Founder & CEO, Cresent Haynes, is a sound designer for theatre, live audio engineer and post production designer. She attended and graduated from the illustrious Howard University’s Department of Theatre Arts. There she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Arts Technology, with a focus in Sound Design.

Cresent has been a freelance Sound Designer and Audio Engineer for 11 years. She received her first theatre review for her work as Sound Designer on the production “Not About Nightingales” directed by Eric Ruffin, describing her sound design as “an omniscient, foreboding force, ambitious in scope…”

Cresent’s credits include: Show Way the Musical National Tour (Kennedy Center), Mojada (1st Stage Theatre), Rhiannon Giddens ‘You’re the One’ National Tour, A Strange Loop (Woolly Mammoth Theater), The Mortification of Fovea Munson (Kennedy Center), Heilung ‘Drift’ International Tour, Fabulation (Mosaic Theater Company), The Laramie Project (Duke Ellington School of the Arts), N (Keegan Theatre), Hope in the Hood (Amazing Grace Conservatory) and many more.

Cresent has aspirations of one-day designing on Broadway, while still working in post production and touring with various performing artists as their live sound engineer.

​Our Founder is also a visual arts artist, with hopes of inspiring others through her art and art initiatives. She's created a sister company. Authentic Eclectic Magic LLC, an art and creative directing initiative that produces original experiences, exhibits, installations and galleries.

If you'd like to learn more about Cresents' journey as a visual artist, click here.