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AMERICAN THEATRE: A San Francisco-based sound designer and composer, Caruthers creates immersive theatrical soundscapes and experimental electronic music. His 300-plus credits include Troilus and Cressida for Oregon Shakespeare Festival; 1984, The Winter’s Tale, Pictures from Home, and Born Yesterday for Alley Theatre; Frankenstein: Playing With Fire for Guthrie Theater; and Sweat for Center Repertory Company. What’s next: Sound design for Assimilation and Smoke and Shadows with Word for Word at Z Space, and Alice, Formerly of Wonderland, an a cappella musical, at TheatreWorks.