Bio
Arshan Gailus composes original music and designs sound for theater companies including ArtsEmerson, The Huntington Theatre Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival, A.R.T Institute, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Gloucester Stage Company, Company One, New Repertory Theatre, and The Lyric Stage Company.
Arshan was recently awarded the 2016 IRNE Award for Best Sound Design (Small Theater) for his design of appropriate for the SpeakEasy Stage Company. He was also a member of the Elliot Norton Award winning design teams for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Company One, 2012) and Twelfth Night (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, 2011). In addition to his work in theater, Arshan composes music and designs sound for independent video games in the Boston area and internationally.
Arshan teaches at Emerson College where he serves as the Resident Sound Designer for the Department of Performing Arts.
Arshan holds a B.S. in Music from MIT, where he studied composition, instrumental performance, psychoacoustics, computer science, and electrical engineering. He has studied classical saxophone with Ken Radnofsky and Philipp Stäudlin.
Member, United Scenic Artists Local USA 829
Sound Design Production History
* indicates Original Music in addition to Sound Design
| 2018 | Three Americanisms | Harvard Theater, Dance & Media | Paul Lazar, dir. |
| Antigone Project | Emerson Stage | David R. Gammons, dir. | |
| Death and the Maiden | Commonwealth Shakespeare Company | Steven Maler, dir. | |
| 2017 | *Hold These Truths | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Benny Sato Ambush, dir. |
| Kiss | ArtsEmerson | David Dower, dir. | |
| Oleanna | New Repertory Theater | Elaine Vaan Hogue, dir. | |
| Exit the King | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Dmitry Troyanovsky, dir. | |
| *The Tempest | Shakespeare & Company | Allyn Burrows, dir. | |
| Titanic | Emerson Stage | Scott Lafeber, dir. | |
| *Stage Kiss | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Courtney O'Connor, dir. | |
| 2016 | *The Tempest | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Allyn Burrows, dir. |
| *Martyr | Brandeis University | Dmitry Troyanovsky, dir. | |
| MalaArtsImpulse Award nomination Also presented at The Guthrie Theater (2017) and The Huntington Theatre (2018) | ArtsEmerson | David Dower, dir. | |
| *Hamlet | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Doug Lockwood, dir. | |
| *Marjorie Prime | Nora Theatre Company | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. | |
| *Fast Company | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. | |
| *Richard II | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Allyn Burrows, dir. | |
| 2015 | Macbeth | Brandeis University | Zoë Golub-Sass, dir. |
| *O Beautiful | Emerson Stage | Benny Sato Ambush, dir. | |
| appropriateIRNE Award Elliot Norton Award nomination | SpeakEasy Stage Company | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. | |
| The New Electric Ballroom | Gloucester Stage Company | Robert Walsh, dir. | |
| *World Builders | Contemporary American Theater Festival | Nicole A. Watson, dir. | |
| Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief | American Repertory Theatre Institute | Melia Bensussen, dir. | |
| Merrily We Roll Along | Emerson Stage | Scott Lafeber, dir. | |
| Uncommon Women, and Others | Emerson Stage | Maureen Shea, dir. | |
| 2014 | *Phèdre | Actors' Shakespeare Project | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. |
| Dancing at Lughnasa | Emerson Stage | Courtney O'Connor, dir. | |
| *Becoming Cuba | Huntington Theatre Company | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. | |
| *The Cherry Orchard | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Melia Bensussen, dir. | |
| 2013 | Splendor | Company One | Shawn LaCount, dir. |
| *Romeo and Juliet | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Bobbie Steinbach and Allyn Burrows, dirs. | |
| TribesIRNE Award nomination | SpeakEasy Stage Company | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. | |
| *Pericles | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Allyn Burrows, dir. | |
| Clybourne Park | SpeakEasy Stage Company | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. | |
| Lungs | New Repertory Theater | Bridget Kathleen O’Leary, dir. | |
| 2012 | *Chinglish | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Larry Coen, dir. |
| Macbeth | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Paula Plum, dir. | |
| *The Elaborate Entrance of Chad DeityElliot Norton Award IRNE Award nomination | Company One | Shawn LaCount, dir. | |
| Avenue Q | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Spiro Veloudos, dir. | |
| *The Temperamentals | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Jeremy Johnson, dir. | |
| Superior Donuts | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Spiro Veloudos, dir. | |
| 2011 | *The Divine Sister | SpeakEasy Stage Company | Larry Coen, dir. |
| Twelfth NightElliot Norton Award | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Melia Bensussen, dir. | |
| 1001 | Company One | Megan Sandberg-Zakian, dir. | |
| *The Understudy | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Larry Coen, dir. | |
| 2010 | *GRIMM | Company One | Shawn LaCount and Summer Williams, dirs. |
| Blithe Spirit | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Spiro Veloudos, dir. | |
| *Legacy of Light | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Lois Roach, dir. | |
| The Sing Song Show | Boston Arts Academy | Rosalind Thomas-Clark, dir. | |
| 2009 | The Overwhelming | Company One | Shawn LaCount, dir. |
| *after the quake | Company One | Shawn LaCount, dir. | |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts | Robert Knapp, dir. | |
| 2008 | *Voyeurs de Venus | Company One | Summer Williams, dir. |