Jay Jones

 

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Membership level
Professional Member
First name
Jay
Last name
Jones
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+447732 208 648
 

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Primary Job title
Sound Design, Project Manager & Audio Mix Engineer
 

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City
Frome
Country
United Kingdom
 

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Public Directory
  • Associate Sound Designer (With over 25 Professional Credits)
  • Fitup/Strike Crew (With over 25 Professional Credits)
  • No.1 (With over 25 Professional Credits)
  • Production Sound Engineer (With over 25 Professional Credits)
  • Show Control Programmer (With over 25 Professional Credits)
  • Sound Designer (With 5-25 Professional Credits)
What I'm working on at the moment
Jay is currently working as a freelance theatre Sound Designer, and Associate

Event & Operations Producer for Wise Children, and the Director of J-Type Audio
Biog
Design Work: The Constituent (Old Vic London), A Sound of 007 in Concert (Royal Albert Hall), Groundhog Day The Musical, (Old Vic Theatre), Crazy for You (Gillian Lynne Theatre Westend), Headcase (Bush Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Robin Hood (Watermill Theatre), OV 200 Gala (Old Vic) London), Gate Gala (St Paul’s Hammersmith), Plastic (Ustinov Studio Bath), Malory Towers (Passenger Shed), Standing At The Sky’s Edge (Crucible Theatre), Brief Encounter (Kneehigh/Empire Cinema, Haymarket), The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios), The Little Match Girl (Bristol Old Vic, UK tour & Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), A Christmas Carol (Old Vic), Romantics Anonymous (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Girl From the North Country (Old Vic/Noël Coward Theatre), Tristan and Yseult (Kneehigh UK tour), Dead Dog in a Suitcase (Kneehigh UK & international tour), 946 (Kneehigh Asylum, UK & international tour).

As Recording, Post-Production Mix and Mastering Engineer: Women of the World Festival 2021 (online), Darcy Bussell British Ballet Gala (Royal Opera House online), Global Stages (Royal Albert Hall), Best of the West End (BBC Radio 2), The Grinning Man live cast album.

As Audio Project Manager for the Royal Albert Hall, Jay has led on events such as Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man, The BAFTA Film Awards, James Bond: No Time To Die world film premiere, Magic at the Musicals, Classic FM Live, Trevor Nelson’s Soul Christmas, Royal Philharmonic concert series, Letters Live, Ronnie Scott’s 60th Anniversary, Global Citizen Awards, Nitin Sawhney, HRVY live stream, Kano, Bonobo, Ry X, Guy Barker’s Big Band and Emma Bunton’s Christmas Party.

Jay is currently Event & Operations Producer for Wise Children, leading on ‘The Lucky Chance’ Wise Children’s new space and artistic home in Frome.

Jay was Head of Sound at Shakespeare's Globe, under the artistic leadership of Emma Rice. Leading on the creative and installation of the first ever sound system at The Globe.

Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Areas you work in:
  • Theatre
  • Studio Recording Engineer
  • Sound Effects Production
  • TV / Film post production
  • VR/AR/360/Spatial Audio
  • Live Music
  • Installed Sound
  • Corporate Events
  • Hires
  • Project Manager