Richard K. Thomas
Professor of Theatre, Sound Design, Head of Design & Technology
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| Office: | Pao 2184 |
| Office Phone: | (765) 49-48150 |
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Rick’s recent projects include a biography about Broadway sound pioneer Abe Jacob (
The Designs of Abe Jacob), and leading a team of Visual and Performing Arts students and faculty in the creation of
Labcoats on Clouds
that premiered at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial in June of 2007. Rick
also organized and led a group of artists from Purdue, Germany, Paris,
and San Francisco in the performance art piece,
Laptop Connections
at the Marysakovo Railway Station during the “PQ.” Having composed
music and soundscores for the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Dublin
Theatre Festival and ESPN among many others, Rick’s most recent theatre
compositions include
An Unkindness of Ravens at Roosevelt University in Chicago in 2007 and Shakespeare’s
The Winter’s Tale at
Purdue in 2006. Rick won the Murphy Award for outstanding teaching at
Purdue University in 2007 and the USITT Herbert D. Greggs Award for
outstanding journal article in 2002. Rick is a certified sound designer
in IATSE Local 1 (New York NY), and chair of the OISTAT Sound Working
Group. Research interests include playmaking, music composition and
sound design for live theatre, and sound system design and engineering.
