EMMA LAXTON
SOUND DESIGNER
Emma trained at Central School of Speech and Drama & has been a Sound Designer for Theatre since 2003.
She was the Deputy Head of Sound at the Royal Court from 2002 – 2007. She has also worked as a senior sound technician in the Olivier at the National Theatre and was Associate Sound Designer on WARHORSE in the West End.
AWARDS
OLIVIER Award
EMILIA – Best Sound Design (2020)
Falstaff Award
CORIOLANUS – Best Sound Design/Original Score (2014)
THEATRE CREDITS
PRODUCTION | VENUE/PRODUCER | YEAR | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
Mlima's Tale | Kiln Theatre | 2023 | |
Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written | Regent's Park Open Air Theatre | 2023 | |
Dancing at Lughnasa | National Theatre | 2023 | |
Trouble in Butetown | Donmar Warehouse | 2023 | |
The Collaboration | Broadway | 2022 | |
A Christmas Carol | Old Vic Theatre | 2022 | Associate Sound Designer |
Antigone | Regent's Park Open Air Theatre | 2022 | |
The Collaboration | Young Vic Theatre | 2022 | |
A Christmas Carol | Old Vic Theatre | 2021 | Associate Sound Designer |
Hamlet | Young Vic | 2021 | |
Walden | West End | 2021 | |
Against | RADA | 2021 | |
The Band Plays On | Sheffield Theatres | 2021 | As Sound Consultant |
The Living Newspaper: Edition 1 | Royal Court Theatre | 2020 | |
Coriolanus | Sheffield Theatres | 2020 | |
| A Kind Of People | Royal Court Theatre | 2019 | |
| Superhoe | Royal Court Theatre | 2019 | |
| Vassa | Almeida Theatre | 2019 | |
| Blood Wedding | Young Vic Theatre | 2019 | |
| Equus | West End | 2019 | Associate Sound Designer |
| Emilia | West End | 2019 | |
| Rita, Sue and Bob too | Out of Joint & Royal Court UK tour | 2019 | |
| The Glass Piano | The Print Room at The Coronet | 2019 | |
| The Writer | Almeida Theatre | 2018 | |
| The Country Wife | Chichester Festival Theatre | 2018 | |
| random/generations | Chichester Festival Theatre | 2018 | |
| The York Realist | Donmar Warehouse | 2018 | |
| Measure For Measure | Donmar Warehouse | 2018 | |
| Sweet Charity | Nottingham Playhouse | 2018 | |
| Uncle Vanya | Hampstead Theatre | 2018 | |
| See Me Now | Young Vic Theatre | 2017 | |
| The House That They Grew Up In | Chichester Festival Theatre | 2017 | |
| Forty Years On | Chichester Festival Theatre | 2017 | |
| Titus Andronicus | Royal Shakespeare Company & Barbican | 2017 | |
| Julius Caesar | Sheffield Theatres | 2017 | |
| Limehouse | Donmar Warehouse | 2017 | |
| Breaking The Code | Royal Exchange Theatre | 2016 | |
| Ghosts | HOME | 2016 | |
| Made in Dagenham | Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch & New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich | 2016 | |
| Boys Will Be Boys | Headlong & Bush Theatre | 2016 | |
| Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme | Headlong, UK Tour | 2016 | |
| Schism | Finborough Theatre | 2016 | |
| Easter Rising and Thereafter | Jermyn Street Theatre | 2016 | |
| Great Expectations | West Yorkshire Playhouse | 2016 | |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Birmingham Rep | 2015 | |
| The Oresteia | HOME | 2015 | |
| Wuthering Heights | National Youth Theatre | 2015 | |
| The Merchant of Venice | National Youth Theatre | 2015 | |
| Consensual | National Youth Theatre | 2015 | |
| The Effect | Sheffield Theatres | 2015 | |
| All My Sons | Royal Exchange Theatre & Talawa Theatre | 2015 | |
| Hello/Goodbye | Hampstead Theatre | 2015 | |
| Each His Own Wilderness | Orange Tree Theatre | 2015 | |
| Carthage | Finborough Theatre | 2014 | |
