Donato Wharton

BA, MSc
Job title
Lecturer, Sound for Theatre and Performance

Profile

I am a sound designer and musician.

My music has been published on the Manchester/Berlin record label City Centre Offices, on the Cardiff-based Serein label, and on self-published limited edition CD-Rs. It has been used in radio features, television programmes and theatre productions internationally. I continue to maintain an active artistic and professional practice as a musician, and as a sound designer in theatre and dance theatre contexts internationally. I have toured extensively as the Sound Manager for the Canadian theatre company Ex Machina in Europe, North America and South America (Le Dragon Bleu/The Blue DragonJeux de Cartes 2: Coeur/Playing Cards 2: Hearts).

I studied Theatre Sound Design at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (BA Hons.) and Digital Composition & Performance at the Reid School of Music, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (MSc).

As well as lecturing at Central I have been a guest lecturer at The Royal Academy of Art, The Royal College of Art and The Ruskin School of Art.  I currently serve on the board of the Association of Sound Designers.

Areas of Expertise

  • Theatre Sound Design

  • Electronic and Digital Music Composition

  • Audio Software and Technology

  • Sound for Performance

External Practice

Recent Theatre Sound Design / Composition work

  • 2022 (Sound Designer) A Number, Old Vic, London UK
  • 2021 (Sound Designer) White Noise, The Bridge Theatre, London, UK
  • 2021 (Sound Designer, Additional Composition) Under Milk Wood, National Theatre, London, UK
  • 2021 (Composer, Sound Designer) Anatomie eines Suizids, Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, Germany
  • 2021 (Sound Designer) Kein Weltuntergang, schaubühne, Berlin, Germany
  • 2021 (Sound Designer) Force Majeure, Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, UK
  • 2019 (Sound Designer) Three Sisters (National Theatre, London, UK)
  • 2019 (Sound Designer) Appropriate, Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, UK
  • 2019 (Sound Designer) Anatomie eines Suizids, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2018 (Sound Designer) Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, The Shed, New York, USA
  • 2019 (Sound Designer) Bluets, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2018 (Sound Designer) Schlafende Männer, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2018 (Sound Designer) On the Exhale, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
  • 2018 (Sound Designer) La Maladie de la mort, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, France
  • 2017 (Sound Designer) 4.48 Psychose, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany

Register of Interest

Nothing to declare.