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Victoria (toy) Deiorio
Combining her previous careers in acting and songwriting, Victoria Deiorio is a critically acclaimed sound designer and composer for theatre, based in Chicago.
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Combining her previous careers in ballet, acting and songwriting, Victoria Deiorio is a critically acclaimed sound designer and composer for theatre. With a BFA in Musical Theatre from Syracuse University, and studying classical acting in London at RADA and LAMDA, she transitioned from the performance artistry to the technical. She has also written a few plays and musicals, directed, production managed, and produced theatre.
Her book The Art of Theatrical Sound Design - A Practical Guide was published 9/2018.
Her compositions and sound design have been heard in many theatres over the past 21 years. Off-Broadway sound design: Dracula! A Comedy of Terrors[i] (New World Stages); [i]Nine Circles (Sheen Center); A Christmas Carol (St. Clements); Two Point Oh with Active Theatre (Primary Stages); Arnie the Doughnut at the NYMTF (The Pearl); Cassies Chimera at Joes Pub (The Public); The Bluest Eye with Steppenwolf (The Duke Theatre); Ophelia at the NYC Fringe Fest (The Connelly); The God of Hell at the Actors Studio (Associate); Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams at Primary Stages (Associate); Live Girls at Urban Stages (Associate); Luminescence Dating at Ensemble Studio Theatre (Associate); and Boy at Primary Stages (Associate).
Regionally she has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Goodman, Steppenwolf Theatre, Court Theatre, LA Theatre Works, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Centerstage Baltimore, Syracuse Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Delaware Theatre Company, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory, Notre Dame Summer Shakespeare, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Florida Stage, American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, First Stage Milwaukee, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Peninsula Players, Birmingham Childrens Theatre, and others. In Chicago she has designed productions with Firebrand Theatre, Writers Theatre, The Next Theatre, Remy Bumppo, Irish Theatre of Chicago, Teatro Vista, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, American Blues, Lifeline, Light Opera Works, and many other storefront theaters.
She was an Associate Artistic Director with COR theatre, a founding member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, an artistic associate with The Next Theatre, and a member of Lifeline Theatre.
She directed Skin Tight with COR theatre; Falling: A Wake with Rivendell Theatre Ensemble; Mami, Whered My O Go with COR theatre; Stigmata (which she also wrote) for RTEs Fresh Produce; a staged reading of Night Light by Robert Smith; Sunday on the Rocks with Second Sex at Bailiwick Theatre; 365 Days, 365 Plays - Week 19 and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! at Lifeline Theatre.
She composed Dirty Cowboy and Flight of the Dodo � 2 childrens musicals for Lifeline Theatre.
She is the first woman to have been nominated for 15 Joseph Jefferson Awards - winning 7 - and she has received 2 After Dark Awards and a SALT Award. Victoria was the head of Sound Design at DePaul University.
And shes produced 2 CDs of original music with her band ToyBand. |
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