Joe Johnson (Sound Designer/Composer for The Tempest) TSC: Cyrano de Bergerac, Macbeth.  Joe is a singer-songwriter, composer, sound designer, and educator. Since the pandemic, Joe has shifted his focus from live performance to composition and education but is looking forward to returning to the performance world. He recently attended Folk Alliance International with Music Exports Memphis.  He performs regularly in and around Memphis, and writes and records with several other Memphis musicians.  Joe is looking forward to releasing new music in the coming year.  He has received numerous awards for composition and sound design, including the Ostrander award for theatrical sound design for Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice.  He has composed music for films, plays, and commercial presentations.  He composed music featured in New York and Memphis Fashion Weeks.  He taught music in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas public schools, integrating language arts and mathematics into the music classroom, and he is currently teaching in Memphis. He received his Master’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and did more post-Graduate work at the University of Georgia. He approaches his work as a working musician with the mind of an educator and continues to seek out opportunities to enrich the lives of other musicians as he shares in numerous collaborative projects.