Hana Shiro

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Passionate about sound in theater, dance, music, and live entertainment, shaping that invisible source to the pleasure of the audience, and to let everyone's voices be heard. 

Hana Shiro
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Hana Shiro

(she/they)

Sound designer and stage manager

About me

Hana Shiro is a sound designer and stage manager based in Fort Collins, Colorado. She enjoys working with everything audio, be it recording sound effects, designing a show, or laying out a new speaker system. Working on a variety of sound designs at Colorado Stage University's School of Music, Theater, and Dance, they aim to communicate the ideas of the stories being told and elevating the voices of others.

Also being a stage manager, she loves to work to support the production and ensure that everyone can succeed. Her philosophy regarding anything stage managment is that communication is key to a great production, and the stage managment team is the medium through much of the communication of a production travels.

When they aren't working in the theater, Hana can be found going on long bike rides, playing her favorite video games, or rebuilding her computer again.

Skills

Hardware

Sound boards

  • Behringer X32 series
  • Behringer Xenyx series
  • Mackie Micro series

Audio interfaces

  • Focusrite Scarlett series
  • Behringer UM series
  • M-Audio MobilePre series
  • PreSonus AudioBox series

Microphones

  • Dynamic (Behringer, Shure, Blue Yeti, Tascam, Sennheiser)
  • Condenser (Audio Technica, Shure)

Software

Audio processing

  • QLAB Pro Audio and Video
  • Audacity
  • Adobe Audition

Drafting

  • SolidWorks
  • Fusion360
  • AutoCAD
  • Vectorworks

Productivity

  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Microsoft Office
  • Google Suite

Technical skills

Sound Design

  • Deciding sounds

Live shows

  • Live mixing a show (A1)
  • Balancing live pit orchestra with vocals
  • Setting up a mixing console (incl. digital routing)

Recording/audio manipulation

  • Setting a gain structure and EQ
  • Selecting best type of microphone
  • Editing audio in appropriate software

MISC

Certifications

  • Colorado State Driver's License
  • United States Passport
  • Dassault Systèmes Additive Manufacturing
  • Wilderness First Aid (in progress)

Resume

(Note that all resume information has been modified for use on the web. Contact me for a complete one)      

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Current projects

What I'm working on right now!      

Complete Works of William ShakeSpeare Abridged

Colorado State University Theater

I am an assistant sound designer on this show, and am super excited to work on it as my first show at CSU! Opens April 24th, 2026, click here for tickets.

Dracula

Colorado State University Theater

My first time as a lead sound designer at CSU, and this is one of my dream shows to design for, so I'm loving working on this production! Dates and tickets not yet available.

Portfolio

Each portfolio item is laid out by category; click on an item to learn more. 

  • All Items
  • Sound design
  • Stage management
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Sound Design

Dracula (ongoing)

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Sound Design

Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (ongoing)

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Stage Management

Hello Dolly

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Sound Design

Alice in Wonderland

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