Olivia Wheeler is a mixed-race, Chinese Canadian sound designer and composer. Her artistic work in sound design, composition, immersive performance design and puppetry spans across the country with companies such as the Stratford Festival, Why Not, Factory Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects and Theatre SKAM. Recent theatre credits include sound design for Cymbeline (Stratford), The Fixing Girl (Young People’s Theatre), Mad Madge (Nightwood Theatre), De Profundis (Soulpepper), Here Lies Henry, Armadillos (Factory Theatre), ECHO (Next Stage), Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (Cahoots Theatre), associate sound design for A Wrinkle in Time (Stratford Festival), Three Women of Swatow (Tarragon), and assistant sound design for Mahabharata (Why Not). Outside of her sound design practice, she is a playwright, puppet designer, and puppeteer, with her shadow puppet play Quest for the Moon produced by WeeFestival and Theatre SKAM in the past year. She is a member of IATSE ADC 659. More at www.oliviagwheeler.com
Olivia Wheeler
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