Selected Sound Designs
Snow White
Florida Studio Theatre
Oct. 30, 2025 – Feb. 20, 2026
Director: Dellan Short
Scenic Design: Casey Seilar
Costume Design: Julia Hornsby
Props Design: Audrey Smith
Lighting Design: Kate Landry
Sound Design: Nicholas Ryan
Photos: Sorcha Augustine
The threatening forest creeps in as the step-mother describes its perils.
The step-mother adds another ingredient to the bubbling potion.
Birds fly in to carry the step-mother away.
A cricket accompanies Emma and Hugh as they have a peaceful moment at night.
The recorded guitar underscores a portion where the actor didn’t have time to play live.
Grandma Gatewood
Florida Studio Theatre, Bown Lab
Feb. 6 – Mar. 1, 2026
Director: Nancy Rominger
Costume Design: Julia Hornsby
Prop Design: Audrey Smith
Lighting Design: Kate Landry
Sound Design: Nicholas Ryan
Photos: Emiliano Mejias
Eisenhower
Florida Studio Theatre, Bowne Lab
Jan. 9 – Apr. 5, 2026
Director: Nancy Rominger
Costume Design: Julia Hornsby
Prop Design: Audrey Smith
Lighting Design: Kate Landry
Sound & Projection Design: Nicholas Ryan
Photos: Emiliano Mejias
Eisenhower’s inaugural speech opens the show along with “Hail to the Chief”.
Deck the Halls
Florida Studio Theatre, Keating Theatre
Nov. 29 – Dec. 24, 2025
Director: Caroline Saldivar
Scenic Design: Casey Seilar
Costume Design: Julia Hornsby
Lighting Design: Kate Landry
Sound & Projection Design: Nicholas Ryan
Photos: Sorcha Augustine
The Ver*zon Play
Gettysburg College Theatre Department, Kline Theatre
Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2025
Director: Dr. Susan Russell
Scenic Design: Heather Stokes
Costume Design: Juls Buehrer
Lighting Design: Jonathan Stiles
Assistant Lighting Design: Nicholas Ryan
Sound Design: Nicholas Ryan
Projection Design: Nicholas Ryan
Photos: Grace Jurchak
Jenni has a breakdown as the second act begins.
Jenni is tormented by Ver*zon as she tried to get her phone service restored.
The audience is subjected to being on hold on the phone during preshow.
The barnyard slowly wakes up as the show begins.
The pigeons spread news of the rebellion across England.
Molly sings after she has deserted the animals’ revolution.
The humans sabotage the windmill by blowing it up.
Animal Farm
Gettysburg College Theatre Department, Kline Theatre
Oct. 24-27, 2024
Director: Trazana Beverly
Scenic Design: Eric Berninghausen
Costume Design: Juls Buehrer
Lighting Design: Jonathan Stiles
Sound Design: Nicholas Ryan
Photos: Grace Jurchak
Eurydice
Gettysburg College Theatre Department, Kline Theatre
Apr. 18-21, 2024
Director: Wes Jackson
Scenic Design: Braden Wolf
Costume Design: Juls Buehrer
Lighting Design: Jonathan Stiles
Sound Design: Nicholas Ryan
Photos: Grace Jurchak
Eurydice falls from the apartment of the Nasty Interesting Man all the way down to the Underworld.
Orpheus cross into the Underworld bringing his music and life.
Orpheus searches for the right music in a rainstorm. This was layered with other storm sounds.
This is the cheesy sound effect that the radio host played whenever referencing his cult following of “Thrillers.”
The tape recorder starts to transition from the present into the past.
This cue is one of the foley style cues to bring life into the radio play.
The Case of Charles Augustus Milverton
Upstart Arts
Premiered Dec. 2, 2023
Writer and Director: Michelle Denise Norton
Concept: Joan Concilio
Composer: Miguel Vela
Editor: Gayle Eubank
Sound Design: Nicholas Ryan
The Prom
Gettysburg College Theatre Department, Majestic Theatre
Nov. 2-5, 2023
Director: Chris Kauffman
Choreographer: Bruce More
Music Director: Susan Hochmiller
Conductor: Russel McCutcheon
Scenic Design: Eric Berninghausen
Costume Design: Juls Buehrer
Lighting Design: Jonathan Stiles
Sound Design: Nicholas Ryan
Photos: Eric Lippe
The Broadway actors’ celebration of opening is interrupted by the arrival of bad reviews.
This cue introduces the scene as the Broadway stars try to woo an audience of a monster truck show.
Alyssa listens to a recording of “Unruly Heart” before being interrupted by her mother.
Drum shoots at the birds in his yard, and Rhett protests.
Rhett escapes to pursue the noises that have been tormenting him.
This is the DJ speech starting the scene on the radio.
Steel Magnolias
Gettysburg College Theatre Department, Majestic Theatre
Feb. 29-Mar. 3, 2024
Director: Catherine Blaine
Scenic Design: Eric Berninghausen
Costume Design: Juls Buehrer
Lighting Design: Jonathan Stiles
Sound Design: Nicholas Ryan
Photos: Eric Lippe & Grace Jurchak
Stupid F*cking Bird
Gettysburg College Theatre Department, Kline Theatre
Apr. 17-19, 2025
Director: Chris Kauffman
Scenic Design: Eric Berninghausen
Costume Design: Juls Buehrer
Lighting Design: Jonathan Stiles
Sound Design: Nicholas Ryan
Photos: Grace Jurchak
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