Lex Kosanke
Sound Designer, Composer, Production Sound Engineer
lex.kosanke@gmail.com
07553955122
suchnoise.com
Training
Royal Central School of Speech & Drama: BA (Hons) Theatre Practice: Theatre Sound ‘14 (First Class with honours)
Productions
2022 – Sound Designer/Composer – Between the Roots and Wings, RCSSD (directors Martin Wylde and Rachel Wise)
2022 – Composer/Technical Director – The Grand Expedition, Blue Square Theatre, Seoul (Gingerline)
2022 – Sound Designer/Composer – The Girl Who Was Very Good At Lying, Summerhall @ Edinburgh Fringe (director Fay Lomas)
2022 – Sound Designer/Composer – Final Baby Girl, Assembly @ Edinburgh Fringe (Baby Lame)
2022 – Sound Designer/Composer – Supernova, UK Tour (director Fay Lomas)
2022 – Sound Designer/Composer – Widows, GSA (director Matthew Monaghan)
2022 – Qlab Programmer – The Burnt City (Punchdrunk)
2021 – 2022 – Sound Designer/Composer – Final Baby Girl, Pleasance Theatre and UK Festival Tour (Baby Lame)
2021 – 2022 – Sound Designer/Composer – RICE, Orange Tree Theatre and UK Tour (director Matthew Xia)
2021 – Sound Designer/Composer – The Girl Who Was Very Good At Lying, Jermyn Street Theatre and Omnibus Theatre (director Fay Lomas)
2021 – Sound Designer/Composer – The Grand Expedition, Fosun Foundation and Taikoo, Shanghai (Gingerline)
2021 – Sound Designer/Composer – Small Change, Omnibus Theatre (director George Richmond-Scott)
2021 – Sound Designer/Composer – woven//dissonance and A Thousand Invisible Chords, Interactive Installations for the E17 Art Trail (With Poppy Flint, Ben Bailes and Wyn Works Studios)
2021 – Sound Designer/Composer – Sea Stories 2050, Audio Adventure for the National Maritime Museum (The House of Fairy Tales)
2021 – Sound Designer/Composer – Spring and Summer, Audio Dramas as part of Land Skeins (directors Fay Lomas and Tash Hyman)
2020 – Sound Designer/Composer – The Two Gentleman of the Hollow Heart R&D, Hampstead Theatre (director Fay Lomas)
2020 – Sound Designer/Composer – The Little Mermaid Cocktail Experience (Fever)
2020 – Sound Designer/Composer – AntigoneNOW, Film for the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance (directors Margaret Kemp and Sinéad Rushe)
2020 – Sound Designer/Composer – The Mikvah Project, Orange Tree Theatre and BBC Radio 4 Lockdown Theatre Festival (director Georgia Green)
2020 – Sound Designer – The Cutting Edge, Arcola Theatre (director Jack Shepherd)
2019 – 2020 – Sound and Lighting Designer – Slipped, RVT Panto (director Tim McArthur)
2019 – Sound Designer/Composer – Hunger, Arcola Theatre (director Fay Lomas), Finalist for the 2020 Off-West End Award for Best Sound Design
2019 – Composer/Qlab Programmer – TV Dinners (Gingerline)
2019 – Qlab Programmer – Audiences of the Future R&D (Punchdrunk)
2019 – Qlab Programmer – Ford, IAA 2019 Frankfurt (Imagination)
2019 – Sound Designer/Composer – Pilgrims, Orange Tree Theatre (director Ellie Goodall)
2019 – Sound Designer/Composer – Sadness and Joy in the Lives of Giraffes, Orange Tree Theatre (director Wiebke Green)
2019 – Sound Designer/Composer – 8 Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography, Orange Tree Theatre (director Gianluca Lello)
2019 – DJ – Bread & Roses and Village Inn at Glastonbury Festival
2019 – Associate Sound Designer – Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds: The Immersive Experience (sound designer Theo Holloway)
2019 – Sound Designer/Composer – Happily Ever Poofter, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Above The Stag and The Outhouse (for the Edinburgh Fringe) (director Rich Watkins)
2019 – Sound Designer/Composer – Gently Down The Stream, Park Theatre (director Sean Mathias)
2018 – 2019 – Sound and Lighting Designer – Rubbed, RVT Panto (director Tim McArthur)
2018 – Sound Designer/Composer – The Grand Expedition (Gingerline)
2018 – Sound Designer/Composer – Homos, Or Everyone in America, Finborough Theatre (director Josh Seymour)
2018 – Sound Designer – The Burial At Thebes, RCSSD (director Martin Wylde)
2018 – Sound Designer/Composer – The Merchant of Venice, Orange Tree Theatre (director Imogen Bond)
