Dominic Bilkey is a Tony and Olivier Nominated Sound Designer and is currently Head of Sound & Video at the National Theatre in London.
He is actively involved in the teaching sound and associated technologies at several UK Universities. He is co-creator of Atlas Show Control and specializes in spatialized object-based audio.
Career Highlights
Online Designs: Original Readings, Viral – Online Film, Apollo 13, Birdsong
Online (Original Theatre)
Recent Designs: Maiden Voyage (Mark Cortale, Dale Franzen, Jonathan Murray
and Harvey Reese); This Is My Family (Southwark Elephant – Anthology
Productions); Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief Musical (The Other Palace –
Bill Kenwright Ltd);The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre, International, West
End & Broadway); Iolanthe, Pirates of Penzance – (English National Opera);
Darker Shores, Three Steps to Heaven – (Windsor Theatre Royal); Stumped –
(Original Theatre Hybrid); Into the Night – (Original Theatre Hybrid); Death of a
Salesman – Soundscape Designer (Elliott Harper Productions); Pippi
Longstocking the Musical (Royal & Derngate Northampton); Dick Whittington,
Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella & Aladdin (Windsor Theatre Royal); (Peter Pan
(National Theatre and White City Troubador); Highway One (Welsh Millennium
Centre) Shadowlands (Birdsong Productions); Go Bang Your Tambourine (Two’s
Company); Flarepath (Birdsong Productions); Jane Eyre (National Theatre/Bristol
Old Vic & Touring); Pinocchio (Guy James and Szpiezak Productions); Tommy
the Musical (Aria Entertainment, Guy James and Szpiezak Productions);
Birdsong (Birdsong Productions/Original Theatre).
Awards
2014 TTA Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Sound.
2022 Outer Critics Award for Sound Design – The Lehman Trilogy
Nominations
2019 Olivier Award for Sound Design – The Lehman Trilogy
2022 Tony Award for Sound Design – The Lehman Trilogy
Currently appearing in
HMS Pinafore
4 Dec 2025 - 7 Feb 2026
London Coliseum