P&PFC offers consulting services that are informed by an ongoing participation in production, emphasizing a practical and operationally cohesive approach to performing arts facilities.
Click here to read an interview with Chris Buckley from the May 2006 issue of Live Design magazine.
SERVICES
- Performance facility and support space design
- Operational planning and budgeting
- Theatrical systems design - seating, staging, rigging, lighting, audio
- Fixture, furnishing & equipment specification
- Temporary facility design
PRIORITIES
- Creating a performance space that provides the audience and the performer with the best possible relationship-visually, acoustically, and aesthetically.
- Designing rehearsal studio facilities that allow for an efficient, safe, and artistically satisfying creative process.
- Integrating front of house and backstage support facilities so as to best serve the space for current and future uses.
- And at all times, bringing real world operational experience to bear on all aspects of the design in order to create a functional and maintainable facility.
RESUME
Christopher D. Buckley
(facility design & construction only)
1994-2001
Vice President, Production & Construction
The New 42nd Street, Inc., New York, NY
Responsible for the design and construction of various projects of the New 42nd Street, including the New Victory Theater and the New 42nd Street Studio Building/ Duke on 42nd Street Theater (both recipients of AIA awards). Creation and oversight of production departments at the New Victory and Duke Theaters; review of design and construction process of the Ford Center and the Roundabout's American Airlines Theater. Coordinated with state and municipal agencies regarding design and execution issues. Also acted as theatrical consultant on the Duke Theater and designed support space for the New Victory expansion project (2001). Total value of these projects in excess of $110 million.
1990-1991
Director of Construction
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn, NY
Created BAM's construction department and oversaw several capital projects, including Phase II of the Majestic (now Harvey) Theatre renovations (rigging, staging, support space, orchestra pit), Opera House rigging replacement, and the preliminary design of office and support space expansion (executed in 1995).
1986-1987
Project Manager, Majestic Theatre (renamed The Harvey) Renovation
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn, NY
Supervised design and construction for this award-winning renovation, undertaken for the presentation of Peter Brook's productions Mahabharata and Cherry Orchard.
