2012 NATEAC Advisory Board


		Richard Brett is a Chartered Engineer and theatre consultant specialising in stage planning and engineering. He specified the first computerized power flying installation and the famous Drum Revolve stage for the Olivier Theatre in London. Over 40 years he has worked worldwide on projects like the multi-form Derngate Hall, the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts, the Kwai Tsing Theatre in Hong Kong, and on opera houses in London, Sydney and Copenhagen. He conceived the idea of Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conferences in the UK in 2002 because he was concerned that clients, architects, consultants and practitioners were not exchanging information and many basic mistakes were being made on a range of projects. He is a chartered engineer as well as a theatre technician and was made a Fellow of the ABTT for services to the technical aspects of theatre in 2006. For more information on the previous TEA Conferences, please see www.theatre-event.com

		William B. Gorlin serves as McLaren Engineering Group’s Entertainment Division Chief. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in engineering from Cornell University, and is a licensed Professional Structural Engineer. He has over 26 years of experience in structural analysis, design and inspection of scenic, entertainment and amusement structures, staging, rigging, buildings, show action equipment, architectural themeing, sculptures, and other frameworks on a wide range of projects nationwide and worldwide. He has served or is currently serving as a member of the Plasa Rigging Working Group, including serving as its Performer Flying Task Group chairman; ASCE; the Cornell Society of Engineers; the Village of Briarcliff, NY Planning Board; and Director of the SEAoNY. He has published articles in industry periodicals, and is a frequent lecturer at various Universities and association meetings.

		Scott F. Georgeson, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP is an award-winning architect with over 24 years experience designing performing arts centers and complex projects throughout North America and is currently a Theatre Architect at WorkShop Architects. Prior experience includes design of the new theatre for Peninsula Players Theatre in Door County, Wisconsin. Georgeson is a frequent presenter on theatre design at the annual conventions of the United States Institute for Theater Technology (USITT) and the League of Historic American Theatres. He is currently running USITT Architectural Commission’s Design Competition for architectural and theatre students. Long an advocate of protecting the environment, his design of Forest Hill Center for the Performing Arts was one of the first theatres in the country to receive a Silver LEED rating. The project also received design awards from AIA Michigan and Wisconsin. His work on the Schauer Arts and Activity Center received awards from USITT, AIA Wisconsin and the first Presidential Award from the Association of Licensed Architects. In 1993 he was named an “Emerging Voice” by AIA Wisconsin.

		Jake Moerschel is the Assistant Stage Manager for the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). He began working for the BSO in 1992 as a stagehand for the Tanglewood Music Center and worked on the opening of Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood in 1994, began full time for the BSO in 2001 as a Stage Technician, and became the Assistant Stage Manager in 2006. He has toured across the country with the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony Orchestras and is responsible for all temporary and permanent rigging in BSO venues. Jake is currently overseeing an upgrade of the rigging control system at Symphony Hall in Boston as well as the rigging design of a new sound system in the Hall.

		Richard Pilbrow, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Theatre Projects Consultants, is one of the world's leading theatre design consultants, a theatre, film and television producer, and an internationally known author and stage lighting designer. Theatre Projects — celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2007 — has become the pre-eminent theatre consulting organization in the world, with over 1000 projects in 50 countries to its credit,. Mr. Pilbrow is a pioneer of modern stage lighting in Britain. In 2005 he was honored as Lighting Designer of the Year by Lighting Dimensions magazine and in the premier edition of LiveDesign was named as one of the ten visionaries among designers and artists, who were the most influential people in the world of visual design for live events. Mr. Pilbrow is a Fellow of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, the Association of British Theatre Technicians and is Joint President of the UK Association of Lighting Designers.

		Russel H. Read is currently the Director of Operations for the AT&T Performing Arts Center, Mr. Read has over twenty-five years of experience in the entertainment industry as an operations manager, designer, lighting and sound technician, pryotechnician, and arts administrator. A native Texan, Russell may be found restoring antique British cars with his wife or embarking on a series of road trips in one of their restored vehicles…always with a tool bag in the trunk!

		Monona Rossol is a chemist, artist, and industrial hygienist. She worked seven years as a research chemist for the University of Wisconsin and a year with an industrial research laboratory. From 1977 to 1987, she practiced industrial hygiene at the Center for Safety in the Arts in New York, a group that she co-founded. In 1987 she founded ACTS (Arts, Crafts, and Theater Safety) and continues this work to the present. She has been a full professional member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association since 1984. Since 1995, she has been the Safety Director for Local USA 829, United Scenic Artists, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). She lectures and consults in the US, Canada, Australia, England and Mexico, writes a monthly newsletter for ACTS, and has written seven books, one of which won a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries.

		Adam Shalleck, AIA, Founder, President The Shalleck Collaborative, Inc. is nearing 25 years of theatre consulting, coming from an education in architecture coupled with work in technical theatre. He spent a summer at ARTEC Consultants in 1989 after a year-long internship with S. Leonard Auerbach & Associates, to which he would return for another 14 years. He became a licensed architect and Principal along the way and spent the entirety of his career equally steeped in the conception, design and implementation of auditoria and other performing arts and entertainment spaces, and technical production systems. Adam founded The Shalleck Collaborative in 2003, and has since worked on nearly 150 projects of all scales and types. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design (his alma mater) and has authored articles and presented at several conferences including NATEAC 2008. www.shalleck.com

		Robert Shook, ASTC, is a partner in the Chicago office of Theatre Planners Schuler Shook. Recent projects include the New York State Theater, McCaw Hall in Seattle, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, and the Civic Opera House, Harris Theatre, Pritzker Pavilion, and Victory Gardens Theater, all in Chicago. He promotes intimacy and flexibility in theatre design and is a strong proponent of the collaborative process in the development of successful performance facilities.

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