Additional Information:
Teaching Areas: Sound Design
Full Time contract faculty member
Date of Hire: August 2012
Biography:
Joe Court is excited to join the Ball State Faculty. Joe is a professional sound designer who has been based out of Chicago since 2006. He is a company member with Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company. He has designed over 70 shows since moving to Chicago for many different theatre companies including Mary-Arrchie, A Red Orchid, The Inconvenience, Seanachai, TheatreSeven, Backstage, Boho, Emerald City, Lifeline, Pine Box, The Gift, The Clarence Brown Theatre (Knoxville, TN.) and The Illinois Shakespeare Festival. From 2008 until coming to Ball State Joe served as Sound Engineer for the Chicago production of the Tony Award winning musical Million Dollar Quartet. He received a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination in 2009 for his design for
The Unseen with A Red Orchid Theatre. He holds a B.S. in Theatre Production and Design and an M.S. in Arts-Technology from Illinois State Universtiy.