Phillip Owen (Sound Designer / Teacher / Composer / Musician) has been working professionally in the performing arts for almost 25 years. Early in his career, he lived abroad for the better part of 4 years in Germany and Ireland, also considering this a hugely influential part of his life. He plays the guitar. He holds a BA in English Literature from Texas Tech University, an MPhil in Irish Theatre Studies from Trinity College, Dublin, and an MFA in Sound Design from Yale School of Drama.“There is a time in every person’s education when they arrive at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that they must take themselves for better, for worse, as their portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to them but through their toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to them to till. The power which resides in them is new in nature, and none but they knows what that is which they can do, nor do they know until they have tried.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance