Brad Phillips – Sound Designer

Brad Phillips is a professional musician by trade, most known on The Purple Rose stage from his many appearances with Jeff Daniels’ Onstage & Unplugged. A violinist, fiddler, mandolinist, guitarist, and vocalist, In addition to serving as a Resident Artist and sound designer at PRTC (see credits below), Brad has provided musical elements for a number of Purple Rose productions (2AZ, Flint, Gaps in the Fossil Record, The Last Romance, Pickleball, Steel Magnolias, Talley’s Folly, Vino Veritas), as well as playing The Pilot in Willow Run. As a performing musician, Brad has appeared with Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Iggy Pop, Pat Metheny, The Verve Pipe, and is currently on tour with Patti LuPone in her show A Life in Notes. In 2014, he served as producer for Jeff Daniels’ studio recording “Days Like These,” and the 2016 collaboration with Brian Vander Ark called “Simple Truths.” Brad holds a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies, as well as a master’s in Improvisation, both from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance where he is now on faculty. Brad is enthusiastically proud to call The Purple Rose his creative home.

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