| The Blackest Black | Hampstead Theatre | 2014 | |
| Widower’s House | Orange Tree Theatre | 2014 | |
| Accolade | St. James’ Theatre | 2014 | |
| Cat On A Hot Tin Roof | Royal Exchange Theatre, Royal & Derngate & Northern Stage | 2014 | |
| The Saints | Nuffield Southampton | 2014 | |
| The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Tricycle Theatre | 2014 | |
| Pests | Clean Break, Royal Exchange Theatre & Royal Court | 2014 | |
| Henry The Fifth | Unicorn Theatre & Imaginate Festival | 2013 | |
| All My Sons | Royal Exchange Theatre | 2013 | |
| A Doll’s House | Royal Exchange Theatre | 2013 | |
| Three Birds | Royal Exchange Theatre | 2013 | |
| The Accrington Pals | Royal Exchange Theatre | 2013 | |
| Coriolanus | Donmar Warehouse | 2013 | |
| #Aiww: The Arrest Of Ai Weiwei | Hampstead Theatre | 2013 | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Old Vic Theatre | 2013 | |
| nut | National Theatre | 2013 | |
| OMG! | Sadlers Wells, The Place & Company of Angels | 2013 | |
| Berenice | Donmar Warehouse | 2012 | |
| The Physicists | Donmar Warehouse | 2012 | |
| Making Noise Quietly | Donmar Warehouse | 2012 | |
| The Recruiting Officer | Donmar Warehouse | 2012 | |
| Lady Windermere’s Fan | Royal Exchange Theatre | 2012 | |
| Lay Down Your Cross | Hampstead Theatre | 2012 | |
| Blue Heart Afternoon | Hampstead Theatre | 2012 | |
| There Are Mountains | Clean Break | 2012 | |
| The Promise | Donmar Warehouse @ Trafalgar Studios | 2012 | |
| You Can Still Make A Killing | Southwark Playhouse | 2012 | |
| The Sacred Flame | ETT Rose Theatre Kingston & UK tour | 2012 | |
| Black T-Shirt Collection | FuelTheatre, UK tour & National Theatre | 2012 | |
| Invisible | Transport Theatre & New Wolsey Ipswich, UK Tour & Luxembourg | 2011 | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | SFP, West End | 2011 | |
| Precious Little Talent | Trafalgar Studios | 2011 | |
| Where’s My Seat | Bush Theatre | 2011 | |
| Sisters | Sheffield Theatres | 2010 | |
| Men Should Weep | National Theatre | 2010 | |
| Like A Fishbone | Bush Theatre | 2010 | |
| The Whiskey Taster | Bush Theatre | 2010 | |
| Charged/ReCharged | Clean Break & Soho Theatre | 2010 | |
| My Romantic History | Sheffield Theatres | 2010 | |
| Travels With My Aunt | Northampton Theatre Royal | 2010 | |
| If There Is, I Haven’t Found It Yet | Bush Theatre | 2009 | |
| 2nd May | Bush Theatre | 2009 | |
| Apologia | Bush Theatre | 2009 | |
| The Contingency Plan | Bush Theatre | 2009 | |
| Wrecks | Bush Theatre | 2009 | |
| Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat | National Theatre | 2008 | |
| Broken Space Season | Bush Theatre | 2008 | |
| 2000 Feet Away | Bush Theatre | 2008 | |
| Pornography | Birmingham Rep, Traverse Theatre, Tricycle Theatre | 2008 | |
| Europe | Dundee Rep & Barbican Pit | 2007 | |
| That Face | Royal Court & West End | 2007 | |
| Other Hands | Soho Theatre | 2006 | |
| Terrorism | Royal Court Theatre | 2003 | |
OPERA CREDITS
| PRODUCTION | VENUE/PRODUCER | YEAR | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth | Royal Opera House | 2018 | |
| Last Hotel | Royal Opera House – Linbury Studio & Luxembourg | 2015 & 2017 | Associate Sound Designer |
EVENT CREDITS
PRODUCTION | VENUE/PRODUCER | YEAR | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
Fame Factory | Done + Dusted | 2022 |
OPERA CREDITS
| PRODUCTION | VENUE/PRODUCER | YEAR | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
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