Nate Edmondson
- Composer
- Editor
- Director
Nate is an international, multi-award winning composer, sound designer, and musical director for film, television, radio, advertising, and stage.
Nate trained as both a classical and jazz trombonist, and pianist, in addition to fronting several bands as a multi-instrumentalist singer / songwriter and arranger.
Now based in Sydney, Nate is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), where he trained under the mentorship of some of Australia's finest composers and sound designers. Nate has worked extensively in the theatre and live events industries for over a decade, and his detailed music scores and sound designs can regularly be heard on stages around the world. Locally, he has created work for some of Australia's premier theatre and dance companies, and arts festivals, with much of his work touring both nationally and internationally.
In 2015 and 2016 respectively, his work on the critically acclaimed productions of 'Misterman' and 'Good With Maps' both earned him a Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Score / Sound Design. In 2018, his work as sound designer with Sydney Theatre Company on the two-part stage epic, 'The Harp In The South' garnered multiple award nominations, including a prestigious Helpmann Award nomination for Best Sound Design. Further to individual accolades, Nate has been a part of countless award-winning productions around Australia.
On the international stage, Nate has written music for productions that have toured throughout America, Asia, and Europe. The UK remount of his score and sound design for 'All My Sons', with the UK's Street Theatre, earned him the Brian Dyer Trophy for Best Score / Sound Design as part of the Phoebe Rees Competition for the Somerset Fellowship of Drama. His celebrated score for 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show' helped smash Off-Broadway box office records in the US in 2016, and again in 2017, and led to Drama Desk Awards and Off-Broadway Alliance Awards nominations, followed by multiple sold out seasons on London's West End. Nate's work on these productions have been seen by more than one million children across the world, and growing.
Beyond theatre, dance, and live events, Nate also produces music for television, radio, online media, short films, VR, mobile apps, podcasts, and commercial advertising, as well as a wide range of stand-alone and commissioned compositions for both screen and stage. His television composition work has featured on the ABC in Australia, and his short film work has been screened at film festivals around the world.
Nate also lectures in theatre production, technical audio and sound design at many of Australia's top arts academies and universities. He also acts as an activist and advocate in NSW for the promotion of stage composers, sound designers and other independent theatre artists.
Nate trained as both a classical and jazz trombonist, and pianist, in addition to fronting several bands as a multi-instrumentalist singer / songwriter and arranger.
Now based in Sydney, Nate is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), where he trained under the mentorship of some of Australia's finest composers and sound designers. Nate has worked extensively in the theatre and live events industries for over a decade, and his detailed music scores and sound designs can regularly be heard on stages around the world. Locally, he has created work for some of Australia's premier theatre and dance companies, and arts festivals, with much of his work touring both nationally and internationally.
In 2015 and 2016 respectively, his work on the critically acclaimed productions of 'Misterman' and 'Good With Maps' both earned him a Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Score / Sound Design. In 2018, his work as sound designer with Sydney Theatre Company on the two-part stage epic, 'The Harp In The South' garnered multiple award nominations, including a prestigious Helpmann Award nomination for Best Sound Design. Further to individual accolades, Nate has been a part of countless award-winning productions around Australia.
On the international stage, Nate has written music for productions that have toured throughout America, Asia, and Europe. The UK remount of his score and sound design for 'All My Sons', with the UK's Street Theatre, earned him the Brian Dyer Trophy for Best Score / Sound Design as part of the Phoebe Rees Competition for the Somerset Fellowship of Drama. His celebrated score for 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show' helped smash Off-Broadway box office records in the US in 2016, and again in 2017, and led to Drama Desk Awards and Off-Broadway Alliance Awards nominations, followed by multiple sold out seasons on London's West End. Nate's work on these productions have been seen by more than one million children across the world, and growing.
Beyond theatre, dance, and live events, Nate also produces music for television, radio, online media, short films, VR, mobile apps, podcasts, and commercial advertising, as well as a wide range of stand-alone and commissioned compositions for both screen and stage. His television composition work has featured on the ABC in Australia, and his short film work has been screened at film festivals around the world.
Nate also lectures in theatre production, technical audio and sound design at many of Australia's top arts academies and universities. He also acts as an activist and advocate in NSW for the promotion of stage composers, sound designers and other independent theatre artists.
