J. David Franzke
Composer, Sound Designer
Known as a composer and sound designer, music mixer and producer. His primary work is composing and designing for live performances and theatre. It also includes film, visual art installations as well as the production of albums.
Malthouse Theatre: Recent credits include The Birds, Because the Night, Cloudstreet, Melancholia, Away, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Night on Bald Mountain, Pompeii L.A.
Other Theatre: Recent credits include Happy Days, Heartbreak Choir, The Architect, The Odd Couple, The Beast, Elling, Australia Day, The Joy of Text, The Grenade and August: Osage County (Melbourne Theatre Company); Aviary (Phillip Adams BalletLab / Melbourne International Arts Festival) The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Sydney Theatre Company).
Film: The Earth Above: A deep time view of Australia’s epic history, Sonia and Cherry – Season 2, Kingdom of Doug, X, Dark Love Story, Acolytes and Rogue.
J. David Franzke has won Green Room awards for composition and sound design for Because the Night, Melancholia, Away, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Pompeii L.A.
Shows worked on
Because the Night
Composer & Sound Designer 2021
Cloudstreet (2019)
Sound Designer 2019
Melancholia
Sound Designer, Composer 2018
Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018)
Sound Designer 2018
Away (2017)
Composer, Sound Designer 2017
Picnic at Hanging Rock (2017)
Sound Designer 2017
Come Away with Me to the End of the World
Sound Designer 2016
Picnic At Hanging Rock (2016)
Sound Designer 2016
Nothing to Lose
2015
Night on Bald Mountain
Sound Designer 2014
The Dragon
Sound Designer 2013
Pompeii, L.A.
Sound Designer, Composer 2012
Intimacy (2010)
Sound Designer 2010
The Spook (2008 - Tour)
Composer, Sound Designer 2008
Holiday
Sound Designer 2008
Venus and Adonis
Sound Designer 2008
The China Incident
Sound Designer, Lighting Designer 2008
The Pitch (return season)
Sound Designer 2007
The Pitch
Sound Designer 2007
Black
Sound Designer 2007
Dimboola
2007
The Spook (2007)
Sound Designer, Composer 2007
Babes in the Wood (2006)
Sound Designer, Sound Operator/Engineer 2006
La Douleur
Sound Designer 2006
A View of Concrete
Sound Designer 2006
The Odyssey (2005)
Sound Designer 2005
The Proscenium
Sound Designer, Lighting Designer 2005
Drink Pepsi, Bitch!
Sound Designer 2005
Torrez
2004
Stolen (2004 - Tour)
2004
Inside 03: the Technology Project
Sound Designer 2003
Yanagai! Yanagai!
Sound Designer 2003
Falling Petals
Sound Designer 2003
Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America
Sound Designer 2003
The Fat Boy
Sound Designer 2003
God's Last Acre
Sound Designer 2003
Post Felicity
Sound Designer 2002
Svetlana in Slingbacks (2002)
Sound Designer 2002
Still Angela
Sound Operator/Engineer 2002
This Way Up
Sound Designer 2001
Ancient Enmity
Composer, Sound Designer 2001
Knowledge and Melancholy
Sound Designer, Composer 2001
Seven Days of Silence
Sound Designer, Composer 2001
Svetlana in Slingbacks (2001)
Sound Designer, Composer 2001
Bang! A Critical Fiction
Sound Designer 2001
Public Dancing
Sound Designer 2001
Miss Tanaka
Sound Operator/Engineer 2001
Crazy Brave
Sound Designer 2000
Violet Inc
Composer 2000
Baby X
Composer 2000
Like a Metaphor
Composer 2000
So Wet
Composer 2000
Elegy
Composer 2000
Cloudstreet (1999)
Sound Operator/Engineer 1999
The Dogs Play and A Few Roos Loose in the Top Paddock
Sound Operator/Engineer 1999
The Sick Room
Sound Designer 1999
Stolen (1998)
1998
Tear From a Glass Eye
Sound Operator/Engineer 1998
Redemption
1997
Burning Time
1996
Royboys
1987
Away (1986)
1986
Fool for Love
1984
The Removalists
1984
Scapin
1984
The Kid
1984
Mary
1982
True West
1981
Unspeakable Acts
1980
The Death of Minnie
1980
Outside Edge
1980
Quadraphrenia
1980
The Ripper Show
1979
Alison Mary Fagan
1979
Jeremy Taylor
1979
Dirty Linen
1979
Everest Hotel
1978
A Bit of Rough
1978
Perfect Strangers
1978
Yamashita (1977)
1977
Current as of April 2025.