Theatre
Emily Rose Simons is an Offie nominated sound designer specializing in comedy, voice overs and music. She seamlessly weaves her musical theater and classical composition background into her practice to create intelligent sound design with strong dramaturgy, subtlety and emotional drive. Recent credits include Pickle (Soho Theatre, The Park Theatre), February Face (Kings Head Theatre, Old Red Lion Theatre) and The Pursuit of Joy (Jermyn Street Theatre).
Meet Alex, an out-of-work actor who finds himself working beneath Barbra Streisand’s Malibu home in her legendary basement shopping mall. A big hit in New York and London, Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs.
"Bringing another dimension is Emily Rose Simons' composition and sound design, which occassionally drops in strains from classic Streisand tunes to help colour the narrative. It's a subtle trick that lays further polish on to Jameson's neatly structured production."
- Paul Vale, The Stage
"excellent sound design and piano playing of composer Emily Rose Simons who underscores Madge's performance with snatches of some of Streisand's best-known songs and it gives the piece an extra layer."
- Alan Fitter, LondonTheatre1
Sweden. 1888. Midsummer’s Eve.
It’s hot, the sun isn’t going to set, and the flowers are in full bloom. While The Count is away, the servants dance through the night. Amidst the festivities is Miss Julie… wilder than the rest.
As she descends into the servants’ quarters, a battle for power and dominance between her, and her father’s valet, will eventually become a fight for survival.
Grippingly funny and beguilingly dangerous, Miss Julie examines sex, power, gender and class in the midst of the midsummer heat.
The sound design includes muffled folk music, suggesting this is being played elsewhere on the estate, as well as muffled shouting a loud conversation from the staff. Both elements effectively highlight that a party is taking place." - Mark Senior Theatre and Tonic
Teresa – a former Catholic turned atheist – digs for the truth of her estranged father's last days by playing a game of cat and mouse with the priest who took her father's final confession. Father Daniel's unconventional approach to church ideology restores Teresa's strength just as her irreverence for church doctrine shakes his foundation. An improbable, seductive, and altogether forbidden romance blossoms as the two heal each other's wounds and challenge each other's conceptions of faith, love, and forgiveness.
Dating in your twenties is hard enough, then the panic attacks start.
February Face is a dark romantic comedy about Ed falling in love with Lily. A classic 21st century romance. One has anxiety and the other, depression. But that doesn't matter where their attraction is concerned.
Or does it?
Intrusive thoughts say otherwise...
Still living at home in North-West London, she has her Jewish life, dominated by overbearing parents, traditions, and expectations. Then there’s her day-to-day life – the job, the pub, the foreskins.
Written and performed by award-winning Deli Segal (Channel 4Screenwriting 2023), Pickle is a darkly comic uproarious simcha of a one-woman show about being Jewish and secular in the UK today. Expect smoked salmon, guilt and a large dose of self-deprecation.
Following a sold-out tour at Park Theatre, Manchester Jewish Museum and Radlett Centre, Pickle comes to Soho Upstairs for a limited run this July.
Ardel, Joan and Iona – three strangers on the hunt for something different – meet at arrivals before the 2349 mile journey to…nope, can’t say it…well, you know…ugh fine…TO FIND THEMSELVES.
Join Tracy, a day-dreaming, outspoken, list-making, extroverted-introvert in the midst of cooking Christmas Dinner for her family – her extremely large family.
"Sound design (Emily Rose Simons) was used for excellent comedic effect and added to the fun." Theatre and Tonic
"Alex Forey and Emily Rose Simons, behind the lighting and sound respectively, seem at first to have little to do but prove to be essential to the tonal and comedic shifts." Sam Waite, All That Dazzles
Still living at home in North-West London, she has her Jewish life, dominated by overbearing parents, traditions, and expectations. Then there’s her day-to-day life – the job, the pub, the foreskins.
Written and performed by award-winning Deli Segal (Channel 4Screenwriting 2023), Pickle is a darkly comic uproarious simcha of a one-woman show about being Jewish and secular in the UK today. Expect smoked salmon, guilt and a large dose of self-deprecation.
Following a sold-out tour at Park Theatre, Manchester Jewish Museum and Radlett Centre, Pickle comes to Soho Upstairs for a limited run this July.