Bio
Arshan Gailus’ music and soundscapes have been heard at ArtsEmerson, The Huntington Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, The Guthrie, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Capital Repertory Theatre, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, A.R.T Institute, The Lyric Stage Company, New Repertory Theater, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Harvard College, Brandeis University, The Nora Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage, Gloucester Stage, and Company One.
Arshan was awarded the 2016 IRNE Award for Best Sound Design (Small Theater) for appropriate by the SpeakEasy Stage Company. Arshan was also a member of the Elliot Norton Award winning design teams for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Company One, 2012) and Twelfth Night (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, 2011).
Other previous work includes teaching theatrical sound design at Emerson College and creating music and sound for independent video games in the Boston area and internationally.
Arshan holds a B.S. in Music from MIT, having studied composition, instrumental performance, psychoacoustics, computer science, and electrical engineering and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. Arshan has studied classical saxophone with Ken Radnofsky and Philipp Stäudlin.
Member, United Scenic Artists Local USA 829
Sound Design Production History
* indicates Original Music in addition to Sound Design
| 2025 | Her Portmanteau | Central Square Theater and Front Porch Arts Collective | Tasia A. Jones, dir. |
| *The Fig Tree, and The Phoenix, and The Desire to be Reborn | Boston Playwrights' Theatre | Nikta Sabouri, dir. | |
| 2024 | Tipping the Velvet | Ohio University School of Theater | Caitlin Lopez, dir. |
| *Caucus: After the FallA podcast audio drama | Entertaining Diversity | Teja Arboleda, dir. | |
| *Mr. Parent | Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park | Megan Sandberg-Zakian, dir. | |
| Yellowface | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Ted Hewlett, dir. | |
| 2023 | *Mr. ParentAlso presented at Geva Theatre | Boston Playwrights' Theatre | Megan Sandberg-Zakian, dir. |
| 2022 | *Mala | The Old Globe | David Dower, dir. |
| *A Walk in the Woods | Shakespeare & Company | James Warwick, dir. | |
| 2021 | *Mr. ParentWorld Premiere | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Megan Sandberg-Zakian, dir. |
| 2020 | *Corduroy | Emerson Stage | Melia Bensussen, dir. |
| The Gorn Galaxy | Forum for Cultural Engagement | Megan Sandberg-Zakian, dir. | |
| *Good Breeding | Emerson Stage | Elaine Vaan Hogue, dir. | |
| *The Cake | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Courtney O’Connor, dir. | |
| 2019 | *Lobby Hero | Capital Repertory Theatre | Megan Sandberg-Zakian, dir. |
| *The History Plays | Plays in Place/Mount Auburn Cemetery | Courtney O’Connor, dir. | |
| *House of Joy | California Shakespeare Theater | Megan Sandberg-Zakian, dir. | |
| *Twelfth Night | Shakespeare & Company | Allyn Burrows, dir. | |
| The Nature Plays | Plays in Place/Mount Auburn Cemetery | Courtney O’Connor, dir. | |
| Everybody | Suffolk University | Anna Kohler, dir. | |
| *What Remains Hidden (Is Still Known) | Emerson Stage | Rinde Eckert, dir. | |
| 2018 | *The Royale | Capital Repertory Theatre | Megan Sandberg-Zakian, dir. |
| *As You Like It | Shakespeare & Company | Allyn Burrows, dir. | |
| *Dancing at Lughnasa | Gloucester Stage Company | Benny Sato Ambush, dir. | |
| Three Americanisms | Harvard Theater, Dance & Media | Paul Lazar, dir. | |
| Antigone Project | Emerson Stage | David R. Gammons, dir. | |
| Death and the Maiden | Commonwealth Shakespeare Company | Steven Maler, dir. | |
| 2017 | *Hold These Truths | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Benny Sato Ambush, dir. |
| Kiss | ArtsEmerson | David Dower, dir. | |
| Oleanna | New Repertory Theater | Elaine Vaan Hogue, dir. | |
