Episodes
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Rebecca Wilson is an industry veteran, working in live sound for over 25 years. Touring solely as a monitor engineer, except for a brief stint as FOH Engineer for Flemming and John (while out with Ben Folds), she has worked for Sound Image, at Humphrey’s by the Bay and toured with Nanci Griffith, Wilco, The Bangles, and more. Rebecca is based in New York, and after finishing a 15-month project for Tibet House US, the Cultural Center for the Dalai Lama in NYC has moved into the position of head audio engineer for the TED headquarters and TED World Theatre.
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Bonnie Wild: British Sound Designer & Re-Recording mixer
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Bonnie Wild is a British born Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer. As a second generation audio artist, she remembers little of life before the dub stage. With summers spent at her Father’s studio, lacing reel to reels and examining the art of the mix, she has an innate connection to sound and story telling.
Also an accomplished guitarist, Bonnie graduated from Leeds College of Music in 2003. She was soon working in the Post Production Sound Department at the ITV Leeds Studios, sound editing and mixing primetime UK drama.
After chancing it all and starting a new life in San Francisco, Bonnie’s dream of working at Skywalker Sound became reality. Since 2012, she has worked on projects ranging from premium television and commercials to documentary and features.
Through her work, Bonnie strives to connect with audiences and create authentic, emotional experiences through the art of sound.
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Jill Zimmermann: Award winning Audio Engineer
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Jill is an Award winning Audio Engineer currently working mainly out of Jukasa Studios. Coming from Cologne, Germany, Jill followed her dream to work in the North American Music Industry with its wealth of talented musicians and artists. She achieved a Bachelor of Engineering in Media Technology specializing in Audio at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf, Germany. In addition, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Audio Production at the School of Audio Engineering (SAE) in Cologne.
Since Jill moved to Canada, she started working on many projects alongside the two Juno winning albums from Harrison Kennedy “This Is From Here” and “Touch” by July Talk. Additionally she has played an important role as the engineer of 2 Gold Singles, a Gold Record and several Billboard #1 Hits while working with bands such as: Three Days Grace, Alice Cooper, City and Colour, Alexisonfire, July Talk, and The Trews. Having worked as a fulltime engineer made it possible to work with renowned Engineers and Producers: Bob Ezrin (Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Kiss, Pink Floyd), Howard Benson (Daughtry, Santana, My Chemical Romance), Gavin Brown (Billy Talent, Barenaked Ladies, The Tea Party), Mike Plotnikoff (Three Days Grace, Hoobastank, BlessTheFall), Ian Davenport (July Talk, Wir Sind Helden) and David Bendeth (Paramore, Papa Roach, Breaking Benjamin).
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Elyssa Kohen: Touring Audio Engineer
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Elyssa Kohen grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. She graduated from the prestigious Las Vegas Academy for Performing Arts before attending the University of North Carolina School of the Arts where she received her BFA in Theatre Design and Production-Sound Design. She quickly put her degree to use by going to work for the MUNY in St. Louis, starting as an intern in 2013 and returning as the Assistant Sound Designer in 2015. When the season ended, she collaborated as a Sound/Mixing Engineer with several organizations including the Alliance Theater, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse (now The REV), and Ogunquit Playhouse.
In late December of 2016, Elyssa began her touring career, joining Motown the Musical 2nd National Tour as Assistant Audio. Shortly thereafter she jumped onboard with the School of Rock 1st National Tour. In 2017/2018 she was fortunate to tour both nationally and internationally with the Rent 20th Anniversary Tour, traveling to China and Japan.
In the summer of 2019, she was chosen to be the Assistant Audio for Frozen the Broadway Musical 1st National Tour. The pandemic caused Frozen to be shut down in March of 2020 in Portland, Oregon and Elyssa found herself back in Las Vegas. After 15 months of inactivity behind a soundboard, she got the chance to mix shows again as she went to work for The Glimmerglass Festival in June of 2021.
As of August 2021, Elyssa is back to work on Frozen, the Broadway Musical.