Rob Bettle and Sam Clarkson are sound designers and engineers, each having accumulated over 20 years of international touring and West End experience.
They are redefining the way shows are created by making each step a more sociable, collaborative experience.
Acknowledging the importance and power of good, timely planning and communication across all departments, they dedicate as much time to the “quiet” moments as they do to the sound.
Rob and Sam believe these sound quiet times are a key ingredient in helping realise goals and in allowing the perfect design, system and sound to be created for every project or venue.
Theatre
Credits
DR SEUSS’S HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! THE MUSICAL
2026
Leeds Playhouse
Director: Tom Wright
Sound Designer
waitress
2026
UK Tour
Director: Diane Paulus
Sound Designer
midnight
2026
Sadler's Wells East
Director: Todrick Hall
Sound Designer
manic street creature
2026
Kiln Theatre
Director: Kirsty Patrick Ward
Sound Designer
beetlejuice
2026
Prince Edward Theatre, West End
Director: Alex Timbers
Associate Sound Designer
death note
2026
Barbican Theatre
Director: Stephen Whitson
Associate Sound Designer
midnight
2025
Sadler's Wells East
Director: Todrick Hall
Sound Designer
the book thief: a concert production
2025
Prince of Wales Theatre, West End
Director: Tom Jackson-Greaves
Sound Designer
Grayson musical
2025
Director: Sean Foley
Sound Designer
Workshop
roam musical concert
2025
Shaftesbury Theatre, West End
Director: Rupert Hands
Sound Designer
the hunchback of Notre dame - in concert
2025
Prince Edward Theatre, West End
Director: Jonathan O'Boyle
Sound Designer
starter for ten
2025
Bristol Old Vic / Birmingham Rep
Director: Charlie Parham
Sound Designer
austenland: the Musical concert
2025
Savoy Theatre, West End
Director: Jonathan O'Boyle
Sound Designer
clueless the musical
2025
Trafalgar Theatre, West End
Director: Rachel Kavanaugh
Sound Designer
stereophonic
2025
Duke of York's Theatre, West End
Director: Daniel Aukin
Associate Sound Designer
little shop of horrors
2024
Sheffield Lyceum
Director: Amy Hodge
Sound Designer & Production Engineer
your lie in April
2024
Harold Pinter Theatre, West End
Director: Nick Winston
Co-Sound Designer
spirited away
2024
London Coliseum, West End
Director: John Caird & Moako Imai
Sound System Designer
manic street creature
2024
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Director: Kirsty Patrick Ward
Sound Designer
the pirate, the princess & the platypus
2024
Polka Theatre
Director: Daniel Clarkson & Richard Hurst
Sound Designer
frozen
2024
Circustheater, Netherlands
Director: Michael Grandage
Associate Sound Designer & Production Engineer
clueless: the musical
2023
Churchill Theatre Bromley
Director: Rachel Kavanaugh
Sound Designer & Production Engineer
macbeth
2023
UK Tour / Washington DC, USA
Director: Simon Godwin
Sound Designer & Production Engineer
la bamba
2023
UK Tour
Director: Ray Roderick
Sound Designer & Production Engineer
a strange loop
2023
Barbican Theatre
Director: Stephen Brackett
Sound Designer & Production Engineer
hey duggee
2023
UK Tour
Director: Matthew Xia
Sound Designer & Production Engineer
stranger things: the first shadow
2023
Phoenix Theatre, West End
Director: Stephen Daldry
Associate Sound Designer & Production Engineer
life of pi
2023
Wyndham's Theatre, West End / UK Tour / New York / Boston
Director: Max Webster
Associate Sound Designer & Production Engineer
a little life
2023
Harold Pinter Theatre / The Savoy Theatre, West End
Director: Ivo Van Hove
Associate Sound Designer & Production Engineer
lemons lemons lemons
2023
Harold Pinter Theatre
Director: Josie Rourke
Associate Sound Designer & Production Engineer
jack and the beanstalk
2022
Hull New Theatre
Director: David Fleeshman
Sound Designer
manic street creature
2022
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Director: Kirsty Patrick Ward
Sound Designer
the pirate, the princess & the platypus
2022
Polka Theatre
Director: Daniel Clarkson & Richard Hurst
Sound Designer
fantastically great women who changed the world
2022
UK Tour
Director: Amy Hodge
Sound Designer & Production Engineer
watford big centenary celebration
2022
Cassiobury Park, Watford
Sound Designer & Production Sound Engineer
orlando
2022
Garrick Theatre, West End
Director: Michael Grandage
Associate Sound Designer & Production Engineer
handbagged
2022
Kiln Theatre
Director: Indhu Rubasingham
Associate Sound Designer
ich war noch niemals in New York
2021
Theatre des Westerns Berlin, Germany
Director: Caroline Brouwer
Sound Designer
waitress
2021
Adelphi Theatre, West End / UK Tour
Director: Diane Paulus
Associate Sound Designer
king kong (a comedy)
2019
The Vaults
Director: Owen Lewis
Sound Designer
mr. thing
2019
Arcola Theatre
Director: Tom Clarkson
Sound Designer
war horse
2019
International Tour
Director: Tom Morris
Associate Sound Designer & Senior Sound Engineer
anastasia
2019
Madrid / Stuttgart / Scheveningen / Japan
Director: Darko Tresnjak
Associate Sound Designer & Senior Sound Engineer
gypsy
2019
Manchester Royal Exchange
Director: Jo Davies
Associate Sound Designer
Caroline, or Change
2018
Hampstead Theatre / Playhouse Theatre, West End
Director: Michael Longhurst
Associate Sound Designer
something rotten
2018
Chungmu Art Center, South Korea
Associate Sound Designer
local hero
2018
Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh
Director: Bill Forsyth
Associate Sound Designer
the producers
2018
Manchester Royal Exchange
Director: Raz Shaw
Associate Sound Designer
me & my girl
2018
Chichester Festival Theatre
Director: Daniel Evans
Associate Sound Designer
the jungle
2018
Playhouse Theatre, West End
Director: Stephen Daldry & Justin Martin
Associate Sound Designer
fiddler on the roof
2017
Chichester Festival Theatre
Director: Daniel Evans
Associate Sound Designer
murder ballad
2016
Arts Theatre
Director: Sam Yates
Sound Designer
billy elliot
2015
International Tour
Director: Stephen Daldry
Associate Sound Designer & Senior Sound Engineer
the SCOTTSBORO boys
2014
Young Vic Theatre / Garrick Theatre, West End
Director: Susan Stroman
Associate Sound Designer & Senior Sound Engineer
american psycho
2013
Almeida Theatre
Director: Rupert Goold
Associate Sound Designer & Senior Sound Engineer
one man, two guvnors
2013
Adelphi Theatre / Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End / International Tour
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Associate Sound Designer & Sound Engineer