Paula Fairfield

Paula Fairfield is a Canadian American sound designer and sound artist, based in Southern California. She is best known for her work on the series Game of Thrones. She has a BAFTA Award for House of the Dragon (won 2023); and a total of fifteen Emmy nominations: one for Agatha All Along, one for Rings of Power, one for House of the Dragon, one for 3 Body Problem, six for Game of Thrones (won in 2015 and 2019), three for Lost, and grew up in a nearby town called Bridgewater. She attended college at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (NSCAD) in the early 1980s studying art history and photography. After graduating with a BFA, she moved to Montreal for two years where she worked as an artist and did a training program at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB)'s Studio D. Fairfield then moved to Toronto where she co-managed Charles Street Video, a non-profit centre run by artists. Her video and film art was exhibited all over the world and resides in several collections including the National Gallery of Canada. This is where she learned how to edit sound and sound design for television and film.

Life in the United States Fairfield moved to Los Angeles in 1998. The studio is set up for Dolby Atmos and uses PMC monitors and an Avid Pro Tools S6 console. She left Los Angeles for the Coachella Valley after a divorce from her wife and losing her brother, sister and father to cancer.