Kai Harada (sound designer)

Last updated July 17, 2025

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification . Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.
Find sources: "Kai Harada" sound designer – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this message )

Kai Harada is a sound designer.

Awards

Harada won a Tony Award for Best Sound Design in 2018, for The Band's Visit .^[1]

Harada has been nominated six times for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical, winning in 2018 for The Band's Visit.^[2]

References

↑ "2018 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. May 1, 2018. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
↑ "Drama Desk Winners for 2018". www.tdf.org.

v t e Tony Award for Best Sound Design in a Musical
Scott Lehrer (2008) Paul Arditti (2009) Robert Kaplowitz (2010) Brian Ronan (2011) Clive Goodwin (2012) John Shivers (2013) Brian Ronan (2014) Kai Harada (2018) Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz (2019) Peter Hylenski (2020/21) Gareth Owen (2022) Nevin Steinberg (2023) Cody Spencer (2024) Jonathan Deans (2025)

v t e Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design
Combined category (1980–2009)	Norman L. Berman (1980) John DiFusco (1985) Otts Munderloh (1986) Aural Fixation (1991) Paul Arditti (1992) Steve Canyon Kennedy (1993) John A. Leonard (1994) No Award (1995) Dan Moses Schreier (1996) John Gromada (1997) Tony Meola (1998) Christopher Shutt (1999) Jamie Mereness (2000) Christopher Shutt (2001) Dan Moses Schreier (2002) Acme Sound Partners (2003) Dan Moses Schreier (2004) Paul Arditti (2005) Steve Canyon Kennedy (2006) Gregory Clarke (2007) Scott Lehrer (2008) Paul Arditti (2009)
Play (2010–present)	Fitz Patton (2010) Acme Sound Partners and Cricket S. Myers (2011) John Gromada (2012) Mel Mercier (2013) Matt Tierney (2014) Ian Dickinson (2015) Fitz Patton (2016) Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin (2017) Gareth Fry (2018) Nick Powell (2019) Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid (2020) No Award (2021) Ben and Max Ringham (2022) Ben and Max Ringham (2023) Ryan Rumery (2024) Paul Arditti (2025)
Musical (2010–present)	Acme Sound Partners (2010) Brian Ronan (2011) Acme Sound Partners (2012) Steve Canyon Kennedy / Scott Lehrer and Drew Levy / Tony Meola (2013) Brian Ronan (2014) Nevin Steinberg (2015) Dan Moses Schreier (2016) Nicholas Pope (2017) Kai Harada (2018) Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz (2019) Peter Hylenski (2020) No Award (2021) Gareth Owen (2022) Scott Lehrer and Alex Neumann (2023) Nick Lidster / Cody Spencer / Walter Trarbach (2024) Peter Hylenski (2025)

This theatrical biography is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.