Panelist:Michael Lawshé
Supervising Sound Editor
Michael E. Lawshé grew up in Los Angeles recording all sorts of things into small cassette and reel to reel tape recorders. While in UCLA’s Theatre Department, he found himself designing and editing the sound and doing re-recording in the Film and Television Departments graduate thesis programs for both UCLA and USC. He received his Degree in Technical Theatre from UCLA in 1983.
After working around Southern California in small theatres, and teaching High School for a couple of years, he started as a Sound Effects Editor, and became a Sound Supervisor and Mixer for an independent company in Hollywood. A few years later, he began editing at the old MGM/Lorimar [what is now Sony] studios in Culver City where he became a Sound Supervisor overseeing the audio through the final mix. He moved to Warner Bros. to help restart their Sound Department in 1993. Michael has received 16 Motion Picture Sound Editing Peer award nominations for Outstanding Sound editing and has won one of these “Golden Reel” awards for “The Fugitive” TV series.
He has had 8 Emmy nominations and has won three times for “Smallville” which currently airs with his other show, “Supernatural” - Thursdays on the CW network. Michael and his wife, Keri Dearborn are “rockhounds” and amateur paleontology enthusiasts. They have traveled to around the American West and Canada to excavate dinosaur bones and other fossils. They have also journeyed to Hawaii, Curacao, Southern Australia, Turkey and, last year to Mongolia experiencing Total solar eclipses.
