Nicola T. Chang is an award-winning composer/sound designer for stage and screen.
Nicola T. Chang is an award-winning composer/sound designer for stage and screen. Her works include the three Olivier-nominated plays: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, The Swell and A Playlist for the Revolution. She was the Composer/Sound Designer on the 2020/21 Old Vic 12 cohort and a current BAFTA Connect Member (Film Composer). She was a co-winner of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund (Audio Design) in 2021, and has received a WhatsOnStage nomination for Best Sound Design, four Off West-End Award nominations in Sound Design and a BroadwayWorldUK nomination in both Sound Design and Musical Direction.
As a performer, she plays Keys 2/Percussion in Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (UK Tour), and has previously appeared in Six the Musical (West End) as deputy MD/Keys 1 and in STOMP! (West End/World Tour) as a cast-member. She has performed with the Chineke! Orchestra, the Women of the World Orchestra and the London Film Music Orchestra, and at venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and the Shakespeare’s Globe.
She currently works with various theatre and dance companies as a composer/musical director, including National Youth Theatre, British Youth Musical Theatre, National Youth Ballet, Rambert and House of Absolute. In 2021, she scored the short film LAID, which won Best Sci-Fi at Cannes Shorts and was an official selection at the New York Film Festival. In January 2019 she premiered her Concerto for Ping Pong and Piano Trio at Queen Elizabeth Hall, which was then performed in Shanghai later in the year. In 2017, she conducted the London Film Music Orchestra playing her original soundtrack to The Perfect Dinner, accompanied by a live screening of the film.
She also works extensively in audio plays and radio dramas. Her work on the “Fully Amplified” Podcast Series for Futures Theatre was awarded Silver at the British Podcast Awards in 2022. She co-created the audio work Mooncake with Isabella Leung as part of 45North’s “Written on the Waves” programme in 2021, and co-created Sonic Phở with Anna Nguyen in 2022.
Her selected theatre credits include: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (West End/Royal Court/New Diorama), The Importance of Being Earnest, Kerry Jackson (National), My Neighbour Totoro, All Mirth and No Matter (RSC), Skeleton Crew (Donmar Warehouse), Minority Report (Nottingham Playouse/Birmingham Rep/Lyric Hammersmith), The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man (Nottingham Playhouse/Blackpool Grand/Coventry Belgrade), White Pearl, Sound of the Underground (Royal Court), TRIBE, Of the Cut (Young Vic), The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho), The Swell, Little Baby Jesus (Orange Tree), A Playlist for the Revolution, Communion (Bush), Feral Monster (National Theatre of Wales), A Doll’s House (Sheffield Crucible), Reverberation (Bristol Old Vic), Dziady (Almeida), and The Death of Ophelia (Shakespeare’s Globe).
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