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Sarah Gooda

Stage manager, Lighting, Sound & Production Designer,

1st AD, Stage & Film crew

I have 20 years' experience in stage management, lighting, sound and production design, general lighting, sound and AV tech roles, and film roles including 1st AD, sound recordist, script supervisor, gaffer, sound & video editing, production design, production management and production assistant roles. ​I have worked in theatre, dance, live music and corporate events as well as holding in-house production roles in several venues. My experience includes touring and work on a variety of festivals in Australia, the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand.

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sarahgooda@zohomail.com.au

0403 219774

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Christmas in the Enchanted Castle

Sound design

Lucrezias throne room introArtist Name
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Theatre, Dance and Live music​​

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  • Bayou Bart - Sound design.  Kalina Lauer, Theatreworks, Melbourne

  • The Gathering of the Goddesses - Victoria. - Sound technician.  Gathering of the Goddesses Festival, Macedon, VIC

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  • Sand, Sea, Surf & Murder - Lighting, Sound, Costume & Set design.  Spangled Aura productions / Adelaide Fringe, Warehouse Theatre, Adelaide

  • The Gathering of the Goddesses - Tasmania. - Sound technician.  Gathering of the Goddesses Festival, Forth, TAS

  • The Wildside - Stage crew Hannah Indigo / Adelaide Fringe, Empire Cabaret Theatre, Adelaide

  • The Good Immigrant - Sound design CJ Productions / Adelaide Fringe, Star Theatre Adelaide

  • That Spying Game - Lighting, Sound, Costume & Set design Spangled Aura productions / Adelaide Fringe, Warehouse Theatre, Adelaide

  • Spamalot - Set design 24hr show, Parks Theatre, Adelaide

  • Unicornia - Costume & Prop design Spangled Aura productions, Adelaide / Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

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  • Cock - Lighting design & op Boyslikeme productions,  Holden Street  Theatre, Adelaide

  • Reasonable Doubt - Lighting & Sound design & op. STARC productions, Holden Street Theatre, Adelaide

  • The Addams Family - Set construction (chair) Alternative Theatre Company, Arts Theatre, Adelaide

  • How Long is a piece of string? - Lighting design. Independent / Melbourne Fringe, Theatreworks Explosives Factory, St Kilda

  • The complete works of William Shakespeare (abridged) - Lighting design Stirling Players, Stirling community theatre, Adelaide

  • UKRAINEstock - Stage manager Independent, The BRIT, Adelaide

  • Unperturbed - Stage manager Nevus Productiuons / Adelaide Fringe  Holden Street Theatre, Adelaide

  • Escaping the burning sun Lighting op. Quasar Arts, Little Theatre, Adelaide

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  • A Passage to India - Lighting design. Genesian Theatre, Genesian Theatre, Sydney

  • George's Marvellous Medicine - Sound design. Encore Theatre, Melbourne

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  • Adelaide Fringe Preview Series - Lighting & sound tech AdelMagic Productions Various locations, Adelaide

  • The Hipster - Lighting designer & Sound engineer. Genesian Theatre, Genesian Theatre, Sydney

  • Numinous Asylum - Lighting design. Labyrinth Productions, Holden Street Theatre, Adelaide

  • Woodford Folk Festival - Stage manager. Woodford Folk Festival, Woodford, Queensland

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  • Zombie - Makeup. Drag King..dom, Ancient Worlds, Adelaide

  • The Drunkards- Lighting & Sound design & op Golden Fleece Productions / Melbourne Fringe., Alex Theatre, Melbourne

  • The art of lies and obfuscation - Lighting design. SphereSonus, MC Showroom, Melbourne

  • Woodford Folk Festival - Backline technician. Woodford Folk Festival, Woodford, Queensland

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  • The woman in black - Lighting design Brisbane Arts Theatre, Brisbane Arts Theatre

  • Private Fears in Public Toilets Production design Spangled Aura Productions., Broken Hill

  • Minefields and Miniskirts - Sound and AV design Brisbane Arts Theatre, Brisbane Arts Theatre

  • Of Mice and Men - Lighting designer. Brisbane Arts Theatre, Brisbane Arts Theatre

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  • Powercut Production design Spangled Aura Productions., Gold Coast Arts Centre

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  • In a nutshell - Production design Spangled Aura Productions, Gold Coast Arts Theatre

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  • The Inner Monologues - Lighting, Sound & Production designer. Spangled Aura Productions, Bleeding heart gallery, Brisbane

  • Just Say I Do - Lighting & Sound designer. Spangled Aura Productions, Bleeding heart gallery, Brisbane

