Speakers
Joanna Fang, Senior Foley Artist, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Joanna Fang MPSE is an Emmy award winning Foley artist and sound editor. An alumna of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Joanna developed a passion for Foley while studying Film and TV production. Graduating with several made for TV horror films under her belt, Joanna started an apprenticeship with lead Foley artist Leslie Bloome at New York’s Alchemy Post Sound and worked there for 7 years. In 2021, she joined Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Creative Arts Studios Sound Team as their senior Foley artist co-leading the development of their interactive Foley studio with senior Foley mixer Blake Collins.
Throughout her career, Joanna has cultivated a body of work spanning triple A video games, independent cinema, documentary film, installation art, television, and radio. She focuses on supporting unique storytellers through novel and empathy driven applications of performed sound. She has crashed a bus for This American Life’s Ira Glass, sprinted in heels for Celine Song’s The Materialists, and climbed mountains for Kojima Production’s Death Stranding 2. Her Foley is playable on several PlayStation titles including Helldivers 2, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, God of War Ragnarök, and Ghost of Yōtei.
In 2016, the Television Academy recognized Joanna as the first openly transgender woman of color to win a Primetime Emmy for her Foley work on A&E’s Cartel Land.