Nate Edmondson is a New York–based, multi-award-winning composer, sound designer and lyricist working across theatre, live entertainment and screen. For more than sixteen years, his songs, scores and sound designs have been heard on stages around the world, with work presented throughout Australia, Asia, Europe and North America.
With a background in classical and jazz performance, Nate trained as a trombonist and pianist, and performed extensively as a singer-songwriter before studying at Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).
Nate has received multiple Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Score and Sound Design. His sound design for Sydney Theatre Company’s two-part stage epic The Harp in the South earned him a Helpmann Award nomination, while his work on All My Sons received Best Score at the Somerset Fellowship of Drama Awards in the UK.
His scores for The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show have accompanied record-breaking New York seasons, West End engagements and extensive international touring. The production received Drama Desk and Off-Broadway Alliance Award nominations and has become one of the world’s most widely-performed children’s theatre productions.
Nate’s musical theatre credits include Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The Musical, Sesame Street the Musical — on which he collaborated with Broadway composers Tom Kitt and Helen Park — and Peter Rabbit the Musical. His extensive work in branded entertainment includes projects with Disney, Pixar, Warner Bros., Sesame Workshop, Penguin and LEGO.
Beyond the stage, Nate has created music and sound for film, television, streaming productions, podcasts and commercial media. Selected projects include StudioCanal’s Paddington Saves Christmas, a filmed adaptation of Massenet’s Cendrillon with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and Penguin Books’ The World of Eric Carle digital series.
Nate has also written and produced plays, musicals and screenplays, and worked as a dramaturg in the development of numerous stage and screen projects. As an educator, he has taught and mentored emerging artists at institutions including NIDA, the University of Technology Sydney and the Australian Institute of Music.
He is a recipient of an Australia Council ArtStart Grant and the Mike Walsh Fellowship, and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
