Each consultant at Theatre Projects has their own favorites, but landmark venues include the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (setting a new precedent for reconfigurable performing arts centers), the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, Derngate Auditorium, Dr. Theatre Projects has been attached to over 1,500 projects in 80+ countries since 1957, each unique and challenging in its own right. “Our impact on the contemporary history of the live entertainment audience-to-performer relationship has been our hallmark and one of our guiding principles.” “In the last 65 years, we have made quite an impact on the ‘built environment,’ from the simplest of rooms to the most complex facilities in the performing arts,” notes Michael Nishball, Theatre Projects principal and one of the industry’s top equipment designers. Over time, seating and space design, stage and rigging design, AV system design, strategic planning, and other services became part of the Theatre Projects scope, and today the six global offices are all composed of multiple, dynamic teams that love to engage with almost any venue-related issue. Richard Pilbrow and Bryan Kendall started the company by buying up a small bundle of lighting stock for £150, a loan from Richard’s father.

The firm began as a scrappy lighting rental company in late-‘50s London. Now an international mainstay in performance design, Theatre Projects came from much humbler origins. All month long, Theatre Projects will be sharing memories on social channels and inviting followers to contribute their own stories and photos via an online memory book. This month, Theatre Projects celebrates 65 years in business-that’s 65 years shaping performance spaces, innovating in all areas of entertainment design, and collaborating with creative communities across the globe to reimagine the way we tell stories. Theatre Projects Founder, Richard Pilbrow

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