Stages Consultants, New Theatre Planning and Design Practice, Opens for Business

Stages Consultants, a new theatre planning and design practice, opened its doors January 3.

Founded by industry veterans Damian Doria and Alec Stoll, the firm will offer full-service consulting in acoustics and theatre design. By choosing to work with a small number of clients at a time, Doria and Stoll say their goal is to combine the benefits of a small firm with the leadership, design, and judgment skills of an experienced practice. Stages' principals have nearly 40 years of consulting experience, and another 30 in the performing arts industry.

Stoll leads the theatre design consulting practice, which will provide building programming, theatre and space planning, auditorium design, and stage equipment specification. His career includes stints as a senior consultant for both Fisher Dachs Associates and Charles Cosler Theatre Design in New York. He is a member of the American Society of Theatre Consultants and serves on the board of directors of the League of Historic American Theatres.

Doria leads Stages' acoustical consulting practice, which will include noise and vibration control and room acoustical design as well as full A/V systems design and specification. During his 17 years with Artec Consultants Inc, in New York, he held many titles including president, partner, principal auditorium designer, and principal acoustician, while leading or overseeing the planning and design of many internationally renowned performance venues. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and member of Tau Beta Pi and the Order of the Engineer.

Stages Consultants can be reached at 732-333-8003 or through email at info@stagesconsultants.com.