Artist Bio

(Bio as of January 2022)

Michael Bordeen (Sound Designer/Original Music) returns to the Goodman, where he previously worked on The Baltimore Waltz, Mirror of the Invisible World, The Odyssey, Journey to the West, Galileo Galilei, and the original production of The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, among others. Broadway credits include music composition and sound for No Man’s Land & Waiting for Godot, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Miracle Worker; and sound for Larry David’s Fish in the Dark, Sweat, The Price, Of Mice and Men, This is Our Youth, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Superior Donuts, A Year with Frog and Toad, reasons to be pretty, Hollywood Arms and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom with his collaborator, Rob Milburn. They have created music and sound Off-Broadway, at many of America’s resident theaters and at several international venues. He is the recipient of a Drama Desk nomination, a Helen Hayes nomination, an LA Ovation nomination, a Beverly Hills/ Hollywood NAACP Theatre Awards nomination, an Acclaim award, an LA Garland award, three Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, six Joseph Jefferson Awards and a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Sound Design.