Toxic Bag Productions, Inc.

Theatre Sound Design

Since 2003, Toxic Bag has produced sound designs for many Chicago area theatre companies, including Speaking Ring Theatre Company, Steep Theatre Company, House Theatre of Chicago, Halcyon Theatre Company, Moraine Valley Community College, Oakton Community College and Pirate Theatre/Blues Wind Entertainment.

Reviews of our theatrical sound designs.

 


Selected Companies and Shows (Designs by Joe Griffin unless otherwise noted)

  • Hobo Junction Productions, Chicago
    Sound design and music orchestration (with Mike Przygoda) for "The Regulars" (2010, dir. Josh Zagoren).

  • WNEP, Chicago
    Sound design for "The (edward) Hopper Project" (2010, dir. Don Hall).

  • Oakton Community College , Des Plaines, IL
    Sound design/music composition for "Cupid & Psyche" (2008, dir. Tony Churchill).
    Sound design/music composition for "Macbeth" (2008, dir. Mary Ringstad). Sound design sample

  • Moraine Valley Community College, Chicago
    Sound design for "Macbeth" (2010, dir. Craig Rosen).
    Sound design for "Machinal" (2010, dir. Craig Rosen).
    Sound design for "Evil Dead: The Musical" (2009, dir. Tommy Hensel).
    Sound design/music composition for "As You Like It" (2009, dir. David Soria). Sound design sample
    Sound design for "Grease" (2008, dir. Craig Rosen).
    Sound design for "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)" (2008, dir. Craig Rosen).
    Sound design/music composition for "Boy Gets Girl" (2008, dir. Craig Rosen). Sound design sample
    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). Sound design sample

  • Promethean Theatre Ensemble , Chicago, IL
    Sound design/Music composition for "Measure For Measure " (2009, dir. June Eubanks). Sound design sample

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

  • 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). Sound design sample

  • Speaking Ring Theatre Company, Chicago
    Sound design for "The Diviners" (co-designed with Steve Baldwin, 2008, dir. Emily Korff). Sound design sample
    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 sample
    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 design sample
    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). Sound design sample

  • 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).
    Sound design/Music composition for "Underwater: Reflections on a Dam" (2004, dir. Kerensa Peterson).

  • 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).

  • Blues Wind Entertainment/Pirate Theatre, Palatine High School, Palatine, IL
    Sound design/music composition for "Re: Alice" (2004, dir. Chris Smith). Sound design sample
    Sound design/music composition for "Murder in Mirthburg" (2003, dir. Chris Smith).

  • 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 Designs by Joe Griffin



  • 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 "The Something that Washes..." (2008, chor. Helen Lee). Performed at Looptopia, Chicago
    Sound design for "Pulp Vessel" (2007, chor. Helen Lee). Performed at Looptopia, Chicago

  • 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). Sound Design Sample: Process.
    Music composition and sound design for "The Yellow Wallpaper" (in collaboration with Tim Hort and Brahm Fetterman, 2003, updated and remounted 2008. dir. Ellyzabeth Adler). Sound Design Sample
    Sound design for "Ever Your Own, Edgar" (2003, dir. Ellyzabeth Adler).


    Show photos by: Tony Adams, Sergi Bosch, Michael Brownlee, Lee Miller, Chris Smith, Ian Zywica.
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