Annual Meeting: Welcome! Early Career Roundtable & Mentorship Meetup
July 26, 2025 3:00pm PDT
Judy Bayley Theater
Led by Newton (Newt) Schottelkotte with special guests Katherine Gonzalez, Ien Denio, Daniela Hart, and Toby Chester.
A new coat of paint on a TSDCA staple, the Early Career Roundtable will pick the brains of some of TSDCA’s top working designers, sharing their diverse range of experiences in the world of live sound. Attendees will have the opportunity to register for a series of one-on-one networking speed dates with their select choice of panelists following the discussion.
Newton (Newt) Schottelkotte
Andrea Allmond (Sound Designer) (She/They) is a Sound Designer and Composer for Theatre, Film, Audio Dramas and Immersive Installations. Select Theatre Credits: Off Broadway: Gloria A life, Regional: The Old Globe: One of the Good Ones, The Fountain Theatre: Alabaster, Pasadena Playhouse: One of the Good Ones, Milwaukee Repertory: Prelude to a Kiss The Musical, South Coast Repertory: Nina Simone: Four Women, Alice’s Wonderland, Mark Taper: The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Composer), Village Theatre: How to Break, Dallas Theater Center: Public Works Dallas As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Public Works Dallas The Winter’s Tale. Shakespeare Notre Dame: Romeo and Juliet, Tours: Viiv: As Much I Can National Tour, LATW: Lucy Loves Desi National Tour, DCPA: Wild Fire, Regional Tour. You can find more about her design work at andreaallmond.com
Katherine Gonzalez
Ien Denio
Daniela Hart is a New York City based sound designer and composer with an MFA in Sound Design from the Yale School of Drama. Selected theater credits include Complicity Island (Audible); Blues Clues Live (Round Room); Ripple (Berkeley Rep/Goodman); Happy Life (Soho Rep); Queen (Long Wharf Theater/A.R.T.NY); Choir Boy (Yale Rep); First Down (59e59); Fires In The Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage & Long Wharf Theater); Night Watch (Dorset Theater); Pleasure Machine (Colt Coeur); The Juniors (Colgate University); Vapor Trail (MIT Music & Theater Arts); The Masses Are Asses (Weslyan Unviersity); How to Save the World in 90 Minutes (Cherry Lane); Mr. Burns (Iseman Theater, Yale); Avital (Yale Cabaret); References to Salvador Dali…(ART, Harvard); Julius Caesar (Vermont Shakespeare); Neighborhood 3 (Rattlestick Theater); The Parlour (Soho Rep). Daniela is also a producer, editor and sound supervisor with her company www.UptownWorksNYC.com
Toby Chester has over 27 years of experience in the music and entertainment industry. He currently serves as the Application Global Lead, Musical at L- Acoustics.
Prior to this role, Toby worked as an Audio Consultant, Sound Designer, and Mix Engineer, during which he developed a deep and diverse expertise in the field. Over the course of his career, he has contributed to some of the world’s most distinctive and ambitious projects, successfully designing and delivering technically complex solutions in challenging environments.
Previous works include:
Fawlty Towers, London, Only Fools & Horses London, ABBA Voyage, We Will Rock You London, The Commitments London, Strictly Ballroom, Monty Python Live, Still Game, Dynamo Live, Commitments UK Tour, We Will Rock You
UK Tours 2009 – 2022, Assembly Rooms Edinburgh Fringe, Tokyo Summer Olympics 2021, Korean Winter Olympics, Russian Winter Olympics, London Olympics, Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022, Glasgow
Commonwealth Games 2014, King Charles Royal coronation concert BBC, HRH Queen Elizabeth’s 92nd Birthday celebrations , Royal Weddings, BBC Ypres 100 Centenary, BBC Somme 100 Centenary, BBC Mons 100
Centenary, BBC D-Day 75, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, UAE National Day 2018 – 2021, Dubai World Expo 2021, Royal Windsor Tattoos, BBC Sports Personality of the year, BBC young musician of the year, Stand up to Cancer
Live, Children in need live, The Late Late show, Brian May & Kerry Ellis tours, Glastonbury Festival Pyramid Stage, Desperado Deep House under water project.
Stefanie Senior is a sound designer/engineer/cat mom/whiskey drinker based in Chicago. Her work has been heard at theatres across the city, as well as Milwaukee Rep, Pittsburgh City Theatre, People’s Light, and Trinity Rep. Stefanie got her start at age 5 acting in plays, and has been in love with theatre ever since. Besides acting, Stef has hung and focused lights, crafted and repaired costumes, built and painted sets, and even tried her hand at directing before landing on sound design, but knowing a little bit about everything has made her a better designer and theatre practitioner. Stefanie prides herself on her collaboration, her problem-solving skills, and her attention to the details of a show. They are a firm believer that a good process yields a good product, and thoroughly enjoys working with other designers to build magical theatrical moments. She loves the way sound can influence and manipulate emotions; she especially loves to design thrillers/horrors and comedies, as both require precision and nuance. When she’s not in a theatre, she’s definitely hanging out with her cat, Tybalt, reading gothic horror novels, singing showtunes, or trying to find the best Old Fashioned in whatever city she’s in.
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Sessions are available via video for members a few days after the session is completed.