Bio

Leon Rothenberg is a Tony Award-winning Sound Designer for theater, games, film, dance, virtual reality, immersive environments and the circus.

On Broadway, Leon won the Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play for The Nance. His other Broadway designs include Hillary and Clinton, The Boys in the Band, A Doll’s House, Part 2, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, which earned him a Tony nomination. He has designed for theaters across the country, including The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Playwrights Horizons, The Huntington, A.C.T. and Williamstown Theatre Festival. For Cirque du Soleil he designed Kooza, currently touring the world, and Wintuk in New York City.

Since 2022 Leon has been Audio Director and Music Supervisor at Spry Fox. He has also designed sound for virtual reality games and experiences seen at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals.

Leon currently teaches at UCLA. He has taught at California Institute of the Arts, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Bennington College, and mentors student productions in Pasadena and at USC. He holds an M.F.A. in Theater from California Institute of the Arts, a B.M. in Music Composition from Oberlin Conservatory, and a B.A. in Computer Science from Oberlin College.