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Tab Mattos

M.A. Student

Tab Mattos (he/they) is a second-year MA student and aspiring sound designer attending San Francisco State University. Tab received his BA in Theatre Arts from SFSU as a part of the Blended Scholars program in Fall of 2024. As a designer, Tab is drawn to moments of truly human connection -- how sound makes audiences feel and what they leave with is crucial to their work. He is also passionate about research regarding labor invisibility and inequality within the theatre industry and much of their works aims to challenge this standard.

Tab is involved on-campus with the School of Theatre & Dance’s Student Advisory Board, and has previously designed sound for the Fall 2024 production of Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Off campus, Tab volunteers at 924 Gilman and is currently sound designing for Crowded Fire Theater’s Limp Wrist On The Lever by Preston Choi.