Tom Mardikes

Tom Mardikes
Professor of Theatre Sound, Conservatory
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Professor Mardikes has worked on over 250 professional productions nationwide as Sound Designer for Kansas City Repertory Theatre, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the Dallas Theatre Center, Syracuse Stage, Coconut Grove, the Roundabout, the Alley Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Since 2004 he has created over six hours of audio tours for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Mardikes served as chair of UMKC Theatre from 2001-2017. He co-founded Kansas City Actors Theatre in 2004, an artist-led, artist-driven professional theatre company performing in Kansas City’s Union Station. In 2011, he led a group of eight member-schools to create the National Design Portfolio Review, where graduating M.F.A. designers are introduced to the New York theatre profession. His research project is the Sound Mandala, where he works with colleagues and graduate students programming the amazing motion of sounds through loudspeakers systems that vary in size from 36 up to 192 speaker channels.