Selected work
Sound and music for the stage. New environments for listening. Tools and spaces for learning.
Theatre
Buried Child
Composer & Sound Designer · Strongbox Theater · 2026
Sam Shepard’s American Gothic. October 30–November 15 in East Rockaway, New York.
Production details & tickets ↗
Kansas City Repertory Theatre
The Color Purple — Sound Designer · 2025
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill — Sound Designer · 2024
Cyrano de Bergerac — Composer & Sound Designer · 2023
New York & opera
X: Or, Betty Shabazz vs. the Nation — Associate Sound Designer · The Acting Company · 2017–2018
Lesson Plan — Sound Designer · On Site Opera · 2021
This Dream Has Teeth — Composer & Sound Designer · The Tank, NYC · 2025
White Snake Projects — Resident Sound Designer · 2020–2024; collaborations include Alice in the Pandemic, Death by Life, A Survivor’s Odyssey, and Cosmic Cowboy.
Teaching & Creative Technology
Sound Mandala
Co-creator, Composer & Co-producer · Kansas City · 2026
A three-month, 100-channel listening installation. Original spatial compositions, immersive programs, and technical systems make sound a place to inhabit.
How to Shit in Public
Installation collaboration with Nina Fry · The Bechdel Project, Greenpoint, Brooklyn · 2026
An audiovisual experience exploring childbirth in New York through interviews, recorded voices, opera, light, and projection.
Lutz Lab & Creative Technologies
University of Evansville · Program leadership, curriculum & facilities
Jon designed and built the Lutz Lab Immersive Audio Environment, a 22-channel system for spatial composition and research within the existing Lutz Lab. His teaching work includes curriculum redevelopment, new AR/VR coursework, a professional podcast lab, and the Creative Tech Showcase—spaces for students to turn ambitious ideas into practice.
Tutti Remote
Co-founder & Inventor · Developed with White Snake Projects
A system for synchronizing geographically separated performers and audio sources. Its patented synchronization method grew from the needs of live musical collaboration.