SELECTED WORKS - THEATRE

UPCOMING 2025:
AETHER - TheatreGoose
FLORENCE - Dir. El Blackwood
SCATTER - Dir. Patrick Mcphearson
MUMSPLAINING - Dir. Hannah Harquart

2025

Writer and Director - Cesca Eschlin
Lighting Designer - Skylar Turnbull Hurd
Photography by Giulia Ferrando
‘The play of spotlights... brings its own drama, as does the music (composed by Sarah Spencer).’ - The Guardian

‘Sarah Spencer's sound design is integral to the play's impact. Pacey musical interludes seamlessly transition between timelines, while eerie echoes draw the audience deeper into the protagonist's psyche, heightening suspense in this psychological exploration.’ - The Review’s Hub

‘This effect is heightened by the sound designer Sarah Spencer's
evocative soundscape, which whispers, creaks and scrapes along with the narrator's storyteling before swelling up to a screeching intensity as her fantasies reach fever pitch.’ - London Pub Theatre Magazine

Theatre Weekly ***
Everything Theatre *
The Scotsman
The Stage
The LIst
The Reviews Hub **.

TENDING
Composer & Sound Designer // Anther Theatre

Brixton House Theatre, Riverside Studios, The Northwall, Theatre Royal Bath, Bush Theatre

Director - John Livesy
Writer - El Blackwood
Lighting Designer - Ros Chase
Photography by Giulia Ferrando
‘Effective and subtle use of lighting and contemporary sound by respectively Ros Chase and Sarah Spencer brilliantly convey the emotive, sensory impact on NHS nurses who work crushingly long hours in a system stretched paper-thin’ - The Reviews Hub *****

‘One of the most timely plays of the Fringe’ - The Scotsman ****
Scottish Field Magazine *****
British Theatre Guide *****
The Reviews Hub *****
Artshub *****
British Theatre ****
Sinners Review ****

SISTERS THREE
Composer & Sound Designer // Theatre Goose

Summerhall 08/2024

Director - Emma Howlett
Set Desginer - Eleanor Wintour
Lighting Designer - Edward Saunder
Photography by Giulia Ferrando
Lustrum Award Winner 2024

‘Striking sound design from Sarah Spencer’ - Fergus Morgan, The Stage ****

‘Sisters Three is ingenious...it's intelligent stuff and performed with verve.’ - Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor

The List **** Review
North West End ****
Corr Blimey ****

HER GREEN HELL Composer & Sound Designer // Theatre Goose

Summerhall, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Theatre Royal Bath

Director - Emma Howlett
Set Desginer - Eleanor Wintour
Lighting Designer - Edward Saunder
Photography by Giulia Ferrando

‘Spencer’s quiet but constant undercurrent of the sounds of the rainforest, with the low hum of the planes flying overhead...was spinetingling.’ - Lost in Theatreland ****

The Stage ****
Radio Exe *****
The Scotsman ****
The List ****
Fest Mag ****
British Theatre Guide ****
Everything Theatre ****

PROJECT DICTATOR
Pianist & Composer // Rhum & Clay

New Diorama Theatre, HOME Manchester, Bristol Old Vic, Norwich Plyhouse, Northern Stage, Light Box Festival (Oslo), Teatru Manoel (Malta)

Co-Directors & Performers // Julian Spooner & Matt Wells
Original Composer & Musician // Khaled Kurbeh
Co-Director // Hamish Macdougall
Set & Costume Designer // Blythe Brett
Lighting Designer // Simeon Miller
Associate Director // Mine Cerci
Producer // Grace Dickson
Photography by Cesare de Giglio
'This is shape-shifting, thought-provoking theatre that interrogates the world we live in, how artists fit into that, and what price we pay for choosing the easier options. It's surprising, disturbing, and, at its conclusion, desperately moving.'
Whats On Stage
The Stage ****
The Scotsman ****
Broadway World ****
British Theatre Guide ****
Everything Theatre ***

GROUNDED
Composer & Sound Designer // The Bridge Theatre

Full Circle, Brussels 10/2023

Director - Emma Howlwtt
Set Desginer - Eleanor Wintour
Lighting Designer - Edward Saunder
Photography by Giulia Ferrando

KAREN
Sound Designer // Greenlit Productions

The Other Palace, Seven Dials Playhouse, Old Joint Stock

Directeor - Evie Townsend
Writor - Sarah Cameron West
Performer - Sarah Cameron West
Set Design - Roisin Jenner

