The Ithaca College Audio Engineering Society Student Chapter is excited to host Nevin Steinberg and Megumi Katayama this semester!

NEVIN STEINBERGS'’s recent projects include Hamilton on Broadway, in London, Los Angeles, San Francisco and on US Tour; Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway, in London and on US Tour, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical in the West End, Hamburg, Utrecht and on Broadway, Hadestown (Tony Award) on Broadway, Freestyle Love Supreme on Broadway, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star on Broadway and Rodgers+ Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony nomination). He designed over thirty Broadway productions with Acme Sound Partners and received five additional Tony nominations for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Fences, Hair, In The Heights. Steinberg serves as the Audio Consultant for Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. He holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in English and American Literature and Language, and in 2011 completed a Certificate Program in Arts Management at NYU's School for Continuing Professional Studies. Nevin is Trustee of the Town Hall Foundation, Inc., the non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and support of The Town Hall, a cultural and education center as well as a national historic landmark in the center of Times Square in New York City.

MEGUMI KATAYAMA is a Sound Designer, Sound Artist, Audio Engineer, and Composer based in NYC. Her recent theatrical sound design credits include Pass Over (Studio Theater), Pride and Prejudice (Long Wharf Theater), For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (The Public Theater), El Huracán (Yale Rep/The Sol Project, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Nomination), soft (Williamstown Theater Festival Fellowship). In addition to Theater, she has worked on Art Installations (her installation piece Spine Line Awake: Manuel Neri Redux was selected for the featured emerging artist exhibit at Prague Quadrennial 2019), Short Films, Video Projects, Audio Plays, Theme Park, Corporate Events, and TV productions. Originally from Japan, Megumi holds a BFA from the University of Central Oklahoma and an MFA from Yale School of Drama.