Chris Wenn by ReVerse Butcher (2019)

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Chris Wenn is an award-winning sound designer for theatre, based in Melbourne, Australia. His creative practice has largely been in the independent and small-company sector, and he has developed and performed work extensively across Australia, in Indonesia, Singapore, the UK, and Europe. This has included extensive experience in text-based performance and devised work, including work for young people and people with disabilities.

His sound design and compositions have featured in productions by Malthouse, Liminal Theatre, St Martins Youth Theatre, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Sarah Austin & Collaborators, accessibility theatre company rollercoaster, and internationally at Esplanade – Theatres by the Bay, Singapore. Interdisciplinary and experimental collaborations include performances, animations, and recorded works with noted spoken word/visual artists Kylie Supski and ReVerse Butcher. He was co-chair of the Green Room Awards Association’s Independent Theatre Panel in 2018 and 2019.

Chris has received Green Room Award nominations for Sound for his work on The Trouble With Harry (MKA/Darebin Arts Speakeasy/Melbourne Festival 2014) and Rust and Bone (La Mama, 2016), and was the recipient of the Straits Times ‘Life!’ Theatre Award for the Sound Design of In The Silence of Your Heart (2018) at Esplanade – Theatres by the Bay, Singapore.

Ensemble and Production awards for works on which Chris was a collaborating artist include: Green Room Awards for Production (Independent Theatre) for The Trouble With Harry, and for Liminal Theatre’s Oedipus - A Poetic Requiem (2008); the Melbourne Fringe Award for Best Kids Event for Sarah Austin & Collaborators’s Only A Year (2017); and a Drama Victoria Award for Best Innovative Curriculum/Education Program or Project, for Malthouse’s Suitcase Series: Atomic (2018).

Chris was also one half of the Punch Drunk DJs, and can occasionally be seen spinning an eclectic blend of post-punk and weird electronics as The Upstart. Chris performs with foundational post-punk noise band Primitive Calculators as well as his own project S.C. 1978 COOLO, and collaborates extensively with other experimental artists.

Chris occasionally inhabits social media at: octodon.social