| Exit the King | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Dmitry Troyanovsky, dir. | |
| *The Tempest | Shakespeare & Company | Allyn Burrows, dir. | |
| Titanic | Emerson Stage | Scott Lafeber, dir. | |
| *Stage Kiss | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Courtney O'Connor, dir. | |
| 2016 | *The Tempest | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Allyn Burrows, dir. |
| *Martyr | Brandeis University | Dmitry Troyanovsky, dir. | |
| MalaArtsImpulse Award nomination Also presented at The Guthrie Theater (2017) and The Huntington Theatre (2018) |
ArtsEmerson | David Dower, dir. | |
| *Hamlet | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Doug Lockwood, dir. | |
| *Marjorie Prime | Nora Theatre Company | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. | |
| *Fast Company | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. | |
| *Richard II | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Allyn Burrows, dir. | |
| 2015 | Macbeth | Brandeis University | Zoë Golub-Sass, dir. |
| *O Beautiful | Emerson Stage | Benny Sato Ambush, dir. | |
| appropriateIRNE Award Elliot Norton Award nomination |
SpeakEasy Stage Company | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. | |
| The New Electric Ballroom | Gloucester Stage Company | Robert Walsh, dir. | |
| *World Builders | Contemporary American Theater Festival | Nicole A. Watson, dir. | |
| Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief | American Repertory Theatre Institute | Melia Bensussen, dir. | |
| Merrily We Roll Along | Emerson Stage | Scott Lafeber, dir. | |
| Uncommon Women, and Others | Emerson Stage | Maureen Shea, dir. | |
| 2014 | *Phèdre | Actors' Shakespeare Project | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. |
| Dancing at Lughnasa | Emerson Stage | Courtney O'Connor, dir. | |
| *Becoming Cuba | Huntington Theatre Company | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. | |
| *The Cherry Orchard | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Melia Bensussen, dir. | |
| 2013 | Splendor | Company One | Shawn LaCount, dir. |
| *Romeo and Juliet | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Bobbie Steinbach and Allyn Burrows, dirs. | |
| TribesIRNE Award nomination | SpeakEasy Stage Company | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. | |
| *Pericles | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Allyn Burrows, dir. | |
| Clybourne Park | SpeakEasy Stage Company | M. Bevin O'Gara, dir. | |
| Lungs | New Repertory Theater | Bridget Kathleen O’Leary, dir. | |
| 2012 | *Chinglish | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Larry Coen, dir. |
| Macbeth | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Paula Plum, dir. | |
| *The Elaborate Entrance of Chad DeityElliot Norton Award IRNE Award nomination |
Company One | Shawn LaCount, dir. | |
| Avenue Q | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Spiro Veloudos, dir. | |
| *The Temperamentals | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Jeremy Johnson, dir. | |
| Superior Donuts | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Spiro Veloudos, dir. | |
| 2011 | *The Divine Sister | SpeakEasy Stage Company | Larry Coen, dir. |
| Twelfth NightElliot Norton Award | Actors' Shakespeare Project | Melia Bensussen, dir. | |
| 1001 | Company One | Megan Sandberg-Zakian, dir. | |
| *The Understudy | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Larry Coen, dir. | |
| 2010 | *GRIMM | Company One | Shawn LaCount and Summer Williams, dirs. |
| Blithe Spirit | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Spiro Veloudos, dir. | |
| *Legacy of Light | Lyric Stage Company of Boston | Lois Roach, dir. | |
| The Sing Song Show | Boston Arts Academy | Rosalind Thomas-Clark, dir. | |
| 2009 | The Overwhelming | Company One | Shawn LaCount, dir. |
| *after the quake | Company One | Shawn LaCount, dir. | |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts | Robert Knapp, dir. | |
| 2008 | *Voyeurs de Venus | Company One | Summer Williams, dir. |