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Composer & Music Director, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sartje Pickett is a composer & sound designer for theater, film, and interactive storytelling. Pickett is the co-founder of the sound design collective District 5 Sound, which specializes in sound design for immersive and interactive storytelling environments. Her work in this area has provided opportunities to develop skills in coding, embedded electronics, and spatialized audio through ambisonic capture, processing, and delivery. Performance has been a lifelong passion, and she continues to develop projects that incorporate live elements culminating in performance-driven responsive design. Some national theater credits include – American Players Theater: Much Ado About Nothing, Dancing at Lughnasa, Proof, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cyrano, Mary’s Wedding & Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Kansas City Rep: Nina Simone: Four Women; The Guthrie: Twelfth Night, The Great Leap; Indiana Repertory: Shakespeare’s Will; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Richard III; Yale Repertory Theater: Hamlet, Death of a Salesman & A Delicate Balance; Bricolage Production Company: DODO, Welcome to Here, Immersive Encounters: The Ascendants; City Theater: Cry it Out; Pittsburgh Public: A Christmas Story; Virginia Stage Company: Three Musketeers.