Thomas Ryder Payne

Thomas Ryder Payne is a composer and sound designer for theatre, dance and film. 

For Crow’s Theatre: Bad Roads, The Master Plan, Perceptual Archaeology, Red Velvet, Uncle Vanya, Orphans For The Czar, MixTape, Julius Caesar, A&R Angels, Boy In The Moon, Wedding Party, The Watershed, Someone Else.

Other Theatre: Designs for Stratford, Festival Shaw Festival, Mirvish, Productions Soulpepper, Canadian Stage, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraiile, Young People’s Theatre, Modern Times Stage Company, Aluna, Theatre Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Theatre Gargantua, Nightwood Theatre, Toronto Dance Theatre, National Arts Centre, Centaur Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, and many others.

Film/TV: Plain View, 7A, Blood Harvest, Hero.Traitor.Patriot, Alegra & Jim, Robert’s Circle.

Education/Training: Studied composition with James Tenney, Honours BA, York University.