2018 – Production Sound Engineer – Small Wonders (Punchdrunk)
2018 – Sound Designer – The Three Sisters, RCSSD (director Mike Alfreds)
2018 – Sound Designer/Composer – Dream Dinners (Gingerline)
2018 – Sound Designer – The Strongbox, The Vaults (director Lucy Richardson)
2018 – Sound Designer/Composer – Sacha Guitry, Ma Fille et Moi, Drayton Arms (director Marianne Badrichani)
2017 – 2018 – Sound and Lighting Designer – Goosed, RVT Panto (director Tim McArthur)
2017 – Sound Designer/Composer – Chambers of Flavour V3 (Gingerline)
2017 – Sound No.1 – Hocum Pokem, Toynbee Hall (director Peaches Christ)
2017 – Sound Designer/Composer – Loaded, Birmingham Old Rep (director Sinéad Rushe)
2017 – Production Sound Engineer – Kabeiroi (Punchdrunk)
2017 – Associate Sound Designer – Kiki’s Delivery Service, Southwark Playhouse (sound designer Max Pappenheim)
2017 – Sound Designer – Juniper Manor (Gingerline)
2017 – Sound Designer/Composer – It Is So Ordered, Pleasance Theatre (director Lucy Curtis)
2017 – Sound Designer – Bunny, White Bear Theatre (director Lucy Curtis)
2016 – 2017 – Sound and Lighting Designer – Prince Bendover in Boots, RVT Panto (director Tim McArthur)
2016 – Sound and Video Engineer/Operator – To a Simple Rock ‘n’ Roll … Song, Barbican Theatre (Michael Clark Company)
2016 – Sound Designer –New Europe, Camden People’s Theatre (Engineer)
2016 – Sound Designer/Production Sound Engineer – The Chambers Of Flavour V2 (Gingerline)
2016 – Sound Designer – A Serious Case Of The Fuckits, RCSSD (director Sarah Davey-Hull)
2016 – Sound Designer – Madame Gingerline (Gingerline)
2016 – Sound Designer – Jonny Woo’s East London Lecture, Shoreditch Town Hall (director Douglas Rintoul)
2016 – Sound Designer – The Heresy Of Love, RCSSD (director Martin Wylde)
2016 – Production Sound Engineer – The Tell-tale Heart, The Glory (East London Session Players)
2016 – Sound Designer/Composer – Richard III, New Diorama Theatre (The Faction)
2015 – 2016 – Sound and Lighting Operator –Charming Dick, RVT Panto (director Tim McArthur)
2015 – Sound Designer – The Divided Laing, Arcola Theatre (director Michael Kingsbury)
2015 – Associate Sound Designer – My Eyes Went Dark, Finborough Theatre (sound designer Max Pappenheim)
2015 – Sound Designer/Production Sound Engineer – The Chambers of Flavour (Gingerline)
2015 – Sound Designer/Composer – Crave, Disk Space, Prague (director Maike Koch)
2015 – Sound Designer – Market Boy, RCSSD (director Dan Herd)
2015 – Sound Designer/Composer – The Secret Island Of Gingerline
2015 – Sound Designer – Gone Camping (The Art of Dining)
2014 – 2015 – Sound and Lighting Operator – Jack, Sissy that Stalk!, RVT Panto (director Tim McArthur)
2014 – 2015 – Sound Designer/Operator – Sleeping Beauty (The Familyyy Fierce Panto), The Black Cap
2014 – 2015 – Sound Designer/Composer – The Lost Gardens of Gingerline
2014 – Assistant Production Sound Engineer – The Boy Who Climbed Out Of His Face (Shunt)
2014 – Sound Designer/Composer – Post Mortem, Accidental Festival at the Roundhouse Studio, Die-Wo-Spielen Festival in Stuttgart, Germany and International Festival of Puppetry Schools in Bialystok, Poland (devised with Laura Elands)
2014 – Sound Designer/Composer – Loaded, Jacksons Lane (director Sinéad Rushe)
2013 – 2014 – Sound, Lighting and Video Operator and Composer – Gingerline, Hideout
2013 – Sound Designer/Composer – As You Like It, RCSSD (director Douglas Rintoul)
2013 – Sound Designer – Man, Beast and Virtue, RCSSD (director Catherine Alexander)
2013 – Sound Designer/Composer – Frag.men.ted, Bridewell Theatre and Etcetera Theatre among others (devised with Laura Elands)
2009 – 2011 – Sound Designer/Performer – Various productions, Theater Zwo Sieben, Nuremberg, Germany
Skills
Ableton Live (Sound Design and Composing)
Expert Qlab programming
Composition, performance and recording with Guitar, Bass, Synthesizer, Piano and Voice
Dynamic and responsive live improvisation and sound manipulation using the software and instruments above, microphones and foley techniques
Proficient on analogue and digital mixing desks
Native German speaker
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