Engineers
KATIE MAY
A GRAMMY Award-winning engineer and MPG Award winner, producer, and mixing and mastering engineer.
Head engineer at Real World Studios, her engineering credits include:
Gabrielle Aplin, Tom Jones, Peter Gabriel, The Breath, Tom Chaplin, John Smith, Wilkinson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bab L’Bluz, Anne-Marie, Clive Deamer, Josienne Clarke, Headie One, Seafarers, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Ferris & Sylvester, Blazin’ Fiddles, Martha Lewis, Some Bodies, Piglet.
Katie has worked on sessions for a number of artists and producers including: The 1975, Foals, Maggie Rogers, Elbow, Florence + The Machine, John Parish, J Hus, GoGo Penguin, Indigo Girls, The Comet Is Coming, Hannah Peel, Roger Waters, Cara Dillon, Ethan Johns, Liam Payne, Sub Focus, Tony Anderson, Erland Cooper, Alexis Ffrench, RIOPY, Marillion, Alan Power.
FIONA CRUICKSHANK
Engineer, producer, and film music editor Fiona Cruickshank is a three-time MPG Award winner. Securing wins for the Break-through Producer of the Year
and Recording Engineer of the Year categories in 2022 and again for Recording Engineer of the Year in 2024.
Fiona’s portfolio shows a breadth of creative approaches transcending film, music, and performance arts, from mixing the songs featured on Sex Education (seasons 2 & 3) to recording the orchestral elements of Paul Weller’s number-one album On Sunset. She also worked with Alicia Keys, on her single for Netflix series Queen Charlotte and The National on their highly anticipated album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein. Noteworthy films Fiona has worked on include The Little Mermaid, Greatest Days, and The Whale.
Recently, Fiona Cruickshank’s Film, TV, and gaming projects have seen her working with Christopher Benstead on The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Nick Foster on Lover Stalker Killer, and Nick Arundel & Rupert Cross on Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. New music collaborations include co-producing, recording, and mixing Keaton Henson’s latest instrumental album Somnambulant Cycles, as well as recording Anne Nikitin’s epic score for live experience Moonwalkers
DOM SHAW
A GRAMMY Award-winning engineer, producer, mixer and songwriter with credits including: Peter Gabriel, Birdy, Saya Gray, Squid, Anne-Marie, ZADA, Roopa Panesar, Lady Blackbird, Sanju Sahai, The Beat and Sarathy Korwar. Dom began his career in-house at Real World Studios working under artists and producers including: The 1975, Dan Carey, John Parish, Swindle, Ben Howard, Jaubi, Katie Melua, Gabrielle Aplin, Parquet Courts, Erland Cooper, Adam Nolly Getgood, Penya, Evelyn Glennie, Cara Dillon, Chris de Burgh, Chris Porter and Thomas Kahn.
BECCA HORDERN
Rebecca started her career as an assistant engineer and pro tools operator at AIR Studios. With 6 years of experience specialising in film and TV scoring sessions, her recent credits include: Bugonia (Jerskin Fendrix,) Wicked: For Good (Stephen Schwartz and John Powell,) Wuthering Heights (Anthony Willis,) Masters of the Universe (Daniel Pemberton,) Apex (Högni Egilsson,) Holland, Michigan (Alex Somers,) H is for Hawk (Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch,) The Twits (Oli Julian,) Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (Max Aruj and Alfie Godfrey,) Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (John Lunn,) Kingdom (Segun Akinola) Outside the world of film and TV, she has also worked with: Coldplay, Sam Roman, Ludovico Einaudi, Josh Groban, Caparezza, Michael Patrick Kelly, The Last Dinner Party, Suede