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Robert E. Cohen Sound
Achievement Award
The Awards for Young Designers, Managers & Technicians in the Performing Arts,
known throughout USITT as the YDMT Awards, bring recognition and support to
young designers, managers, and technicians at the beginning of their careers. They
are made possible by generous gifts to USITT from their sponsors.
2021 Winner: Zachory Ivans
Zachory Ivans is a sound designer and engineer
in his last year of the MFA program
in sound design and technology at The
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music (CCM). He enjoys designing content
and systems for all live entertainment events,
but his emphasis has been in sound design for
theatre. As a sound designer, he is most interested
in advancing the use of immersive audio
and through that technology creating visceral
experiences for audiences. To that end, he
has trained on and deployed L-Acoustics'
L-ISA, d&b's Soundscape, and BlackTrax,
with plans to utilize Meyer's Spacemap Go
this Spring. His recent CCM credits include
The Secret Garden, Our Country's Good,
Lady Windermere's Fan, The Bartered Bride,
and Hope After Hate. When Ivans isn't designing
sound for live productions, he is typically
designing and programming audio-visual systems
for an AV integrator as head AV design
engineer and programmer. After graduation,
Ivans is hoping to move to New York to continue
his work in the audio-visual industry, but
more importantly, to help facilitate the growth
of immersive audio on Broadway and beyond.
Distinguished Achievement Award,
Sound Design and Technology
The Distinguished Achievement Awards honor individuals who have established meritorious
career records in specific fields of expertise in any area of design or technology
in the performing arts or entertainment industry.
2021 Winner: Carin Ford
Carin Ford, sound engineer, received her BA
degree in speech and theatre from St. Olaf
College in Northfield, Minnesota. Immediately
after graduating, she moved to New York City
and attended The Center for the Media Arts
to study audio engineering and the Juilliard
School to participate in an internship program
for technical theatre. After completing the
Juilliard program, she was hired to take over the
FOH mix on the tour of The Search for Signs
of Intelligent Life in the Universe staring Lily
Tomlin, written and directed by Jane Wagner.
Following that tour, Ford worked on more than
30 shows, including national and international
tours such as Mamma Mia, Beauty and the
Beast, Les Miserables, and City of Angeles. Her
Broadway credits include the most recent production
of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. In
addition, Ford mixed Carousel (Revival), Hello
Dolly starring Bette Midler, Shuffle Along, An
American In Paris, Bullets Over Broadway, Big
Fish, Bring It On, and many other shows. In addition
to theatrical work, Ford has mixed shows
for Black Entertainment Television (BET) and
has done postproduction sound effects editing
for several independent films.
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