  • 20,000 Leagues under the Sea - Lighting, Sound & Production designer. Spangled Aura Productions, RSP Amphitheatre, Brisbane

  • The Magic Garden - Costume & Make-up designer. Spangled Aura Productions, Roma Street Parkland, Brisbane

  • Not how Chaucer wrote it - Lighting, Sound, Production & Costume designer. Spangled Aura Productions, Rabbit + Cocoon, Gold Coast

  • Murder in the dark - Lighting designer. InsideOutside Theatre  Brisbane​

Forest Cottage intro.WAVArtist Name
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Castle Garden introArtist Name
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Wedding walkdownArtist Name
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Wizard's danceArtist Name
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20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Sound design

Atlantis.WAVArtist Name
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Coal mineArtist Name
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Ice cave.WAVArtist Name
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Welcome to the Room

Sound design

(with music by Fleetwood Mac)

outroArtist Name
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The Fifth Leg

Composer

creditsArtist Name
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  • Christmas in the Enchanted Castle - Lighting, Sound & Production designer. Spangled Aura Productions, MetroArts, Brisbane

  • The Inner Monologues - Lighting, Sound & Production designer. Spangled Aura Productions, MetroArts, Brisbane

  • Just Say I Do - Lighting & Sound designer. Spangled Aura Productions, MetroArts, Brisbane

  • The Haunted Forest - Costume & Prop designer. Spangled Aura Productions, Roma Street Parkland, Brisbane

  • Welcome to the room - Costume designer. Spangled Aura Productions, Gold Coast Arts Centre

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  • Inside Hells Gates - Costume designer. Spangled Aura Productions, Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane Cape Byron Productions, MetroArts, Brisbane / Byron Bay

  • Yahweh - Lighting designer + op. Independent / Anywhere Theatre Festival, Gold Coast Arts Centre

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  • Sara-Rose Millar & Sasha Cuha - Stylist Spangled Aura Productions, Gold Coast

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  • Porgy and Bess - Camera & editing. Wales  Millennium Centre, WMC, Cardiff

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  • The Nutcracker - Stage manager. Haywards heath school of dance, Haywards Heath

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest - Stage manager. Hubbub theatre, West Sussex College, Haywards Heath

  • Trinity - Lighting designer. Higher State Circus, Brighton Town Hall

  • Folding hope / Hollow bones - Followspot op. St Hilda's School, St Hildas, Gold Coast

  • There was Nothing - Lighting designer + op. First Contact Dance, Haywards Heath

  • Light Trails - Lighting & AV designer First Contact Dan, Haywards Heath

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  • The Turner Plays - Lighting & Sound Designer. Red on Black Productions Etcetera Theatre, Camden, London

  • The Six wives of Timothy Leary - Lighting designer. Weaver Hughes Ensemble / Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh

  • The Six wives of Timothy Leary - Lighting designer. Weaver Hughes Ensemble,  Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London

  • The Beheading - Lighting designer. Crescent Theatre Workshop, Etcetera Theatre, Camden, London

  • Mad Forest - Lighting designer + op Hubbub, The Hub, Haywards Heath

  • The Magic of Eurovision - Lighting designer + op James Dixon Productions, UK tour

  • Tahiti Spectacular - Lighting designer + op Light FX , TelstraClear Arena, Auckland

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  • Mazda Product Launch - Prop maker & theming crew Sydney Prop , Shangri La Hotel, Sydney

  • Jetlag - Lighting designer + op Coming of age productions, Gasworks Theatre, Melbourne

  • Melbourne Fringe - Technical stage manager Melbourne Fringe, Various venues, North Melbourne

  • Alice Desert Festival - Stage manager & prop maker Alice Desert Festival, Alice Springs

  • Emerge - Stage manager Katherine Town Council, Katherine Town Council. 

  • Katherine Flying Fox Festival - Production assistant Katherine Town Council, Katherine

  • Divas of rock - Camera  Multi Image Productions, Village Theatre, Gold Coast

  • Mabou Mines Dollhouse - ASM Mabou Mines / Brisbane Festval, Gardens Theatre, Brisbane

  • National Dance Championships - Assistant lighting designer Multi Image Productions, Jupiter's Casino, Gold Coast

  • Young Conservatorium Day - Stage manager JLX Productions, The Conservatorium, Brisbane

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  • Snow White - DSM  UK Productions, Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl

  • The Women of Lockerbie - ASM & carpenter Orange Tree Theatre, Orange Tree Theatre, London

  • EuroSedos Song Contest - Sound engineer & AV op SEDOS, Bridewell Theatre, London

