Goeun Everett has won a Primetime Emmy as part of the sound editing team behind Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay.

The team received the Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation for the episode “What To Expect On Your Trip.” The winning team included co-supervising sound editors Matt Yocum, MPSE, and Sang Kim; sound effects editors Goeun Everett and Ryan Sullivan; Foley editor Nick Seaman; music editor Nate Underkuffler; and Foley artists Leslie Bloome, MPSE, and Shaun Brennan.

Sound is one of those disciplines that succeeds by disappearing into the work. A door creaks. A car struggles down the road. Something moves in another room. An island begins to feel like an entity. When it works, you stop noticing the individual decisions and simply believe the place.

That was the challenge of Widow’s Bay, a series built around a remote New England island where the ordinary and the supernatural are constantly rubbing against one another. Apple describes the show as a blend of genuine horror and character driven comedy.

Goeun served as a lead sound effects editor on the series, contributing to that world as part of a much larger collaborative effort across sound effects editing, sound design, Foley, dialogue, music and mixing. And that part matters.

Great sound is rarely the work of one person imposing an idea on everything else. It is people listening to one another, building on what came before them, knowing when their own contribution should come forward and knowing when it should get out of the way.

The Television Academy recognized that collective work on Sunday night. Widow’s Bay went on to win eight Emmys during the second night of the 78th Emmy Awards, including awards for sound editing and sound mixing.

We have had the privilege of watching Goeun practice this craft for years: obsessing over details most people will never consciously hear, trying something again because it still does not feel quite right, and holding herself to a standard considerably less forgiving than anyone around her.

So yes, we are incredibly happy for her. But we are just as happy to see an entire group of artists recognized for the work that made Widow’s Bay feel like a place you could actually step into.

Congratulations to Goeun and the entire Widow’s Bay sound team.

Hell of a thing.

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MAKING A PLACE YOU CAN HEAR

A conversation with Goeun Everett about experimentation, collaboration, invisible craft and building the sound of Widow’s Bay.

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