Guy Sherman A.k.a. Aural Fixation

Guy Sherman, also known as Aural Fixation, is a Drama Desk and Obie Award winning sound designer and composer for both Broadway and Off-Broadway. His Off-Broadway credits include: SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU/THE ACTOR’S NIGHTMARE (1981), THE FOREIGNER (1984), THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES (1986), TEN BY TENNESSEE (1986), STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1987), THE NIGHT HANK WILLIAMS DIED (1989), SIX DEGRESS OF SEPARATION (1990), RED SCARE ON SUNSET (1991, THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG (1992), A CHEEVER EVENING (1994), SYLVIA (1995), BED AND SOFA (1996), THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN (1998), TEXTS FOR NOTHING (2000), ENGAGED (2004). His Broadway credits include: Lend Me a Tenor, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, The Heiress, and The Sisters Rosensweig. He received a Drama Desk Award for RED SCARE ON SUNSET and an Obie Award for ENGAGED.

Sherman was born in Manhattan and grew up in Florham Park, New Jersey. While in high school, he learned music theory and broadcasting, played bassoon in the band, acted in school and community plays and began assembling live and recorded sound effects for plays which he directed. He studied acting through NYU at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and at the Actors and Directors Lab. Performing Off-Off-Broadway, he survived by ushering at Cinema 1 & 2 where Al Pacino had worked years earlier. Sherman created sounds and music for his friends’ shows and started his sound design/original music career fully by 1981.

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