ABOUT

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Stephanie Farina is a Chicago based sound designer, musical mixer, and educator.  Sound Design credits include Falsettos (Court/Timeline Theatre), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Drury Lane Theatre), Dreamgirls (McCarter Theatre), Revolution(s), Nacirema Society, New Stages 2022, 2023 and 2024 (Goodman Theatre), 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Fannie (Indiana Rep). Associate Sound Design credits include Life After, Music Man (Goodman Theatre), Once on this Island (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Fannie (Seattle Rep, Goodman Theatre), Fun Home (Kansas City Rep), Forever Plaid, Mama Mia, and 42nd St (Drury Lane Oakbrook). While spending a decade at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, Stephanie mixed, audio supervised, and RF tech’ed a number of award winning productions including Smokefall, Another Word for Beauty, Brigadoon, Ain’t Misbehavin, Little Foxes, Animal Crackers, Turn of the Century, White Snake, A View from the Bridge, Wonderful Town, Disney’s Jungle Book, and War Paint (pre Broadway). Her other regional mixing credits include Blue, Twilight: Gods (Michigan Opera Theatre), Proximity, Factotum, Fiddler on the Roof, Twilight: Gods, West Side Story, Light in the Piazza, Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyric Opera of Chicago).

 She works as an audio engineer for various corporate events, including such companies as Microsoft, Amazon, and Marriott, among others.

 Stephanie is a Journeyman in IATSE Local 2 and USA829 and is currently the Interim Head of Sound Design at The Theatre School at DePaul University.