Photography by James Reiser
Jack Burmeister is a Sound Designer & Composer who works primarily in theatre and film, which enables him to explore the unique relationship between music and other art forms to create bespoke, immersive experiences. He has garnered recognition for his work with a Green Room Nomination for Outstanding Sound Design with 'The Roof is Caving In', and Best Score at the Geelong Independent Film Festival for his work on 'With Everything I Am'.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Interactive Composition) from UOM, and is a Company Artist with Frenzy Theatre Co. His notable design credits include 'ILARUN: The Cutting Comb' (Dir. Effie Nkrumah, 2024), 'The Whale' (Melbourne Shakespeare Company, 2024), 'La Belle Époque' (dir. Budi Miller, 2024), 'NIUSIA' (dir. Kathryn Yates, 2023 & 2025) which was the recipient of the Melbourne Fringe ‘Industry Ready’ award & the 'Cultural Diversity Award' in Adelaide Fringe 2025, and 'PIPER' (Frenzy Theatre Co, 2024).
Jack is the producer of The Theatre of Others Podcast, with over 20,000 listeners in over 90 countries and amongst the top 5% of podcasts worldwide. He was the lead designer on ‘The Earth Turns’, an audio play for COP27, and performed ‘Bright Light Burning’ (Adam Marple) at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai (COP28).
He is the sound designer and composer for ‘The Theatre of Others Audio New Play Festival’, developing and producing thirteen exciting new audio plays from Australia, Singapore, Egypt, and America, including ‘Firespeak’, ‘Barrelhouse’, ‘Sob Story’, and ‘Meet me at Liberation’ (2023), ‘Whale Song’, ‘Success in Contemporary Corporate Praxis’, ‘Beautiful’, and ‘Sugarbag’ (2022), ‘Thief’, ‘Galatea’, and ‘Tales from Arcadia’(2021). He is currently working on their 2024 season.
jack.burmeister@outlook.com