Zane Birdwell is a

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-winning American audio producer, sound designer, and composer, originally from

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, and later based in

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Career

Birdwell has worked as a sound designer and engineer for

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, Ars Nova, and stageFARM. He currently works at the Naked Angels theater company. At the

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(2010), Birdwell was awarded a

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for his engineering work on the audiobook edition of

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's memoir ''Always Looking Up''. Birdwell has also engineered audiobooks for

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, Taya Kyle, and

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. Birdwell has written music for

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, Mango Languages, and Creative Teaching Press. He released the original album ''World Class People'' in 2010, and a compilation of previous works in film, television, and theater called ''Translations'' in 2012.

References

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