Announcing Nextstage Design -- A New Theatre Design Firm

Nextstage Design announces it has launched as a new theater design firm with decades of experience and a rich portfolio of completed work. Nextstage Design is dedicated to providing up-to-date, high-quality theater design and planning, while paying careful attention to the details that make for better buildings.

Founding partners Gene Leitermann and Tony Forman share 37 years of combined experience as theater design consultants. Also part of the firm are John Coyne, director of the scene design program at University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and Matt Welander, an assistant professor at Yale School of Drama. Until recently, all four held senior positions at Theatre Projects Consultants, where they were responsible for more than 100 building projects and studies. The company says Nextstage Design provides expertise and insight to architects, engineers, building owners, and end-users to make performance spaces function superbly and efficiently. A full range of services is offered, from preliminary studies to construction contract documents and administration.

"We know how theaters work," comments co-founder Forman. "We're actively engaged in the performing arts as educators, production designers, and technical managers. And we've worked in facility operations, arts organization leadership, at renowned training institutions, opera companies, and regional theaters."

Nextstage Design is located in New Haven, Connecticut, midway between New York and Boston. "New Haven is our home," observes co-founder Leitermann. "We all trained at Yale School of Drama, and we've collaborated with New Haven-based architects again and again over the years. Add to that the convenience of rail transportation to New York and Boston, and New Haven is the obvious choice."

"At Nextstage Design, we understand the unprecedented challenges facing the performing arts today. We're here to help create environmentally and economically sustainable solutions for the twenty-first century."

For more information see the URL below or contact Tony Forman at tforman@nextstage-online.com or 203-936-6566.