Composer & Sound Designer, Revenge Song
Shane Rettig is a composer, sound designer, music producer, and performer. He has written, designed for, and performed with a diverse range of theatre and dance companies including Vampire Cowboys, The Public, MTC, Monica Bill Barnes & Co, The New Group, The Signature, Roundabout, EST, Ma-Yi, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Flea, New Victory, La MaMa, Soho Rep, Rattlestick, and HERE Arts Center. Music/co-lyricist for War Is F*cking Awesome with Qui Nguyen & William Jackson Harper (2013/2014 Sundance Lab). Music for The Unknown (2005 NYMF). 2015 Frederick Loewe award (War is F*cking Awesome), Drama Desk and Lortel nominations. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, Children’s Theatre Company, Dallas Theatre Center, Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla, South Coast Rep, Williamstown, Yale Rep, Prague Quadrennial. Upcoming: Poor Yella Rednecks at MTC, electronic chill album Alt/Freq and a retrospective album of the music of the ’80s punk band Angry Kavanaughs.