Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen

(Bio as of January 2026)

Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen (Co-Sound Designers) Milburn returns to The Goodman where from the late 1980’s he spent 17 seasons as a composer or resident sound designer working on over 70 productions including Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom in 1997. Bodeen returns to The Goodman, where he previously worked on Mirror of the Invisible World, The Odyssey and productions of The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, among others. Credits for Milburn and Bodeen include music composition and sound for The Goodman’s Betrayal and Broadway productions of Eureka Day, No Man’s Land & Waiting for Godot, The Miracle Worker; and sound for Purpose, Sweat, The Price, Of Mice and Men and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf  among others. They have created music and sound Off-Broadway, at many of America’s resident theaters (often at Steppenwolf) and at several international venues.