Biography
Simon Froud, known as Froud, is an artist, designer and performer, whose practice ranges from sound design and digital art direction, solo performance work, visual art, and creating experimental technologies in performance.
His work operates in the intersections and oscillations between art and technology. Notions of time/space, immersion and interaction, the individual and the collective experience informs his work to comment on a spectrum of topics.
Froud often advises on projects, both technically & artistically, facilitates workshops and guest speaks. He regularly collaborates on projects with other artists and companies from multiple disciplines. He also works nationally and internationally as a stage, production & technical manager.
Froud is also an associate lecturer at Rose Bruford College, and the University of Chichester.
CV
EDUCATION
2017-18 MA Digital Media, University of Sussex
Recipient of the Chancellor's Masters Scholarship
2014-17 BA (Hons) Theatre, University of Chichester
First Class
LECTURING
2022 Associate Lecturer - University of Chichester - BA (Hons) Theatre
2021-22 Associate Lecturer - Rose Bruford College - BA (Hons) Theatre and Social Change
FACILITATOR
2021 Paths ‘Into & Through the Arts’ - Workshop Leader - Suffolk New College
2020 MaxMSP for Live Art - Workshop Leader - Various
2018 We Could be Heroes - Workshop Leader - Bootworks Theatre Company & B-SIDE WHY? Festival
PROJECTS
2017 THE DRIFT
R&D Sharing, The ShowRoom, University of Chichester
2016 FABMAX
Online Release V1.0
COLLABORATIONS
2019 We Could Be Heroes - Bootworks Theatre Company & Curtis Arnold-Harmer
Camden People’s Theatre, SPRINT Festival 2019
2017 The Cities Project - Ashley Williams & Froud
DESIGNER
2021 The Dan Daw Show - Dan Daw Creative Projects - Video Designer
University of Chichester InterACT 2021 - Interactive Performance Festival - Website Design
2020 JeremyHarrison.online - Research Excellence Framework (REF) & Profile - Website Design
The Candle Project - Abigail Conway - Micro Interactive Website Design
FORGE (R&D) - Rachel Mars - Associate Sound Designer
When We Died - Alexandra Donnachie - Production Designer
2019 TOUCH - Secondhand Dance - Sound Designer
24 Italian Songs and Arias - Brian Lobel - Lighting Designer
AWARDS
2017 In Between Time Festival (IBT) - Student Prize
PRODUCTION
2022 Production Manager - We Touch, We Play, We Dance - Secondhand Dance - Japan Tour
Production Support - Life: LIVE! - Lucy McCormick - Lisbon Tour
Production Manager - Punk Alley - Moxie Brawl
2021 Production Support - The Buildy-Uppy Dance Show - Anatomical - Christmas Tour
Technical Adviser & Production Manager - Climate Fit (COP26) - Inspector Sands, United Nations & Cambridge Institute for Sustainability
Digital Content Producer - University of Chichester InterACT 2021 - Interactive Performance Festival
Live Projections Operator - HEDDA - David Hoyle - Film
Production Manager - The Dan Daw Show - Dan Daw Creative Projects
2020 Production Manager - Night Tree - Secondhand Dance - Film
Technical Adviser - The Candle Project - Abigail Conway - R&D
Live Projections Operator - Truth to Power Café - Jeremy Goldstein - Film
Technical Stage Manager, Video & Sound Operator - I'm a Phoenix, Bitch - Bryony Kimmings LTD - Perth Festival
Technical Stage Manager, Video & Sound Operator - I'm a Phoenix, Bitch - Bryony Kimmings LTD - Sydney Opera House
2019 Technical Manager - TOUCH - Secondhand Dance - UK Tour
Technical Stage Manager, Video & Sound Operator - I'm a Phoenix, Bitch - Bryony Kimmings LTD - Australia Tour
Technical Stage Manager, Video & Sound Operator - I'm a Phoenix, Bitch - Bryony Kimmings LTD - Fringe Festival
Technical Stage & Production Manager - The Origin of the Pieces - Steve Pretty - Wilton's Music Hall
Sound Technician - Binaural Dinner Date - ZU-UK - UK Tour
Stage Manager - Atomic 50 - Abigail Conway & Blackhorse Workshop
Technical Stage Manager, Video & Sound Operator - I'm a Phoenix, Bitch - Bryony Kimmings LTD - ACCA, Brighton
2018 Stage Manager - SUPERBLACKMAN - Lekan Lawal - Battersea Arts Centre
Lighting & Sound Technician - Walter & Lenny - Julia st John & Peter Mcenery - Bernstein in Chichester
Technical Stage Manager, Video & Sound Operator - I'm a Phoenix, Bitch - Bryony Kimmings LTD - BAC
Technical Manager - Remembering Lenny: Dame Patricia Routledge in Conversation
Lighting & Sound Technician - D-Code - Yael Karavan - Tara Arts, London
Stage Manager - Latitude Festival - Town Hall Stage
Technician - Festival Press Launch - Bernstein in Chichester
Lighting & Sound Technician - Pupik - Naomi Silman & Yael Karavan - UK Tour
Lighting & Sound Technician - Pupik - Naomi Silman & Yael Karavan - Israel
2017 Technical Assistant - Home Sweet Home - subject to_change - International Arts Carnival, Hong Kong
Stage Manager - Latitude Festival - WellCome Trust Hub
Ambassador - The Sick of the Fringe - WellCome Trust & ICC
Lighting Technician - The Oppression Games - Smallest Majority - Camden People's Theatre
2016 Production Assistant - The Many Doors of Frank Feelbad - Bootworks Theatre Company - Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Installation Facilitator - Time Lab - Abigail Conway - Forest Fringe, Edinburgh
MFA Coordinator & Assistant - California Institute of Integral Studies & University of Chichester
Lighting Operator - Women's Hour - Sh!t theatre - The ShowRoom, University of Chichester
Lighting Operator - Pond Wife - Holly & Ted - Marlborough Theatre, Brighton
Lighting Operator - Can I Start Again Please - Sue Maclaine - The ShowRoom, University of Chichester
Lighting Operator - O NO! - Jamie Wood - The ShowRoom, University of Chichester
2015-17 Front of House - The ShowRoom, University of Chichester
