Ranil Sonnadara

Sound Designer

Ranil Sonnadara is an award-winning UK-trained theatrical sound designer, lighting designer, and composer, who moved to Canada in 1998 to pursue research in psychoacoustics and forgot to leave. He is now based in Hamilton, Ontario. In his “spare time” Ranil is the Head of Sound Design for the Stratford Festival, Creative Director of the McMaster University’s LIVELab, and Director of McMaster’s Performance Science Lab. 

Select production credits include:

For Theatre Aquarius: A Christmas Story, the Musical; Beautiful Scars; Frozen, the Broadway Musical; Red; Steel City Gangster; The Extinction Therapist; The Father; The Invisible Hand; The Nether.

Other: Barnum; Beauty and the Beast; Chris, Mrs.; Coriolanus; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Evita; Grand Magic; Hamlet; Into The Woods; Jesus Christ Superstar; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; London Assurance; Little Shop of Horrors; Peter Pan; Pirates of Penzance; Rocky; Saturday, Sunday, Monday; Sweeney Todd; The Fantasticks; The Sound of Music; The Tempest; The Winter’s Tale.

Instagram: @ranilmakesnoise