TIGERS BE STILL Earns LCT Award for Sound Design

Vincent Olivieri Earns League of Cincinnati Theatres Award for Sound Design in Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s TIGERS BE STILL

Lindsey Kyler as Sherry and Eric Nelsen as Zack. Photo by Sandy Underwood.

(CINCINNATI, MARCH 27, 2012)– Vincent Olivieri, sound designer for the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s production of TIGERS BE STILL, has earned a League of Cincinnati Theatres (LCT) Award for his work. According to LCT panelists, “Olivieri set the tone, mood and memory through a deft and specific soundscape.”

Written by Kim Rosenstock, TIGERS BE STILL is billed by the Playhouse as a darkly funny and moving new comedy about a young woman juggling the excitement of her first job with even bigger challenges at home: a depressed mother who won’t get out of bed and a sister who won’t get off the couch.

Panelists described Olivieri’s sound design as key to the show’s success. “On a very small stage, scenes took place in a school gym, drugstore, office, closet, outdoors and in the living spaces of two houses. Except for the main set, capturing the essence of these scenes was limited to a couple of props and pieces of furniture — and the sound!,” said one LCT panelist. “The sound effects were so believable that I was in that school gym with the scratchy microphone, in that store with the scanner, watching the movie with the characters — and I knew there were dogs behind that basement door. Bravo.”

Olivieri also created the sound design for TIGERS BE STILL director Rob Ruggiero’s previous productions of HIGH and LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC at the Playhouse. Locally, he’s additionally worked frequently at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati.

TIGERS BE STILL continues through April 15. Ticket information is available at www.cincyplay.com.

The League of Cincinnati Theatres was founded in 1999 to strengthen, nurture and promote Cincinnati’s theatre community. LCT provides its member companies and individual members with education, resources and services to enhance the quality and exposure of the theatre community in Cincinnati and increase community awareness, attendance and involvement. More information about the League can be found at www.leagueofcincytheatres.info.