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Nicola T. Chang is an award-winning composer/sound designer for stage and screen. Her works include the three Olivier-nominated plays: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, The Swell and A Playlist for the Revolution. She was the Composer/Sound Designer on the 2020/21 Old Vic 12 cohort and a current BAFTA Connect Member (Film Composer). She was a co-winner of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund (Audio Design) in 2021, and has received four Off West-End Award nominations in Sound Design and a BroadwayWorldUK nomination in Musical Direction.
Her design work is characterised by seamless harmonic interplay between music, sound effects and soundscaping, and her composition work characterised by a contemporary blend of classical orchestration and electronic instrumentation.
"…accompanied by an evocative soundtrack by Nicola Chang, time seems almost suspended. It’s a tremendous production, balancing beauty and brutality, and bringing fresh poignancy to Strindberg’s masterpiece."
★★★★★ The Stage on Miss Julie
“Sound is another important factor in For Black Boys… with an inspired use of music interspersing the action. [As] a play where sound and music are a key part, sound designer and composer Nicola T. Chang brings these together remarkably, with sound also working well with the movement to bring characters back into reality.”
★★★★★ All That Dazzles on For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy
"One of the best, perhaps the best, staging of any play I have seen in 2023... The half-dozen strong cast is excellent in every possible respect, as indeed is Nicola T. Chang’s sensitive, well-conceived musical score"
★★★★★ Behind the Arras on The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man
"A tantalising vocal score (sound design by the prolific Nicola T. Chang) characterised by rich, haunting harmonies that swell, conjuring the gently acknowledged ocean-side location of the play’s world."
★★★★ Evening Standard on The Swell
"(The) impactful sound world created by Nicola T Chang makes us feel that we too drown alongside Jamie, and gasp as she resurfaces for air... How I Learned to Swim is one-person theatre at its greatest."
★★★★★ TheatreWeekly on How I Learned to Swim
UPCOMING
A Doll's House, adapted by Chris Bush
dir. Elin Schofield / Sheffield Crucible / August 2024
Reverberation by Matthew Lopéz
dir. Jack Sain / Bristol Old Vic / September 2024
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
dir. Max Webster / National Theatre / November 2024
RECENT
What If If Only/Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill
dir. Sarah Frankcom / Manchester Royal Exchange / February 2025
My Neighbour Totoro, adapted by Tom Morton-Smith
dir. Phelim McDermott / Gillian Lynne Theatre / March 2025
Shanghai Dolls by Amy Ng
dir. Katie Posner / Kiln Theatre / April 2025
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