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G Clausen
Sound Design & Composition
About
G Clausen is an award-winning sound designer and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. He won the 2025 Broadway World Off-Broadway Best Sound Design Award for House of McQueen, starring Luke Newton.
Other award nominations include: 2024 St. Louis Theater Circle Award for Twisted Melodies at St. Louis Repertory, 2022 Jeff Award for Queen of the Night at Victory Gardens Theater, 2023 Cloris Award and Broadway World Award for The Piano Lesson at Pyramid Theatre Company, 2019 Cloris Award and Broadway World Award for Too Heavy for Your Pocket at Pyramid Theatre Company, 2019 Cloris Award for Intimate Apparel at Pyramid Theatre Company, 2019 Broadway World Award for How I Learned What I Learned at Pyramid Theatre Company, 2019 Broadway World Award for Native Son at Playmakers Repertory, and 2019 Broadway World Award for Skeleton Crew at Playmakers Repertory.
G specializes in building immersive worlds with cinematic soundscapes.
House of McQueen
“A bump of cocaine cues a kaleidoscope of electronic stimuli, flashily lit by Robert Wierzel, with thumping electronic music provided by sound designer G Clausen.” - Zachary Stewart, Theatermania
“[Lights and projections] collaborate with sound designer G Clausen to unsettlingly simulate the jolts of electroshock therapy.”- David Barbour, Lighting and Sound America
Twisted Melodies
“G Clausen’s sound design creates the voices in Hathaway’s head, the mysterious banging on his door. It startles and disorients Hathaway, and the audience a little too. The design and technical work impresses.”- Bob Wilcox, HEC
“The nightmarish tricks, which jarringly distort the very playing space itself, were designed by Mike Tutaj and enhanced by the unsettling sound design of G Clausen.”- Richard T. Green, Talkin’ Broadway
“The audience is treated by Hathaway as apparently another hallucination, but a good one–supportive, instead of the menacing visual and auditory ones he experiences throughout the show, represented through the truly astounding technical effects of lighting designer Xavier Pierce, sound designer G Clausen, and projections designer Mike Tutaj.”- Michelle Kenyon, Snoop’s Theatre Thoughts
Queen of the Night
"G Clausen's sound design only leads us deeper into the woods with creature tones that encompass the entire theater. And the scene change soundtrack is so enjoyable, it should be available for purchase in the lobby!"- Scott Gryder, Picks in Six
“With a vegetal scenic design by Sydney Lynne that snakes its way into the audience and an eerie, enveloping soundscape designed by G Clausen…”- Kris Vire, Chicago Sun-Times
PYG or The Midedumacation of Dorian Belle
“G Clausen's sound design is breathtaking in its geographic and historical scope.” Sarah Murphy, Broadway World
“The original compositions were smart and strong, often picking up on common themes and harkening back to popular music.”- Elle Marie Sullivan, MD Theatre Guide
“Sound Designer and Composer G Clausen is as responsible as [Tearrance Arvelle] Chisholm is for the sense that this is a play about three men who are nowhere trying to get somewhere fast, via soundtrack.”- Barbara Mackay, DC Theater Arts
Sonnets for an Old Century
“Tying the work together was the sound design of G Clausen. It was sometimes subtle, sometimes jarring, sometimes beautiful, sometimes distressing. There were times when I took of my headphones to determine whether there was ambient noise in the show or if my refrigerator was running loudly. The droning noises that ran through were as evocative of the space and setting as Farrar’s design, a soundscape to mimic and echo and complement the landscape.”- Genevieve Trainor, Little Village
Projects
2026 Sound Designer, HAIR, Tantrum Theatre
Dir. Robert Barry Fleming
2026 Sound Designer, The Fire This Time Festival, The Victoria Theatre at The Apollo
Dir. Ken Matt-Martin
2025 Sound Designer/Composer, Torera, Women’s Project
Dir. Tatiana Pandiani
2025 Sound Designer/Composer, House of McQueen, Aurora Productions
Dir. Sam Helfrich
2025 Sound Designer, Small Ball, Philadelphia Theatre Company
Dir. Taibi Magar and Tyler Dobrowsky
2025 Sound Designer, A Freeky Introduction, Atlantic Theatre Company
Dir. Dennis A. Allen
2025 Sound Designer, Deep Azure, Howard Theater
Dir. Nsangou Njikam (Staged Reading)
2024 Sound Designer, Peter Panto, People’s Light Theatre
Dir. Bill Fennelly
2024 Sound Designer/Composer, Crumbs From the Table of Joy, Playmakers Repertory
