Tom Gibbons

Sound Designer & Composer

Awards

2016 - Olivier Award for Best Sound Design for People, Places & Things at National Theatre, Dorfman

Nominations

2024 - Olivier Awards - Best Sound Design for Dear England at The Royal National Theatre

2022 - Olivier Awards - Best New Play for Best of Enemies at the Young Vic, for which Tim designed the Sound

2020 Drama Desk Awards - Best Sound Design in a Musical for West Side Story

2018 - Olivier Awards - Best Sound Design for Hamlet at the Almeida Theatre

2018 - Tony Awards - Best Sound Design for a Play for 1984

2018 - Drama Desk Awards - Outstanding Sound Design in a Play for 1984 and People, Places & Things

2015 - Olivier Awards - Best Sound Design for A View From The Bridge at the Young Vic & Wyndham's Theatre


Tom Gibbons is a Sound Designer and Composer for theatre, musical theatre, film and live installation.


Animal Farm - Birmingham Rep
It is superbly done.
— ★★★★★ - The Times
People Places Things - Wyndham’s Theatre
... Tom Gibbons’ often terrifying sound design add to the woozy sense of disorientation and alienation.
— ★★★★ The Telegraph
A View From The Bridge - Lyceum Theater
Mr. van Hove’s “Bridge” is, if anything, even more relentless in its aura of grim predestination. The music we hear from the beginning is that of an insistently throbbing requiem. Other subliminal noises — of distant thunder and drums — tune our nerves into a state of perpetual foreboding. (Tom Gibbons is the Sound Designer)
— NY Times

Gallery


2024

Production

Company

Opening Night Gielgud Theatre, Dir. Ivo Van Hove
Long Day's Journey Into Night Wyndham's Theatre, Dir. Jeremy Herrin
Passing Strange Young Vic, London, Dir. Liesl Tommy

2023

Production

Company

Dear England The National Theatre, Dir. Rupert Goold, Co-Sound Design with Dan Balfour
Grey House Lyceum Theatre, New York, Dir. Joe Mantello
Deadman Walking The Metropolitan Opera, New York, Dir. Ivo Van Hove, Set and Lighting Des. Jan Versweyveld, Costume Des. An D’Huys, Projection Des. Christopher Ash
Here We Are The Shed, New York, Dir. Joe Mantello

2022

Production

Company

Best of Enemies Noël Coward Theatre, London, Dir. Jeremy Herrin
The Doctor Duke of York's Theatre, Dir. Rob Icke
Hamlet Park Avenue Armory, New York, Dir. Rob Icke
Animal Farm UK Tour, Dir. Rob Icke
Judas International Theatre Amsterdam, Dir. Rob Icke
Good National Theatre, Dir. Dominic Cooke
PoliNation Edinburgh/Birmingham, Dir. Trigger Collective

2021

Production

Company

After Life National Theatre - The Dorfman, Dir. Jeremy Herrin
Best of Enemies Young Vic, Dir. Jeremy Herrin
The Doctor Internationaal Theater Amsterdam & Burgtheater, Dir. Rob Icke

2020

Production

Company

Cabaret Göteborg Opera, Dir. James Grieve
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Booth Theatre New York, Dir. Joe Mantello
West Side Story Broadway Theatre New York, Dir. Ivo van Hove, Set & Lighting Des. Jan Versweyveld, Costume Des. An D'Huys

2019

Production

Company

All About Eve Harold Pinter, Dir. Ivo van Hove, Set & Lighting Des. Jan Versweyveld, Costume Des. An D'Huys
Home, I’m Darling Duke of York’s, Dir. Tamara Harvey, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter
Pah-La Royal Court, Dir. Debbie Hannan
Our Town Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Dir. Ellen McDougall, Movement Dir. Sasha Milavic Davies
The End of History Royal Court, Dir. John Tiffany
The Doctor The Almeida, Dir. Rob Icke
The Antipodes National Theatre - The Dorfman, Dirs. Annie Baker and Chloe Lamford, Movement Dir. Sasha Milavic Davies

2018

Production

Company

Fanny and Alexander The Old Vic, Dir. Max Webster
Oedipus Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Dir. Rob Icke
Home, I'm Darling Theatre Clwyd, Dir. Tamara Harvery, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter
The Woods Royal Court, Dir. Lucy Morrison
Wild Duck The Almeida, Dir. Rob Icke
Madness of King George III Nottingham Playhouse, Dir. Adam Penford
Oresteia Stuttgart, Dir. Rob Icke
The Crucible Theatre Basel, Dir. Rob Icke, Des. Chloe Lamford

2017

Production

Company

Hamlet The Almeida, Dir. Rob Icke
Obsession The Barbican, Dir. Ivo van Hove
Life of Galileo Young Vic, Dir. Joe Wright
1984 Broadway , Dir. Rob Icke, Des. Chloe Lamford, Video Des. Tim Reid
Hamlet Harold Pinter Theatre, Dir. Rob Icke
People, Places and Things St Ann's New York, Dir, Jeremy Herrin
Hedda Garbla UK Tour, Dir. Ivo van Hove, Set & Lighting Des. Jan Versweyveld, Costume Des. An D'huys
Venus in Fur Theatre Royal Haymarket, Dir. Patrick Marber
The Lorax Old Vic, Dir. Max Webster
Goats Royal Court Downstairs, Dir. Hamish Pirie
The Lorax Toronto, Dir Max Webster

2016

Production

Company

The Crucible Walter Kerr New York, Dir. Ivo van Hove
People, Places and Things Wyndhams Theatre, London, Dir. Jeremy Herrin
Sunset at the Villa Thalia National Theatre - The Dorfman, Dir. Simon Godwin
Les Misérables Karlstad Sweden, Dir. James Grieve
The Red Barn National Theatre - The Lyttleton, Dir. Rob Icke
Trilogy Kings Cross Theatre, Dir. Phyllida Lloyd
Hedda Gabler National Theatre - The Lyttleton Dir, Ivo van Hove, Set & Lighting Des. Jan Versweyveld, Costume Des. An D'huys