The Long Christmas Ride Home, by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel, was performed at Theatre Tribe in North Hollywood in 2007. Stuart Rogers recieved an Ovation Award for Best Director for this production. We also received an LA Times Critics' Choice during our run From March 23rd through May 26th.
This was the second Theatre Tribe production for which I did sound design and gained me the title of resident composer/sound designer. For the show I composed all original music, except for a few traditional Christmas songs, created the sound design and became part of the perfomace by playing shamisen (a 3 stringed japanese guitar) while pearched on a small platform 8 feet above the stage.

Some reviews from the performance:

"Composer Thadeus Frazier-Reed's live percussion and shamisen music gibe perfectly with the show's thematic emphasis on Japanese culture and folk tradition."
- Kathleen Foley; LA Times - Critics' Choice

"... Thadeus Frazier-Reed's score is the heartbeat of the show. Reed's sound design is equally strong, and one effect, the simple noise of windshield wipers working in a deathly quiet car, encapsulates in a sound the terrible moment of an entire family afraid to speak."
- Terry Morgan; Variety

Musical Selections from The Long Christmas Ride Home:
Let him be beautiful || 3'47" mp3
Ukiyo-e || 2'01" mp3
Rebecca || 0'42" mp3
Claire || 0'31" mp3
Stephen || 1'05"mp3

special thanks to Lewis Keller for his drum and guitar work on Rebecca and Claire