Bradlee Ward is a New York City based Sound Designer and Audiovisual consultant who designs sound and video systems for Immersive Theatre, Live Events, and Spaces.
AV System Design Projects include: Huntington Theatre, Chelsea Factory, Park Avenue Synagogue. Brad is also a freelance sound designer. Sound Design credits include: I Need That – Broadway, Bedlam’s King Lear, York Theatre’s Penelope. Associate design credits: Choir Boy, (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Rose Tattoo, Bernhardt Hamlet. Previously, Brad was the Lead Audio System Tech for Cirque du Soleil’s The Beatles LOVE.
Brad is the chair of the Sound Design Sub-commission for Organisation Internationale des Scénographes, Techniciens et Architectes de Théâtre (OISTAT) and was the curator for Sound Kitchen in Taipei 2017 and Calgary 2022. He is the sound system designer for Transcendent Renaissance at World Stage Design 2025.
Other affiliations include United States Institute for Theatre Technology (vice commissioner and international sound representative), AVIXA – Certified Technology Specialist – Design (CTS-D), Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (US) (Founding member, Education Committee), Association of Sound Designers (UK) (Founding member).
Brad holds an MFA degree in Sound Design from Yale School of Drama.