Palmer Hefferan

Palmer Hefferan is a Tony Award® nominated sound designer and composer for theater, opera, and podcasts. She has designed over 75 productions on stages in New York and across the country. In 2022, she was an honorary chair of the American Theatre Wing Gala, which celebrated women theatre practitioners. She received a 2019 Obie Award® for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design from the American Theatre Wing. Highlights from the last decade include six collaborations with director, Rosa Joshi (Henry IV: Part 1, Henry V, As You Like It, Bring Down the House: Part 1 & 2, King John). BROADWAY credits include: Alex Edelman: Just For Us (Hudson Theatre), The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center); Grand Horizons (Second Stage); The Lifespan of a Fact (Studio 54). Select OFF-BROADWAY credits: what the end will be, Something Clean, Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Theatre Company); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Audible Theater); Merry Wives, shadow/land, Shipwreck, Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater); Fefu and Her Friends (Drama Desk nomination, TFANA); Flex, Becky Nurse Salem, Marys Seacole (Lincoln Center); Nollywood Dreams, BLKS, Collective Rage, Charm, School Girls (MCC Theater); The New Englanders, Sugar in Our Wounds, Important Hats… (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Comeuppance, Fabulation, The Death of the Last Black Man… (Signature Theatre); Samara, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (Soho Rep.); Today Is My Birthday (Drama Desk nomination, Page 73). Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama.