Paul Groothuis

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Sound Designer

Previously at Chichester, The Sound of Music, South Pacific (also UK tour and Sadler’s Wells), Amadeus, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, Neville’s Island, The Pajama Game, Private Lives, Kiss Me, Kate, Sweeney Todd, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (all also West End), A Damsel in Distress, Mack and Mabel, Young Chekhov Trilogy, Travels with My Aunt, Ross, Sweet Bird of Youth, Oklahoma!.

For the National Theatre, Anything Goes, His Dark Materials, My Fair Lady (1987, 2011), Candide, Oklahoma!, Oh! What a Lovely War, A Little Night Music, Lady in the Dark, Guys and Dolls (1990), Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, Carousel, Follies, Buried Child, All My Sons, The Wind in the Willows, Shaughraun, The Cherry Orchard, Flight.

For Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, where he is Creative Associate: Nutcracker, Highland Fling, Sleeping Beauty, Edward Scissorhands, Play Without Words, Red Shoes, Dorian Gray, The Carman, Romeo and Juliet, The Midnight Bell.

Other theatre includes Double Feature, Loyalty, 55 Days, Chariots of Fire, Rabbit Hole, Good People, The Cost of Living, Filthy Business, I and You, House of Games (Hampstead Theatre); The King and I (Palladium/UK tour); Oliver! (Palladium/Drury Lane/UK tour); My Fair Lady (Drury Lane); Mary Poppins (UK tour & Germany); Marguerite (West End & Tokyo); Acorn Antiques (West End & UK tour); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sheffield/West End/UK/US tour); The Height of The Storm (West End & Broadway); A German Life (Bridge Theatre); Showboat (Sheffield/New London); The Band’s Visit (Donmar); Hello Dolly! (Palladium); Unicorn, The Producers (Garrick).

Paul studied Stage Management at Central School of Speech and Drama. He spent three years working at Jeff Wayne Music Studios and with the National Theatre Sound Department 1984 – 2001, since when he has worked as a freelance Sound Designer.