Bill Lacey

Bill Lacey is a senior sound designer/re-recording mixer, composer, and Grammy Award-winning mastering engineer. He brings more than three decades of experience in film, television, advertising, and music industries to his work. His music-centric approach to sound design and mixing has ensured success for many dozens of trailers, promos, and EPKs, notching dozens of Promax, Clio, Telly and NY Film Festival awards, including those for Halo, Kidding, Penny Dreadful, Ray Donovan, Homeland, The First Lady and The Fourth Estate. Recent projects sound designed and mixed by Bill that have been shortlisted for Clio Awards include trailers for Yellowjackets, Your Honor, Billions, and The Strand.

His restoration and mastering work includes the classic Fellini film La Dolce Vita, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony(two Grammy nominations), the Heifetz Collection(Grammy-winning), Sesame Workshop’s Old School, Vol. 3(profiled in Post Magazine), the Sound of Music and Hair soundtracks, and recordings by Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Lou Reed, Jefferson Airplane, Nina Simone, Sam Cooke and The Muppet Christmas Carol.

As a composer Bill has scored twelve films, six television shows and over a hundred trailers, promos and commercials. Along with Sandblast’s Loren Toolajian, he received a ProMax Gold Award for Best Original Score for Showtime’s House of Lies ‘Les Mais on de Lies’ and an Emmy nomination for his original score for the Smithsonian Channel’s 9/11 trailer.

Bill has written for the esteemed British publications Sound on Sound and Resolution magazines and currently lectures at Montclair State University in film, television , and video game sound.

Bill was interviewed for Akash Thakars’ Sound Business Podcast in April 2023.

He is a Wwise Certified Instructor, has a Bachlor of Professional Studies from Berklee College of Music in Boston, and a Master of Fine Arts in Video Game Music and Audio from The University of Chichester, UK.