ANDREW
HARPER
SOUND
DESIGNER
for theatre and opera
ABOUT
Andrew Harper is a Helen Hayes Award nominated freelance sound designer for musical theatre, opera, and ballet. He is the sound designer for Houston’s Theatre Under the Stars, having designed over fifty musicals with them since 2013, Andrew has designed sound for many productions with Houston Grand Opera (including five world premieres), LA Opera, Washington National Opera, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Shakespeare Theatre in DC, Lyric Opera Kansas City, Atlanta Opera, and Houston Ballet, among others. In summer 2021, he designed the outdoor sound system and all six productions on it for the Glimmerglass on the Grass Festival in New York, including The Magic Flute, Songbird, Il Trovatore, and The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson. Interviews and press about Glimmerglass and other projects are linked on the press page.
In the 2025-2026 season, Andrew designed 25th...Spelling Bee, White Chirstmas, and Million Dollar Quartet for Theatre Under the Stars, American Psycho with Houston Broadway Theatre, Francesca Zambello's production of West Side Story at Los Angeles Opera, Porgy and Bess and Silent Night at Houston Grand Opera, and Guys and Dolls at Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C., for which he was nominated for a 2026 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Sound Design. Upcoming productions include New/Now with Performing Arts Houston and West Side Story with Washington National Opera.
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