  • Scenes from a separation - Sound designer Orange Tree Theatre, Orange Tree Theatre, London

  • The Tempest - Sound designer Orange Tree Theatre, Orange Tree Theatre, London

  • The Man Who - ASM Orange Tree Theatre, Orange Tree Theatre, London

  • Previous Convictions - ASM Orange Tree Theatre, Orange Tree Theatre, London

  • The Trial of Sir Henry Irving - Props ACS Random Productions, London

  • The Jungle Book - ASM & AV op Hammond Productions, Pavilion Theatre, Worthing

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  • Cinderella - DSM Hammond Productions, Fernham Hall, Fareham

  • The Nutcracker- Relight technician Ballet Ireland, UK & Ireland tour

  • Dublin Fringe - Technical stage manager. Dublin Fringe, Dublin (Ireland)

  • Edinburgh Fringe Festival - Technician Sweet Productions Edinburgh

  • 6 - Stage manager Box Clever Theatre, St Edmunds School, Dover

  • Bugsy Malone - DSM MRD productions, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury

  • Sounds New Festival - Stage manager Sounds new festival, Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury

  • Peter Pan - ASM Kevin Wood Productions,  Marlowe  Theatre, Canterbury

  • Deal Festival of Music and the Arts - Stage Manager. DFMA, Deal

Spangled Aura 2023 season

AOC - sound mix

AV01 acknowledgement of countryArtist Name
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Capacity
Sound design - radio

Radio audio editedArtist Name
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sisters of the moonArtist Name
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Sisters of the Moon (Fleetwood Mac cover)
Arrangement, Recording & Mixing

Current Projects

Film, TV and Recorded Music ​​

  • Donnie Doesn't know - production designer SCUTI Productions, Adelaide

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  • Stranded and Alone - various crew roles Alpha 21 Productions, Adelaide

  • Bonded for Life - Sound recordist Independent,  Adelaide

  • Lucky's Chance - Sound recordist / boom op. Kurralta Films, Adelaide

  • Freezing point - Art dept assistant Anomaly, SunJive Studios, Adelaide

  • The Choice - Script supervisor / Post production sound Independent,  Adelaide

  • Echoes of Avalon - Producer, recording mixing & mastering. Sara-Rose Millar, Adelaide

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  • Through the Ages - Producer, recording mixing & mastering. Court of Camelot, Adelaide

  • Darkside - Productions Designer  Magic Sphere Productions,  Sydney

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  • Think about it - 1st AD, camera & editor. Spangled Aura Productions, Tamborine Mountain

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  • Teal Soldiers - Production designer Pegasus Productions, Gold Coast

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  • Caught on Camera - Editor. Spangled Aura Productions, Gold Coast

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  • Parallel - Gaffer  Independent,  Gold Coast

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  • Boxed in - Sound recordist & boom op. Independent, Gold Coast

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  • Bufo - Production designer VCA, Sunshine Coast

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  • Continental Drift - 1st AD & Editor Spangled Aura Productions, Gold Coast / Cardiff

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  • Knowledge Box - Sound recordist / boom op Mint Studios  Rotorua

  • Terror on Volcanic Island - 1st AD & Editor Spangled Aura Productions, Haywards Heath / Rangitoto Island

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  • Grey Days - Boom op Eidolon Creative,  Melbourne

  • The Nick - Script Supervisor Flametree Productions / Channel 31, Melbourne

  • Unknown Combo - Sound recordist / boom op Pistolero Films,  Melbourne

  • Still Waters - Art department (preproduction) Wahoo Films, Gold Coast

  • The Girl in the Red Dress - 1st AD (preproduction) Mivision Films,  Adelaide

  • Inspirations Furniture TVC - gaffer. Multi Image Productions, Gold Coast

  • Word Perfect - 1st AD & editor  Spangled Aura Productions,  London

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  • Coming out - 1st AD. Spangled Aura Productions, London

  • The Lie that Truth said - 1st AD  SwissTim Films,  London

  • Spinning on decks - 1st AD  Spangled Aura Productions, London

  • Love is like... - Production co-ordinator  The Constant Films,  London

  • Call me Harry - Production assistant  Francis Lauren Rivers Productions, London

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Plus community and student theatre shows and films from 1997-2004

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In house positions:

2018-2019: Civic Centre, Broken Hill - Cover Technician

2009-2010: Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff - Events Technician

2008-2009: The Hub, Haywards Heath - Technician

2005: Orange Tree Theatre, London: Technician

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Sound design for film

(student project 2022)

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Sound design for video game

(student project 2022)

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