4x Grammy-winner Lawrence Manchester is very much in-demand – whether mixing iconic performances on SNL (Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Noah Kahan, Kacey Musgraves), recording an 80 piece choir on-set for Maestro Director Bradley Cooper, tracking vocals with Dua Lipa, recording Jon Batiste at Carnegie Hall, remixing David Bowie‘s “Space Oddity” in Dolby Atmos, or mixing Billie Eilish live to a worldwide Global Citizen TV audience of millions.
Lawrence just received his third Emmy nomination, this one in the Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special category for his work as Music Mixer – SNL50: The Homecoming Concert (Peacock).
Lawrence recorded and mixed the orchestral score to Spike Lee’s latest film Highest 2 Lowest (A24 / Apple TV+) and the Original Broadway Cast Recordings for SMASH and Floyd Collins. He recently received two Grammy nominations in the Best Musical Theater Album category for co-producing the 2024 Broadway cast albums of both The Outsiders and The Wiz; a category for which he received Grammy Awards over the past two consecutive years for Some Like It Hot (2023) and Into The Woods (2022).
Lawrence served as the vocal recording engineer for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, mixed Camila Cabello‘s Apple Music Live concert from Lisbon in Dolby Atmos, mixed Katy Perry‘s Rock In Rio set and Norah Jones live from Red Rocks, and recorded and mixed two seasons of the beloved Apple TV+ musical series Schmigadoon!.
Some of his other 100+ films include KPop Demon Hunters, Mean Girls (2024), White Noise, The Departed, Dear Evan Hansen, Bros., The Last Five Years, The Girl on the Train, Godless, True Grit, Noelle, Frida, The Woman in the Window, Across the Universe, The Good Shepherd, and I, Tonya.
Some of his other 35+ Broadway cast album recordings include Harmony, Caroline or Change, Something Rotten!, Flying Over Sunset, A Bronx Tale, The Prom, Head Over Heels, The Cher Show, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Godspell, Pippin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Kiss Me Kate.
Numerous solo artist credits include albums with Idina Menzel, Sutton Foster, Kelli O’Hara, Jessica Vosk, Jimmy Scott, Billy Porter, Matthew Morrison, David Sanborn, Natalia Lafourcade, The Count Basie Orchestra, Dionne Warwick, Michel Legrand, John Fogerty, Liza Minnelli, and Bette Midler.
Lawrence is also the music mixer for NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and co-producer of Fallon’s Grammy-winning comedy album, Blow Your Pants Off. During his sixteen years with Jimmy, he’s mixed thousands of live performances by hundreds of artists including The Roots, Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, BTS, Adele, Prince, Lady Gaga, Beastie Boys, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Sting, Metallica, Ariana Grande, President Barack Obama, Green Day, Arctic Monkeys, The Avett Brothers, The 1975, Blake Shelton, Public Enemy, Dave Matthews Band, Shakira, U2, Foo Fighters, J.Lo, and The Who, and has collaborated on viral videos surpassing twenty-two billion views.
PRESS:
Broadway.com – April 2025
Mix Online: SNL50 – April 2025
City Life Org – August 2023
WJBQ: The Nite Show with Danny Cashman – March 2023
Broadway World – September 2022
SHOOT – August 2021
Variety – April 2020
Playbill – March 2019
Playbill – May 2018
Mix Magazine – March 2017
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