Sam Crawford

Speaker at the Teaching the Arts in the Age of A.I. Symposium

Sam Crawford’s compositions and sound designs have included works for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Venice Biennale, 2010), A.I.M by Kyle Abraham (Untitled Love, 2022), Camille A. Brown and Dancers (BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, 2016), and David Dorfman Dance (A(Way) Out of My Body, 2022). 

Recent film works include 32 Sounds, directed by Sam Green, for which Crawford acted as the headphone experience designer; the film was Oscar short-listed for Best Documentary Feature in 2024. La Medea, a live film collaboration with director Yara Travieso for which Crawford composed the music and wrote the libretto, premiered at P.S.122’s Coil Festival in 2017.

Since 2020, Crawford has taught sound design at the University of Maryland's School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. He became Co-Director of UMD’s Maya Brin Institute for New Performance in 2023.