Ray K. Morgen

Sound Designer

2025, they/them MFA, Sound Design

Ray K. Morgen is a transdisciplinary artist and theater maker, and an MFA candidate in Sound Design at Carnegie Mellon University. Their work is rooted in acoustic exploration, embodiment research, trauma-informed practice, and their lived experience of disability. They are currently exploring devised work, ambisonic field recording, and spatialization techniques for live mixing and performance.

In September 2024, Ray designed the site-specific installation Singing Vessels and co-designed Reverberation as a participant in the International Program in Scenography—a two-week technical theater intensive at the ancient Roman Castrum in Ovidiu, Romania, hosted by OISTAT Romania.

Recent theatrical sound design credits include Lear by Young Jean Lee (CMU 2023, dir. Tatiana Baccari), Moon Zoo by Elle Thoni (CMU 2023, dir. Kaycee Sweirc), Constellations (CMU 2023, dir. Sarah Stowell), and the Island Shakespeare Festival 2023 Repertory Season. Their next sound design projects are Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Carlos Martinez at CMU in February 2025 and Antigone directed by Mathilde López at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in April 2025.

Work Samples

Constellations

By Nick Payne
Directed by Sarah Stowell
Sound engineer Ray K. Morgen
CMU School of Drama – April 2023

Reveration

Designed by Ray K Morgen, Antonio Saucedo Azpe, & Elvira Lucia Borg
International Program in Scenography
OISTAT Romania – September 2024

Lear

By Young Jean Lee
Directed by Tatiana Baccari
Sound designer Ray K Morgen
CMU School of Drama – November 2023