The Reviews Hub *****
Operation Live Theatre *****
A Youngish Perspective *****
The Stage ****
Theatre Weekly ****
Broadway Baby ****

Edinburgh News Top Ten Shows 2023

MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS
Composer & Sound Designer // Freight Theatre

Summerhall

Directeor - Luke Wintour
Writor - Alex Rugman
Performers -AK Golding and Julia Pilkington
Set Design -
Lighting Design - Jonathon Chan
Video Design - Dan Light
Photo - Gavin Smart
‘A company to watch’ The Stage
‘Precient’ The Observer

LOVESONG / Composer, Sound Designer & Pianist // Freight Theatre

Co-Directors - Luke Wintour and Alex Rugman
Writor - Abi Morgan
Performers - Adam Goodbody & Miranda Collins
Poster design - Kate Weir

‘For me, the highlight of the show lay in the musical interludes composed by Sarah Spencer, which were wistful and gorgeous, complemented by the sounds of starlings.'
- Oxford Opening Night

'Sound-tracked by an astonishing score composed in its entirety by Sarah Spencer, action feels perpetually on the edge of breakdown.' - Cherwell

SELECTED WORKS - FILM & TV

HOUSTON’S WHITE BEAM (2024)
Composer and Sound Designer

DOC NYC
American Documentary and Animation Film Festival
Kendal Mountain Festival
London Mountain Film Festival
DCEFF (Honourable Mention)

Botanist/poet Libby Houston meditates on her work exploring and cataloging a unique ecosystem in the Avon Gorge.

Directed - Al Darby and Jake Morris
Produced - Al Darby and Jake Morris
Edited - Ben Collier
Colour Grade - Aiden Tobin

REBEL GIRLS
Composer // Makematic

Discovery Education

Stories about the lives of extraordinary women from the past and present, celebrating their impact on the world. Based on the New York Times best-selling book series 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls'. Season of 25 episodes.

THE TUNNEL // Assistant Composer // Dir. Pål Øie, 2019

Nordisk Film

Norwegian Thriller. When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself.

The Kanon Awards, Audience Award Winner
The Kanon Awards, Best Sound Design (Nomination)
The Kanon Awards, Best Producer (Nomination)

Writers - Pal Oie, Kjersti Rasmussen
Executive Producers - Aage Aaberge, Live Bonnevie, Sveinung Golimo, Sigurd Mikal Karoliussen, Henrik Zein
Producer - John Einar Hagen, Einar Loftesnes
Editing - Sjur Aarthun
Composers - Ingo Frenzel, Lars Lohn, Martin Todsharow

HAUTE MESS
Co-Director & Composer (Currently in Post Production) // Documentary

Oxford is a university defined by the world’s top thinkers and archaic traditions. Re’em and Marcus, two young queer students, felt alienated by its stifling conventions and dreamed of something different. The result was Oxford’s first drag performance night, Haute Mess.

Not content with having created the cult queer night of Oxford University, our protagonists throw themselves into new and increasingly dangerous situations as they seek to expand. In the Alps, they perform to 3000 Oxbridge students, where they are confronted with drunken, debauched crowds.

The film centres on the troupe’s sole drag king: Nicole. As an outsider, she is keen to prove her worth to a scene in which she feels invisible. She is a king in a queen’s world, and the film follows how intimidating and brutal this reality can be.

Haute Mess is an intimate, queer coming-of-age story about three young people stumbling towards adulthood, and fighting to build a community where many thought it impossible.

Co-Director - Luke Wintour
Executive Producer - Ryan Murphy
Editors - Sarah Spencer, Luke Wintour, Amy Pettipher

RAT KING // Composer, Sound & Foley Designer

ICA & BBC ARTS

A lone musician plays a tune on a tuba. Two characters are transfixed by a maypole and the distant sound of Jerusalem. As they become entangled in its ribbons, they grapple with each other on a journey to England’s edges.

In a distant retelling of folk tales and the urban legend of the ‘Rat King’, the film explores the myths and stories which create English nationalism. On their journey through ‘Englishness’, the characters are faced with two conflicting desires: community and exclusion.

Director/Producer - Luke Wintour
Cinematographer/Producer - Emma Langguth
Choreography/Dancer - Stephanie Burrell
Writer/Dancer - Donna Marcus
Executive Producers - Shane O'Sullivan (Kingston School of Art) and Nikta Mohammadi

SORGENFRESSER / Music Editor & Assistant Composer

Nickelodeon Deutschland

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