Sam Vincent
Sound Design & Engineering
Recent Notable Productions
Sound Designer
Billie The Kid, Vaudeville November 2023
Seventeen-year-old Billie Belle is a girl used to having the odds stacked against her. Born in a Bible Belt town to a delinquent mother, Billie spent her childhood saving discount-store coupons and working night shifts to keep the lights on in her grandma’s tiny trailer. Through it all, Billie has had one person by her side: her childhood sweetheart, Brody Benson. Brody’s a redneck with a heart of gold and they have spent years planning their future together, all pinned on Billie’s hopes for a full-ride scholarship to Charleston City College. But their plans are thrown into chaos when Billie discovers Brody has been trading dirty DMs with David Francis – the school queer punk rocker.
Torn between the pain of this betrayal and her love for her boyfriend, Billie reaches out to David and his gang of misfits. While Billie has put all her energy into thriving within the system, they’ve gone the other way, determined to be wild and joyful outsiders with no fear of offending! Inspired by and united with her new friends, Billie finds herself at the heart of a new kind of love story, one where her happily ever after is with herself in her fight for justice and equality; and the chance to ride out into the sunset on her terms.
This new British musical with
music and lyrics by Gez Mercer, book by Conway McDermott and Gez Mercer, directed by Kerry Kyriacos Michael, is being semi-staged in front of a live audience for the first time
Associate Sound Designer
Tammy Faye, Almeida Theatre 2022
Working With Bobby Aitken.
From a studio in South Carolina, Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker revolutionised religion.
Preaching to millions 24 hours a day, Tammy just wants to put the fun back into faith.
But a new wave of ministers wants you not to just feel God in your heart, but in your homes, in your schools and in the law too.
Tammy Faye is a "divinely delirious glitz-bomb of a musical" (Financial Times) from legendary songwriter Elton John, Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears and award-winning writer James Graham (Ink, BBC’s Sherwood), featuring Olivier Award-winner Katie Brayben (Beautiful) as Tammy Faye and Tony Award-nominee Andrew Rannells (The Book of Mormon, Girls) as Jim.
Directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold (Spring Awakening), this "spectacularly entertaining" (New York Times) true story, is a testament of faith, resilience and the temptations of success.
God bless Tammy Faye!
Sound Designer
Just So, Watermill Theatre 2021
At the ‘Time of the Very Beginnings’ the land is bustling with beasts, the sky is filled with birds and the ocean is teeming with fish. But there is one small problem: all the animals look the same!
The wise ‘Eldest Magician’ sends them out into the world to find their individuality. Everything is just so until Pau Amma the Crab starts playing with the ocean, causing terrible floods that put the other animals in danger. The brave Elephant's Child embarks on a journey to challenge and overcome Pau Amma, but can she do it alone?
This wondrous family musical blends five of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories to tell a tale of courage, friendship and the power of an individual to make a difference.
A spirited semi-staged concert that will take you back to nature this summer, join us for a song-filled journey through the jungle in the relaxed atmosphere of The Watermill gardens.
Sound Designer
Some Like It Hip Hop, UK Tour and West End Run 2019
Some Like It Hip Hop is a story of love, mistaken identity and revolution, in a city where books are banned, and where women are kept subservient to men.
The story revolves around two central female characters, Jo-Jo and Kerri. When they are discovered breaking the rules of the city, they are thrown out.
They decide they have only one option – to return to the city dressed as men. It doesn’t take long for the two women to prove their worth, and it also doesn’t take long for Jo-Jo to fall in love with Simeon, the only educated man in the city.
If only she wasn’t wearing a moustache… It takes all their efforts to maintain their disguise, find love, and change the world.
Influenced by themes from the classic movie Some Like It Hot, the hit US TV series Mad Men, and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a complicated comical tale of love, mistaken identity, gender stereo-types and revolution are played out in ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company’s trademark style of Hip Hop, comedy and physical theatre.
Associate Sound Designer
Working With Paul Arditti.
A Very Expensive Poison, The Old Vic Theatre 2019, London, UK
Based on the Guardian/Faber book by Luke Harding
WORLD PREMIERE
A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life.
At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering through the shadowy world of international espionage from Moscow to Mayfair.
John Crowley (Brooklyn, The Goldfinch) directs Lucy Prebble’s (The Effect, ENRON) reimagining of Luke Harding’s jaw-dropping exposé of the events behind the notorious death of ex-FSB Officer Alexander Litvinenko.
Associate Sound Designer
Working on behalf of Ben Harrison
The Wedding Singer, Daegu International Musicals Festival South Korea 2019
It's the year 1985. Hair is ginormous, greed is at an all-time high, and wannabe rockstar Robbie Hart is the most coveted wedding singer in New Jersey.
When Hart's fiancée says 'I don't' at the altar, he slips into a vengeful depression determined to make every wedding just as awful as his own.
But can the kindhearted Julia and her best girlfriend Holly convince Robbie to crawl out of the dumpster and get back into the spotlight? Or will he see her walk the aisle with the Wall Street wolf Glenn?
The Wedding Singer is a musical with music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics by Chad Beguelin, and a book by Beguelin and Tim Herlihy. It is based on the 1998 film of the same name.
Associate Sound Designer
Working on behalf of Tom Marshall
Flashdance, South Korea Tour 2019
Dance like you’ve never danced before! Flashdance - the Musical tells the inspiring and unforgettable story of 18 year old Alex, a welder by day and dancer by night, who dreams of going to the prestigious Shipley Dance Academy and becoming a professional dancer, when a romance complicates her ambitions, she harnesses it to drive her dream.
Based on the Paramount Pictures film (screenplay by Tom Hedley and Joe Eszterhas, story by Tom Hedley) Flashdance is an inspiring musical about the power of holding onto your dreams and love against all the odds.