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Nicola T Chang

ABOUT

Nicola T. Chang is an award-winning composer/sound designer for theatre (plays), film, audio dramas and commercial media. Her works for theatre include the 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 is also a theatre performer, recently appearing in Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (UK Tour), and previously in SIX (West End) and STOMP (West End/World Tour).

Selected theatre credits include:
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (Garrick West End/Apollo West End/Royal Court Jerwood Downstairs/New Diorama), My Neighbour Totoro (RSC/Barbican), Kerry Jackson (National Theatre), Skeleton Crew (Donmar Warehouse), Minority Report (Nottingham Playhouse/Birmingham Rep/Lyric Hammersmith), The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man (Nottingham Playhouse/Blackpool Grand/Coventry Belgrade), A Doll's House (Sheffield Crucible), Reverberation (Bristol Old Vic), TRIBE (Young Vic), The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho Theatre), The Swell (Orange Tree Theatre),  A Playlist for the Revolution (Bush Theatre), Little Baby Jesus (Orange Tree Theatre, JMK 2019),  Feral Monster (National Theatre of Wales), Top Girls (Liverpool Everyman), A Doll's House (Sheffield Crucible), Reverberation (Bristol Old Vic), NEST (Leeds 2023), Of the Cut (Young Vic), Macbeth (Leeds Playhouse), All Mirth and No Matter (RSC), Dziady/Forefather's Eve (Almeida Theatre), White Pearl (Royal Court Jerwood Downstairs),  Miss Julie (Chester Storyhouse), How I Learned to Swim (Paines Plough), The Death of Ophelia (Shakespeare’s Globe), Funeral Flowers (UK Tour/Camden Roundhouse/Hackney Empire), Summer Rolls (Park Theatre), From Shore to Shore (Manchester Royal Exchange / UK Tour), No Man's Land (Square Chapel Halifax) and A Hundred Words for Snow (Arcola Theatre).

Selected film credits include:
If You Only Knew (2024), Mei (Sundance 2022), Baked Beans (2022), Twitching (2022), The Fight in the Dog (2022), The Bicycle (2022), Devi (2022), IRL (2021), LAID (2021), Getting Away with Murder(s) (2021), Seafruit (2020), A Dose of Happiness (2019), Boundaries (2019), You Wouldn't Adam and Eve It (2019), Postcards from the 48% (2018) and The Perfect Dinner (2017)

Awards and nominations:​​

  • Composition/Sound Design

    • British Podcast Awards – Best Fiction Podcast: Fully Amplified (silver)

    • Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund – Audio Design (co-winner)

    • Off West-End Awards – Sound Design: Garden of Words (nominee)  

    • Off West-End Awards – Sound Design: Little Baby Jesus (nominee)

    • Off West-End Awards – Sound Design: Finishing the Picture (nominee)

    • Off West-End Awards – Sound Design: Nine Foot Nine (nominee)

  • Musical Direction

    • ​BroadwayWorld UK/West End Awards – Musical Director: The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (nominee)

  • Performance

    • Hong Kong Percussion Centre Trophy

    • Elizabeth Verveer Tishler Prize in Music Performance

Recent projects include:

  • For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy Olivier Awards For Best New Play (Nomination) 

  • The Swell Olivier Awards 2024 Outstanding Achievement In Affiliate Theatre (Nomination), Off West-End Awards For Best Production (Nomination), Guardian Readers’ Favourite Stage Shows Of 2023

  • A Playlist For The Revolution Olivier Awards 2024 Outstanding Achievement In Affiliate Theatre (Nomination)

  • My Neighbour Totoro Winner Of Six Olivier Awards And Five Whatsonstage Awards

  • The Real And Imagined History Of The Elephant Man, Sir Peter Hall Directing Award 2023, Guardian Readers’ Favourite Stage Shows Of 2023

  • Fully Amplified British Podcast Awards 2022 (Fiction Category) - Silver, Anthem Awards 2022 (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Category) - Silver, International Women’s Podcast Awards 2021 (Moment Of Touching Honesty Category) - Runner Up, Arias Awards 2022 (Grassroots Category) - Bronze

She works with a variety of theatre and dance companies, including the National Youth Ballet, British Youth Musical Theatre, National Youth Theatre, Rambert and House of Absolute. She was the Composer/Sound Designer on the 2020/21 Old Vic 12 cohort and a current BAFTA Connect Member (Film Composer).​ 
 
As a theatre performer, she currently plays in Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World as Assistant MD/Keys 2/Percussion, and has played in Six the Musical (West End) as deputy MD/Keys 1. She is also a former cast member of STOMP! (West End/World Tour).
 
As an orchestral percussionist, she has played with the Chineke! Orchestra, the Women of the World Orchestra and the London Film Music Orchestra and at venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and the Shakespeare’s Globe.

She also works in audio plays and radio drama: she co-created the audio work Mooncake with Isabella Leung as part of 45North's "Written on the Waves" programme in 2021, and co-created Sonic Phở with Anna Nguyen in 2022. Her work on the "Fully Amplified" Podcast Series for Futures Theatre was awarded Silver at the British Podcast Awards in 2022.

In 2021, she scored the short film LAID, which won Best Sci-Fi at Cannes Shorts and was an official selection at the New York Film Festival. In January 2019 she premiered her Concerto for Ping Pong and Piano Trio at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. This concerto was performed in Shanghai later in the year. In 2017, she conducted the London Film Music Orchestra playing her original soundtrack to The Perfect Dinner, accompanied by a live screening of the film. 

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