HOWARD PATTERSON
(he/him) is a Pittsburgh-based sound designer, audio engineer, and educator. Howard is the Assistant Teaching Professor of Sound Design at University of Pittsburgh. He has worked on many projects in Pittsburgh and beyond and is passionate about sonic storytelling. Recent designs have been heard at City Theatre Company, TheatreSquared, Virginia Stage Company, and Pittsburgh Playhouse. He is also the Vice Co-Chair of Design, Technology & Management for the American College Theater Festival, Region II. Howard received his BFA from Point Park University. In his spare time not spent in the theater, he is a pro wrestler in- training.
Upcoming Designs:
Malcolm X and Red Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy's Chicken Shack in Harlem Dallas Theater Center
Selected Press:
"We’re delightedly yanked from one register to the next not only through the actors’ expert shift in playing style but also via beautifully choreographed sound (Howard Patterson) and lighting (John D. Alexander) design" - Pittsburgh Tatler
"One particularly important element of the production that deserves close attention is the soundscape. Kudos to Howard Patterson’s sound design. Although the show centers on the relationship between the two characters, it is through sound that many of the conflicts enter the stage. When the dining room door opens, we hear the pleasant music enjoyed by the restaurant’s customers (a sonic marker of class conflict and workplace inequality). And from the radio strategically positioned above the sink where the dishes are washed, we hear not only period music but, crucially, radio news broadcasts, as an essential narrative device that stitches together what we see onstage with what remains offstage: riots, police repression, violence, and the Black community’s uprising against centuries of oppression and inequality"- Onstage Pittsburgh
"Light design by C. Todd Brown and sound design by Howard Patterson effectively accomplish the heavy lifting of infusing the space with a supernatural aura"- Pittsburgh City Paper