ITEAC Announces Graham Vick as Latest Addition as a Keynote Speaker

	Graham Vick

With just 34 days to go and less than 25 guaranteed full three-day delegate tickets left, the editorial board is delighted that renowned opera director Graham Vick, is the latest keynote speaker to join the growing presenter line-up of the International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference.

Artistic director of Birmingham Opera Company, he works in the world's major opera houses with the world's leading conductors, including Muti, Levine, Haitink, Gergiev, Runnicles, Ozawa, and Mehta. His pioneering work in Birmingham has attracted the attention of people and companies worldwide, and although a small operation, Birmingham Opera Company is now seen to be at the forefront of the modernization of opera and a pioneer in its development as a 21st century art form.

Current projects include Britten's Death in Venice in Berlin, Die Tote Stadt at La Scala, Semiramide in Pesaro, and a new commission by Giorgio Battistelli for Birmingham Opera Company.

Full Delegate tickets include access to social and refreshment areas and all other delegates. Prospective attendees are encouraged to book now to avoid disappointment. Once the current allocation of full three-day delegate tickets is sold there is no guarantee three-day tickets will be available.

Presented by the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT), ITEAC 2018, running June 3 - 5 in London, will be the fifth edition of the conference. Conceived in 2002 by the late renowned stage engineer and ABTT Fellow, Richard Brett, the event has grown from strength to strength. Founding sponsor is TAIT Technologies and global sponsor is Unusual Rigging.

Charcoablue, an International sponsor of ITEAC 2018, is a team of more than 70 theatre consultants, acousticians, and digital designer working across six world-wide studios.

The practice's current projects include: the recently completed Royal Birmingham Conservatoire; the forthcoming home for the London Symphony Orchestra -- the Centre for Music; the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, New York; two theatres in Chicago -- one for Steppenwolf Theatre Company and The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; and in Australasia work with the esteemed Sydney Theatre Company, as well the design of a new Waikato Regional Theatre in New Zealand.

Charcoalblue's running total of project collaboration awards include 30 RIBA awards and nominations, three RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist places, three USITT and four AIA Awards, and 18 Civic Trust awards.