Sam Crawford

Sam Crawford’s (sound engineer) compositions and sound designs have included works for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Venice Biennale, 2010), A.I.M by Kyle Abraham (Untitled Love, 2022), Camille A. Brown and Dancers (BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, 2016), and David Dorfman Dance ((A) Way Out of My Body, 2022). Recent film works include 32 Sounds, directed by Sam Green, for which Crawford acted as the headphone experience designer; the film was shortlisted for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category in 2024. La Medea, a live film collaboration with director Yara Travieso for which Crawford composed the music and wrote the libretto, premiered at P.S.122’s Coil Festival in 2017. Since 2020, Crawford has taught sound design at the University of Maryland’s School of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. He became Co-Director of UMD’s Maya Brin Institute for New Performance in 2023.