Dir. Tia James
2024 Sound Designer, Syncing Ink, The Victoria Theatre at The Apollo
Dir. Awoye Timpo
2024 Sound Designer, The Crucible, Western Connecticut State University
Dir. Donna Bradby
2024 Sound Designer/Composer, I Am Deliverd’t, Actors Theatre of Louisville
Dir. Robert Barry Fleming
2024 Sound Designer/Composer, The Mountaintop, Riverside Theatre
Dir. Curtis Jackson
2024 Sound Designer/Composer, I Am Deliverd’t, Dallas Theatre Company
Dir. Robert Barry Fleming
2023 Sound Designer, Twisted Melodies, St. Louis Repertory
Dir. Reggie D. White
2023 Sound Designer, Murder on the Orient Express, Mary Washington University
Dir. Marc Williams
2023 Sound Designer, Pride and Prejudice, Mary Washington University
Dir. Marc Williams
2023 Sound Designer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oklahoma City University
Dir. Lance Marsh
2023 Sound Designer, The Revolutionists, Triad Stage
Dir. Sarah Hankins
2023 Sound Designer, Men on Boats, University of Mary Washington
Dir. Marc Williams
2023 Sound Designer, The Piano Lesson, Pyramid Theatre Company
Dir. Ken-Matt Martin
2022 Sound Designer, She Kills Monsters, Oklahoma City University
Dir. Amy Osatinskii
2022 Sound Designer, Rebellious, Triad Stage
Dir. Donna Bradby
2022 Sound Designer, Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea, Rhinoleap Productions
Dir. Samip Raval
2022 Sound Designer/Composer, How I Learned What I Learned, Playmakers Repertory
Dir. Tia James
2022 Sound Designer, Welcome to Arroyo’s, Cape Fear Regional Theatre
Dir. Jose Zayas
2022 Sound Designer, TRAPT, Playwrights’ Center
Dir. Ken Matt-Martin
2022 Sound Designer, Queen of the Night, Victory Gardens
Dir. Ken-Matt Martin
2021 Sound Designer, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, University of Mary Washington
Dir. Gregg Stull
2021 Sound Designer/Composer, My Wonderful Birthday Suit, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte
Dir. Gloria Bond Clunie
2021 Sound Designer, Been There Done That, Theatre of Others
Dir. Colette Cullen (Radio Play)
2021 Sound Designer, Nickel and Dimed, University of Mary Washington
Dir. Marc Williams
2021 Sound Designer, Sonnets for an Old Century, Riverside Theatre
Dir. Adam Knight (Filmed)
2021 Sound Designer/Composer, My Wonderful Birthday Suit, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte
Dir. Gloria Bond Clunie (Filmed)
2020 Sound Designer, Call for the Wailing Women, Perceptions Theatre and Black Lives Black Words
Dir. Valerie Curtis-Newton (Zoom Play)
2020 Sound Designer, Two Wolves and A Lamb, Triad Stage,
Dir. Preston Lane
2019 Sound Designer/Composer, A Christmas Carol, Triad Stage
Dir. Sarah Hankins
2019 Sound Designer/Composer, Native Son, Playmakers Repertory
Dir. Colette Roberts
2019 Sound Designer, Too Heavy For Your Pocket, Pyramid Theatre Company
Dir. Tiffany Johnson
2019 Sound Designer, How I Learned What I Learned, Pyramid Theatre Company
Dir. Tiffany Johnson
2019 Sound Designer/Composer, PYG: Or the Misedumacation of Dorian Belle, Studio Theatre
Dir. Tearrance Arvelle Chisolm
2019 Sound Designer, Working, Guilford College
Dir. Sarah Hankins
2019 Sound Designer, How I Learned What I Learned, Riverside Theatre
Dir. Tiffany Johnson
Associate Design:
2025 Associate Sound Designer, Bat Boy, NYCC Encores!
Sound Designer: Nevin Steinberg
Dir. Alex Timbers
2025 Associate Sound Designer, Urinetown, NYCC Encores!
Sound Designer: Nevin Steinberg
Dir. Teddy Bergman
2022 Associate Sound Designer, The Tattooed Lady, Philadelphia Theatre Company
Sound Designer: Nevin Steinberg
Dir. Ellie Hayman
2022 Associate Sound Designer, Goddess, Berkeley Repertory
Sound Designer: Nevin Steinberg
Dir. Saheem Ali
Awards and Honors:
2025 Broadway World Off-Broadway Winner, Sound Design, House of McQueen
2024 St. Louis Theater Circle Nominee, Sound Design, Twisted Melodies
2023 Cloris Award Nominee, Sound Design, The Piano Lesson
2023 Broadway World Des Moines Nominee, Sound Design, The Piano Lesson
2022 Jeff Award Nominee, Sound Design, Queen of the Night
2019 Broadway World Des Moines Nominee, Sound Design, Too Heavy For Your Pocket
2019 Broadway World Des Moines Nominee, Sound Design, How I Learned What I Learned
2019 Broadway World Raleigh Nominee, Sound Design, Native Son
2019 Broadway World Raleigh Nominee, Sound Design, Skeleton Crew
2019 Cloris Award Nominee, Sound Design, Too Heavy For Your Pocket
2019 Cloris Award Nominee, Sound Design, Intimate Apparel
Some of my Compositions Mixed by Me Here
Contact My Agent, Julie Kim
E-mail: jhkim18us.office@gmail.com