M. Florian Staab is a German-American Composer and Sound Designer.
He was born and raised in Germany (German/English native speaker) and is now based in New York.

Staab writes music and designs sound for Theater, Opera, Dance and other live performance events. He also records and mixes live shows and works in film media.

His work has been heard in over two hundred productions around the US and internationally. Recent designs include work for the Public Theater, the Irish Repertory Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, City Theatre Pittsburgh, Center Theatre Group, the Mint Theater Company, the Pearl Theatre Company, the Drama League, New Saloon, the Cell, Partial Comfort, Culture Project, Keen Company, Chicago Opera Vanguard and the Metropolitan Museum. Staab served as the resident sound designer at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference for nine seasons. He has been a visiting artist at several educational institutions such as Brown University, Williams College, Princeton University, Juilliard, Fordham University, Northwestern University and the Dalton School.

He is an associate artist with Sinking Ship Productions and teaches Visual and Aural Storytelling at NYU's Playwrights Horizons Theater School. He holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Staab cares deeply about civil rights, especially queer and trans rights, and is the former co-chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA). In his spare time, he enjoys running long distances and backpacking in the woods.

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Recording "On Beckett" with Bill Irwin at the Irish Rep