Dan cut his teeth as musician before developing a passion for theatre through sound design and composition.

A domino of decisions has led him here. He produced classical music events in iconic Manchester pubs (Night & Day Cafe), which he took him to Edinburgh Fringe where he did his first sound design gig (The Marriage of Kim K) for leo&hyde, which led to a composition and writing collaboration on a new musical (Galileo: an a cappella musical).

Alongside this, he worked as a klezmer musician, which led him to becoming a klezmer tutor and honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester, which led him to co-founding a CIC for intercultural music, which led him to co-producing and writing a play (Gideon: a play with music).

Dan Mawson

HOUSE KEEPER

To House Header he brings: his musical, compositional, and music production craft; a belief in the power of music to tell stories that words alone cannot; a holistic approach that values attention to detail, nuance, and cultural sensitivity; and much needed facial hair

Dan has a Masters in Musicology from the University of Manchester, a full-UK drivers license, and an enhanced DBS, and is a member of the ISM

theatre Sound Design & Composition

He has worked as a sound designer [SD] /composer [C] for musical theatre / plays in the following theatres (selection):

Liverpool Everyman [SDC], Liverpool Epstein [SDC], Birmingham Old Rep [SD], The Turbine [SD], The Lowry Studio [SD], The Other Palace [SD], Theatre by the Lake [SD], The Kings Head Theatre [SD], Waterside Arts Centre [SD], Alnwick Playhouse [SD], New Wimbledon (Studio) [SD].

“Hats off to sound designer Daniel Mawson for letting me hear every word”

— Everything Theatre

“The sound design was exemplary”

— British Theatre Guide

immersive / site specific

He has worked as a sound designer in immersive / site specific for the following locations (selection)

Muncaster Castle, Old Royal Naval College, Foundation Coffeeshop, Takk.

Installations / AV Solutions

He has worked in the heritage/corporate sector on creative solutions, installations or audiovisual projections for the following organisations (selection):

National Trust, Light Up Lancaster, Lancaster Judges’ Lodgings, The Lowry, Rochdale Town Hall, OPUS Arts Events, St Helen’s Borough Council, Lancashire Encounter Festival.

“You’ve managed to capture the essence of what we do … it’s terrific

— Steve Cowton, Head of Theatres at The Lowry (One Lowry, Many Stories)

“an achingly beautiful piece”

— Lela Harris, artist (They Were People First)

Dan has also worked as a writer. If he had a penny for every show he’d been involved in writing that follows a life of an eponymous, hubristic, tragic ‘genius’ figure with a name beginning with ‘G’ he would only have two pennies (but it’s a weird statistical anomaly, right?). Gideon is a play with music about the life of lesser-known Czech-Jewish composer Gideon Klein. Galileo is an a cappella musical about the famous scientist Galileo Galilei, being co-written by Dan and Leo Mercer, two songs from which have reached the final of the Stiles and Drewe Song Prize, one of which won the Voice, Vision and Potential Award.