Recipient
John Gromada
Hewes Design Awards - 2010
A composer and sound designer for theatre, film, television and dance. Best known for his theatre music for plays, he has written scores and designed sound for many critically acclaimed, award-winning Broadway productions including The Trip to Bountiful, Gore Vidals The Best Man, Clybourne Park, The Columnist, Seminar, Next Fall, Proof, A Bronx Tale, Rabbit Hole, Twelve Angry Men, Sight Unseen, Prelude to a Kiss, and A Few Good Men, among others.
His many off-Broadway and regional theatre scores are distinctive for their blend of original music and abstract sound design, and have been a part of productions at leading theatres in the U.S. and abroad. His recent work includes scores for the Shakespeare in the Park production of Measure for Measure, and the acclaimed production of the Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle at the Signature Theatre. Recordings of both scores are now available on iTunes and Amazon.
His theme and score for the ITV USA television series, The Interrogators, can be heard on the Biography Channel.
Gromada received a Tony nomination for his work on The Trip to Bountiful and has also received three Drama Desk Awards, and the Lucille Lortel, Obie , Henry Hewes, Drama-Logue, EDDY and Connecticut Critics Circle awards.
Bio as of April, 2014