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Hidenori "Hide" Nakajo is a New York-based award-winning sound designer, engineer and mixer.

Design credit includes;

 

Off Broadway & NYC: Still (Sheen Center), Molly Sweeney (Irish Rep), Still (DR2), The Life & Smiles of Marc Summers (New World Stages), The Creeps (Playhouse 46), OCTET (Signature, Obie Award, Drama Desk nom., Lucille Lortel nom., Henry Hewes Design Awards nom.), Autumn Royal (Irish Rep, Drama Desk nom., Henry Hewes Design Awards nom.), mɔːnɪŋ [morning// mourning] by Gelsey Bell (Prototype Festival), Dodi & Diana (HERE),

 

Regional: The Subject Was Roses (Bay Street Theatre),  OCTET (Berkeley Rep), Moby Dick (A.R.T., Elliot Norton Award), Guys & Dolls (Guthrie), Still (Dorset Theatre Festival), Other World (Delaware Theater Company), Hold These Truths (People’s Light), Into the Burrow, A Peter Rabbit Tale (Alliance, GA, Suzi Bass Awards), A Gift of Love with Adam McKnight (Alliance, GA). Broadway Associate: Camelot, The Kite Runner, The Front Page. Broadway Assistant: The Lightning Thief, Be More Chill, Allegiance, Gigi. Tour Associate: The Kite Runner (North American Tour), My Fair Lady (NE Tour).

 

Music Composition: He recently made international theatre debut as composer for New Renaissance In Paris -Pyramid of 1989, a new play written and directed by Tetsu Taoshita in Tokyo Japan in 2024.

 

He also served Japanese theatrical productions in NYC as a bilingual sound engineer/translator/coordinator, including Ikuko Kawai & Orchestra Hibiki (Jazz at Lincoln Center), One Green Bottle by Noda Map (La MaMa) and several others for Lincoln Center Festival 2015-17. Hidenori holds BA in Broadcasting from College of Arts, Nihon University, MFA in Sound Design from Carnegie Mellon University. A member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 and IATSE ACT. Also, currently a member of the Brooklyn-based Colt Coeur Theatre company.​