Ensemble Bios

John Lott

Mr John Lott returns to The Shaw this season as the sound designer for Ragtime. He made his debut at the Shaw Festival as Sound Designer for Jerry Herman’s musical Mack and Mabel and Hotel Peccadillo.

A Toronto native, John has been designing sound for theatre for the past 20 years throughout North America.  As owner and operator of Sounds Alive since 1990, John has toured Canada with Showboat, Sunset Boulevard, and Phantom of The Opera, and toured internationally with The Kids in The Hall, Riverdance The Show and KODO Drummers of Japan as their designer and engineer.

Selected musical design credits include The Fantasticks, Oh What a Lovely War, The Odd Couple, Ghosts, Parfumerie, The Threepenny Opera (Soulpepper Theatre Company); Story of My Life, Side by Side by Sondheim, Cookin’ at the Cookery, Sweeney Todd, and Larry’s Party (Canadian Stage Company); Songs for a New World, Sound of Music (Citadel Theatre); Dracula (Charlottetown Festival), Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda, (Marquis Entertainment). He has also designed at the Charlottetown Festival, the Stratford Festival and the Atlantic Theatre Festival.