Joshua Dachs's Email & Phone

Joshua Dachs Principal Joshua Dachs is recognized as one of the world's leading theatre consultants. Trained as an architect and theatrical lighting designer, he directs FDA's consulting practice and provides planning, programming and design leadership. In over 25 years of practice he has helped plan and design hundreds of successful projects. In early phases he focuses his work on helping clients conceptualize and plan their projects, and during the design phase focuses on room shaping, seating layouts and sightlines, backstage layouts and overall spatial organization. He has worked with many of America's leading drama companies on projects such as the new Mead Center for American Theater for Arena Stage, San Diego Old Globe's recently-opened Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, and the new Guthrie on the River in Minneapolis. As a principal consultant to Lincoln Center, Josh has been involved in the recent renovation of Alice Tully Hall and the expansion of the Juilliard School. He designed the acclaimed temporary stage installation for the Mostly Mozart Festival in Avery Fisher Hall that has been used annually each August since 2005. Other recent projects include Toronto's new Four Seasons Center opera house, the home of the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet of Canada; Schermerhorn Symphony Center concert hall in Nashville; the Harman Center, a new theater for the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington DC; and the innovative Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. He continues to work with the Joyce Theatre on planning for the International Dance Center at the World Trade Center site, as well as the new Mariinsky Opera House in St. Petersburg, the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio, the Smith Center now under construction in Las Vegas, the Cantos National Music Centre in Calgary, and the Montreal Symphony Center. Among the other projects completed under his leadership are the flexible REDCAT Theatre at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, CA, the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston, TX, the Second Stage Theatre in New York City, a new opera house in Daegu, South Korea, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, the acclaimed Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, TX, and renovations to Radio City Music Hall, the New Victory Theatre, and the Joyce Theatre in New York City. A graduate of the High School of Music and Art in New York who originally studied the violin, he holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University. Josh has led a team of experts teaching a professional development course on theatre design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has been a guest critic at SCI-Arc and the UCLA School of Architecture. He is a member of the American Society of Theatre Consultants (ASTC) and ISPA. Josh's wife, Ako, is a stage and film actress. jdachs AT fda-online.com