VIEW PROJECT
The Public Theater / Public Audio / WNYC
ROMEO & JULIETA
A full-length bilingual audio drama of Shakespeare’s most beloved play.
2021
— ROMEO & JULIETA sits between producing, sound design, bilingual storytelling, and audio drama: a Shakespeare tragedy built for the listener’s imagination.
METHOD
Audio production; sound design; produced listening
Audio-First Space
Sound Design and Atmosphere for a bilingual, audio-forward adaptation.
Presented by WNYC Studios in collaboration with The Public Theater, ROMEO & JULIETA is a full-length audio production of Shakespeare's tragedy in English and Spanish.
An audio-first project where language and atmosphere build the space the audience cannot see.
Pre-Production
Audio drama production, bilingual storytelling, and sonic intimacy
Here, listening becomes the frame. Voice, breath, language, distance, and atmosphere carry the story without the help of a visible stage.
The project brings together adaptation, performance, recording, audio engineering, and the intimacy of bilingual storytelling.
Producing for the Ear
The process connects producing for the ear with sound design: shaping proximity, transitions, rhythm, and the listener's sense of place inside a bilingual story.
Producing for the ear means shaping what the listener can hear, imagine, and hold.
Audio storytelling makes space without walls. Every choice asks what the listener needs to hear, imagine, and sense.
Voice, Place, Distance
A bilingual audio project carried by voice, language, distance, and atmosphere.
ROMEO & JULIETA expands Jessica’s practice into produced listening, showing how sound can carry story without a visible stage.
Project Images
The listener is not outside the event; the sound invites them into it.
Recognition
A full-length bilingual audio production where language and atmosphere create the world of the piece.
ROMEO & JULIETA — WNYC Studios / The Public Theater
Presented by The Public Theater with WNYC Studios, ROMEO & JULIETA extends Jessica’s sound practice into audio drama, directing attention toward voice, language, proximity, and the imagined room.
A bilingual audio drama where sound supports intimacy, language, place, and the emotional nearness of voices across distance.
