Derek A. Graham is a sound designer, composer, and audio engineer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is an avid enthusiast and practicioner of music and sound, utilizing its creative (yet technical) applications across multiple forms of performing arts mediums not limited to CONCERT, theatre, podcasting, and visual media.
A native of jamaica, NY, graham was exposed to music and theatre through childhood involvement as an actor in community theatre productions and singing gospel in a baptist youth choir from the age of five up to his teen years (His Carolinian years). Those abilities would eventually, and somewhat subversively, heel turn into music production, writing, mixing and recording songs for hip hop, soul, and R&B. His musicality and technical prowess in audio has only evolved through the many stages of his educational and professional development, receiving a bachelor of arts in music/sound recording (Elizabeth City State University) and a master of fine arts in production design and technology/sound (Ohio University).
Derek's works in sound design include What the constitution means to me (CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE); What we Look Like (Dobama Theatre); Fat Ham and They Do Not KNow Harlem (Playmakers Repertory Company); Detroit '67 (Baldwin-Wallace University Theater); I Shall Not Be Moved and Your Negro Tour Guide (Ensemble Theatre Cincinatti/Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022); music compositions include THE FOLKS AT HOME (INDIANA REPERTORY THEATER); MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (CLEVELAND PLAYHOUSE); The Chinese Lady (Artists Repertory Theatre); in Every Generation (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley); and Incident at Our Lady of PErpetual Help (Asolo Repertory TheatRE).
A native of jamaica, NY, graham was exposed to music and theatre through childhood involvement as an actor in community theatre productions and singing gospel in a baptist youth choir from the age of five up to his teen years (His Carolinian years). Those abilities would eventually, and somewhat subversively, heel turn into music production, writing, mixing and recording songs for hip hop, soul, and R&B. His musicality and technical prowess in audio has only evolved through the many stages of his educational and professional development, receiving a bachelor of arts in music/sound recording (Elizabeth City State University) and a master of fine arts in production design and technology/sound (Ohio University).
Derek's works in sound design include What the constitution means to me (CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE); What we Look Like (Dobama Theatre); Fat Ham and They Do Not KNow Harlem (Playmakers Repertory Company); Detroit '67 (Baldwin-Wallace University Theater); I Shall Not Be Moved and Your Negro Tour Guide (Ensemble Theatre Cincinatti/Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022); music compositions include THE FOLKS AT HOME (INDIANA REPERTORY THEATER); MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (CLEVELAND PLAYHOUSE); The Chinese Lady (Artists Repertory Theatre); in Every Generation (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley); and Incident at Our Lady of PErpetual Help (Asolo Repertory TheatRE).
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