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GULLS OPENS PREVIEWS AT BOSTON COURT IN PASADENA, CA.
This world premiere adapts Chekov's the Seagull into a 50's beatnik/doowap musical complete with nine talented singers, and a five piece jazz band. Martin Carrillo Designs Sound.
Tickets available at the Boston Court's website. The show runs through August 24th 2008 and opens previews July 18, 2008.
MARTIN CARRILLO WINS THE 2007 OVATION AWARD FOR BEST SOUND DESIGN FOR AN INTIMATE THEATER!
Martin was joined by wins for his colleagues Set Designer, Tom Buderwitz and Lighting Designer, Steven Young.
The award was presented at a Gala event on November 12th 2007 at LA's Historic Orpheum Theater in Downtown Los Angeles.
Annette Benning was also recognized for career achievement.
"I would like to thank: The staff at the Boston Court, Z Clark Branson, Eileen T'Kaye, Michael Michetti, Jessica Kubzansky, Michael Seel, and Cheryl Rizzo for making the show a resounding success. I would also like to extend my deep appreciation for the many talented performers who made my job so easy to do well. The cast of 18 masterful singers made music every night with cellist Fang Fang Xu, and the On Ensemble under the capable direction of Greg Chun. Good musicianship is a prerequisite to good sound, and I had it in gobs. Soprano Hila Plitman made the designer's job easy performing flawlessly night after night. Eric Whitacre, thank you for giving us your beautiful music and your tireless dedication to the project.
A very special thanks to Jason Crystal who made the tricky task of maintaining wireless mics through ruthless fight choreography seem easy. I could not have won this award without you.
Thank you to Liza Tognazini for your patient and informed stage management. A show this technical is not an easy thing to pull off, and you did with flying colors.
Last but not least I would like to thank Meyer Sound Laboratories Level Control Systems Series for their generous support in the way of additional equipment for the show. Working with Meyer product is working with the best every time. John, Richard, Ellen, Jodi, Steve, and Jeremy and everyone at Meyer: I thank you for continuing to build the tools that make this work a challenge, a joy and an achievement."
This is Martin Carrillo's second Ovation award. His first was for Romeo and Juliet: Antebellum New Orleans which he won in 2004.
You can find the rest of the nominees at the LA Stage website
Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings closes at the Theatre @ Boston Court
Logos and Extasis battle each other in their clad robotic wings at the Boston Court. (Photo by Ed Krieger)
Martin Carrillo, Sound Designer, opens the show to rave reviews
"Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings oozes dread, even in its somber, pre-show score — marshy, Eno-ish electronica accompanied by a virtual weather front of stage mist." writes Steven Mikulan of the LA Weekly "Martin Carrillo’s sound design is reliable and crisp"
"... the singing is gorgeous" writes Don Shirley of Los Angeles City Beat
"The spine-tingling, operatic score is punctuated by live Taiko drumming, a gripping techno undercurrent, and outstanding choral work by an exemplary cast" writes Terri Roberts of Theater Mania when referring to grammy nominated Eric Whitacre's wonderful music.
"... overhead accompaniment of cello, synthesizer and percussion that literally lifts one out of one's seat." says Bob Verini of Variety. He adds also that "The swelling chorale singing thrillingly of "Bliss" creates a final frisson that many another ambitious musical would envy."
"The acoustics at T@BC are amazing" says Travis Michael Holder of Entertainment today, "include some of LA's finest designers including ... appropriately decibel shattering sound by Martin Carrillo"... "Plitmann [Extasis] has a vocal instrument that is simply unreal in its beauty, a high lyrical soprano that cuts through Whitacre’s electronic augmentation like a knife." "The most remarkable use of a 99-seat stage ...ever"
"it is full of brilliant sound and fury" writes Sharon Perlmutter for Talkin' Broadway
Charlotte Stoudt of the LA Times writes that "the show comes at you like a rollercoaster -- a roar of youth speed and metal."
2007 Orange County High School of the Arts celebrated its 20th anniversary at the new Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. On January 28th Martin mixed the event which featured guest performances by Tony nominated Susan Egan, Pianist Steven Mann, Violinist Sean Lee, Dante, Nick Urie, Matt Morrison, Dante Bosco, and Austin O'Brien.
2006 Ovation Award Nominees announced at the Colony Theater and Martin Carrillo was among them for his Sound Design of J.O.B the Hip Hopera. Joe Barruco, Jerome Sable, and Eli Batalion were also recognized in the category for their stellar score, recordings, and sonic soundscape... Winners were announced on November 13th at the yearly black tie event. Martin Carrillo was awarded the 2004 LA Stage Alliance Ovation award for his work on Romeo and Juliet: Antebellum New Orleans.
Independant Film UNDOING Premiered to a sold out crowd at the LA Film Festival on June 22nd, 2006.
Martin Carrillo provided Music Editing serviced to the film which follows a young Grifter on his path to understanding.
The Current TV Cartoon, SuperNews, heats up the Internet with debate surrounding their episode entitled: The Great Immigration Debate of 1612
Martin Carrillo is a contributing Sound Designer to the program. Catch it on TV at various times or on the internet. www.currenttv.com/supernews
Hong Kong Disneyland Opened on September 12th 2005
Martin returned home from the "Fragrant Harbour," Hong Kong where he was working to launch the newest Disney Theme park by contributing Audio Consultation for the Lion King Theater in Adventureland and Storybook Theater in Fantasyland.
Critics of LA Area Theater rave:
"The Set and the Lighting are ingeniously simple and evocative, but the impeccable sound design is the tech foundation that makes the show fly: Invisible like the strings on Superman until it's intentionally front and center..."
Jerry L. Jackson Metro LA Magazine
"Unlike much fringe theater, the Hip-Hopera is not limited by its intimate surroundings. Instead it blows them away with music..."
Ariana Mufson CurtainUp
"The original music by Sable, Batalion and Joe Barrucco feels authentic and is toe-tappingly catchy. 'J.O.B.' is not only one of the best shows of the year -- it's one of the best shows LA has seen in many years."
Terry Morgan Variety
"Martin Carrillo's eerie, jungle-evocative sound design."
-Paul Birchall LA Weekly (Peru in Africa)
"The Stellar Sound Design of Martin Carrillo includes a heavy rainstorm, forest murmurs and an airplane flying overhead that momentarily had us believing it had taken off from nearby Santa Monica Airport."
-Dany Margolies Backstage West (Peru in Africa)
"Aided by sound designers Julie Ferrin and Martin Carrillo, one gets a greater than usual feeling of place from simply the way one hears. Check out the echoes in the church, or the way flies buzz across the space behind you."
-Frances Baum Nicholson San Gabriel Valley Tribune (Romeo & Juliet: Antebellum New Orleans)
Martin Carrillo is a "great talent" says Anne Kelly-Saxenmeyer of the Santa Monica Mirror (Buddy Buddette)
"...Eat me becomes a story about ruined people finding a fleeting moment of peace in each other's company. How they get there is a radical sleight of hand, and it owes its success mostly to the psychological detail in Wright's script, her own comically nuanced performance, and the rumbling background of a television stuck on afternoon reruns set against eerie piano chords (Martin Carrillo wrote the music and designed the sound)."
-Judith Lewis LA Weekly
And the Backstage West had to get in on the praise with this review:
"... At 75 minutes Eat Me is relentless from start to finish. It's made all the more so by Martin Carrillo's subtle, creepy underscoring and the overwhelming trashiness of Tommy's shoddy home (Scenic Designer Barbara Lempel)."
-Terri Roberts Backstage West
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