Gareth Fry

Sound Designer

Gareth Fry trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in Theatre Design and is the author of Sound Design for the Stage.

Theatre credits include: Paranormal Activity (Leeds Playhouse); Viola’s Room (Punchdrunk); Player Kings (West End); Til The Stars Come Down (NT); Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse); Free Your Mind (Aviva Studios); Romeo and Juliet (Almeida); Medea (Soho Place), Diva (V&A); Jungle Book Reimagined (Akram Khan); On The Ropes (Park Theatre); A Christmas Carol, John Gabriel Borkman, Bach & Sons, Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, Beat The Devil (Bridge Theatre); Caucasian Chalk Circle (Rose Theatre); To The Streets (Birmingham 2022); Psychodrama (Traverse); Bedknobs & Broomsticks (UK tour); Harry Potter And The Cursed Child (London, New York, Melbourne, San Francisco, Hamburg, Toronto, Tokyo, Chicago).

Other work includes: The Encounter, The Master & Margarita, Shun-kin, Endgame (Complicité); Let The Right One In, Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland); The Barber Shop Chronicles, Othello, The Cat in the Hat, A Matter Of Life and Death, Attempts on Her Life, Waves (National Theatre, England); Soundscape Design, Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. 

Awards include: 2017 Special Tony Award and Evening Standard Award for Sound Design of The Encounter; Drama Desk Award and a Helpmann Award; 2017 Olivier Award, 2018 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and an Outer Circle Critics Award for Best Sound Design for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; 2007 Olivier Award and a Helpmann Award for Black Watch and 2006 Olivier Award for Waves.