar"(2003, dir. Ellyzabeth Adler).
Video Games

Corporate
  • CyberINK
    Sound design/integration for PowerPoint speeches



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