Michael Rasbury is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. Since 2007, he has designed sound for the award-winning Transport Group in New York City. During the summer of 2007, the O’Neill National Musical Theater Conference presented Max Understood, a musical written with co-writer Nancy Carlin and based on Michael’s autistic son, Max. During this time he also served as composer and sound designer for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s production of Macbeth. Between 2005-2007, he created original compositions and sound designs for productions at Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. He has toured Europe and the United States with a production called An Alphabet, a newly completed John Cage work produced by the John Cage Trust. He wrote an orchestral score for Louisiana Tech University’s original production of The Leafmen and the Brave Good Bugs, presented in the spring of 2001. Michael has composed musical scores for some of the nation's largest outdoor dramas. Michael composed music and sound for the 1998 and 1996 Humana Festivals for New American Playwrights at Actors Theatre of Louisville and for The Public Theater in New York City. He has worked with some of America’s most innovative playwrights including Naomi Wallace, Jane Martin, John Patrick Shanley, Donald Marguilles and William Mastrosimone. As a performer, Michael has provided keyboards and vocals for local Louisiana bands and has performed at two New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festivals. In 2003, Michael was recognized as the Louisiana State Funded Theatre Artist by receiving the Artist Fellowship Grant in Theatre.

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