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Christopher Shutt


Christopher Shutt trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He was Head of Sound at the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Court Theatre, where shows included Serious Money and Road. He was, until recently, Sound Supervisor at the National Theatre, where he worked for many years. For Theatre de Complicite: The Elephant Vanishes, Mnemonic, The Noise of Time, The Street of Crocodiles, The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, Caucasian Chalk Circle and many others. For the National Theatre: Mourning Becomes Electra, The Talking Cure (director Howard Davies), The PowerBook (Deborah Warner), Humble Boy (John Caird), Life x 3 (Matthew Warchus), Hamlet (John Caird), Albert Speer, Not About Nightingales (Trevor Nunn), Death of a Salesman (David Thacker), Chips with Everything (Howard Davies), The Homecoming (Roger Michell) and Machinal (Stephen Daldry). Also: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Simon McBurney) with Al Pacino, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and many others in New York. He was awarded the 1999 New York Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design for Not About Nightingales and the 2001 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design for Mnemonic.