The Q Brothers'
Funk It Up About Nothin'
January 21
February 13, 2011
Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare
a "hip-hoptation" of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
created and directed by GQ and JQ
James Savage
Sound Design
James Savage is head of the sound department at CST, where his more than thirty-five design credits include: Pericles, Seussical, Cyrano de Bergerac, Othello: The Remix (Jeff Award; CST, London, Germany, Edinburgh, South Korea, Sydney, Poland), Murder for Two (Jeff Award nomination), Funk It Up About Nothin’ (CST, Edinburgh, Australian tour, London), Disney’s Aladdin, Twelfth Night, Willy Wonka, Othello, Passion, How Can You Run with a Shell on Your Back?, Hamlet, A Flea in Her Ear, The Princess and the Pea, Peter Pan, Much Ado About Nothing, A Little Night Music, Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks The Taming of the Shrew, multiple Short Shakespeare! productions, and all ten CPS Shakespeare! productions. Mr. Savage’s special effects design credits include: Shrek the Musical, Richard III, Macbeth and Cymbeline. Mr. Savage has served as the lead mix engineer with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Utah Shakespeare Festival. Regional design credits include sound design for Sondheim’s Saturday Night and assistant sound design for The Hot Mikado (University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music).