Scott Burgess is a Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

-based American audio engineer, composer, sound designer, voice over artist and performer. In the category of Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production, he is a ten-time nominee and a two-time winner of the Helen Hayes Award

Helen Hayes Award

A Helen Hayes Award is a theater award named for the famed actress Helen Hayes to recognize excellence in professional theater in the Washington, D.C. area since 1983. The awards are managed by Linda Levy Grossman. and presented by the Washington Theatre Awards Society.-Awards:The Helen Hayes...

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Biography

Burgess grew up in Texas and attended the University of North Texas

University of North Texas

The University of North Texas is a public institution of higher education and research in Denton. Founded in 1890, UNT is part of the University of North Texas System. As of the fall of 2010, the University of North Texas, Denton campus, had a certified enrollment of 36,067...

 from 1982 to 1985 in Denton, Texas

Denton, Texas

The city of Denton is the county seat of Denton County, Texas in the United States. Its population was 119,454 according to the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the eleventh largest city in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex...

. While an undergraduate student there, he studied jazz performance and musical composition as well as film and video production.

After college, Burgess moved to Washington D.C. where he recorded and produced original music and sound-scapes for theatrical productions. His original sound designs for theater are often created to comment explicitly on the action of the play, such as risqué movie quotes from John Wayne or the double entendre of Cole Porter's Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) for a provocative play such as Psychopathia Sexualis.

Burgess has been called The Music Man by The Washington Post

The Washington Post

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 because he composes sound designs and film scores based on a wide variety of instruments, influences and sampled sounds. In 2004, Burgess composed a film score for the documentary Crucible of War, about a refugee from Yugoslavia haunted by his past who returns to his post-war homeland.

Helen Hayes Awards

1997	Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production
	Quills, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provoking...	Nomination
1998	Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production
	Romeo and Juliet, Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period...	Award Recipient
1998	Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production
	Travels WIth My Aunt, Rep Stage Rep Stage Rep Stage, was founded in 1993 by Artistic Director Valerie Lash. It is a professional Equity theatre based in Howard County, Maryland. Rep Stage has won 7 Helen Hayes Awards, garnered 37 nominations, received 6 Greater Baltimore Theater Awards and received consistent high critical acclaim from the...	Nomination
1999	Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production
	Seven Guitars, The Studio Theatre Studio Theatre (Washington D.C.) The Studio Theatre is a non-profit theater production company located at 1501 14th Street NW, Washington DC in the 14th Street corridor of Washington, D.C...	Nomination
2000	Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production
	The Adding Machine, Washington Jewish Theatre	Nomination
2001	Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production
	The Mystery of Irma Vep (a penny dreadful), Rep Stage Rep Stage Rep Stage, was founded in 1993 by Artistic Director Valerie Lash. It is a professional Equity theatre based in Howard County, Maryland. Rep Stage has won 7 Helen Hayes Awards, garnered 37 nominations, received 6 Greater Baltimore Theater Awards and received consistent high critical acclaim from the...	Nomination
2001	Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production
	The Tempest, Folger Theatre Folger Shakespeare Library The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period...	Award Recipient
2003	Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production
	Knoyugogh, Little Globe Theater	Nomination
2003	Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production
	Othello, Folger Theatre Folger Shakespeare Library The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period...	Nomination
2004	Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production
	Elizabeth the Queen, Folger Theatre Folger Shakespeare Library The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period...	Nomination

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