Chris's Projects Experience

Chris Darland is a Principal Consultant and Project Manager in the Theatre Planning department at Artec. His many responsibilities include Programming, Conceptual Design, Space Planning, Costing, and Feasibility Study work, as well as Performance Equipment Systems design.

Chris has had an eclectic career as a theatre professional, having worked as a technical director, production manager, scene shop foreman, stagehand, rigger, welder, machinist, and carpenter for a wide range of organizations, including LORT theatres, film and theatre production companies, children's theatres, Broadway scene shops, and summer-stock companies. Jobs have taken him from his native Massachusetts to live and work in such cities as Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, New Haven, and Shepperton / London, UK.

His experience has not been limited to technical theater. Chris has also worked as a professional actor, fight captain, stage combat choreographer, and weapons-smith (his Master's thesis, Swords for the Stage, is a manual for the purchase, maintenance, and repair of combat-grade swords for the stage). He briefly worked for Companie Scaramouche, a Boston-based fight choreography company he helped to form. He earned certification as an actor/combatant, in 1987 and 1993, from the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD).

Chris is a member of the American Society of Theatre Consultants (ASTC). He has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Technical Design and Production from the Yale School of Drama, Yale University, and he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was awarded the Chancellor's Talent Award in his senior year.

	Mr. Darland's projects experience involves the following:
		Auditorium de Dijon, Dijon, France
		The Bartók National Concert Hall, Palace of Arts, Budapest, Hungary
		Caldwell Hall, Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, USA
		Chapel on Fir Hill, Akron, Ohio, USA
		Concert Hall, The Icelandic National Conference and Concert Centre, Reykjavík, Iceland
		Four Rivers Performing Arts Center, Paducah, Kentucky, USA      Main Stage      River Room
		Frederick P. Rose Hall, New York, New York, USA      The Allen Room      Rose Theater
		Living Arts Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada      Hammerson Hall      Royal Bank Theatre
		Lucent Technologies Center for Arts Education, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA
		Sang Nam Hall, LG Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
		Segerstrom Concert Hall, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, California, USA
		Sibelius Hall, Congress and Concert Centre, Lahti, Finland
		Skirball Theater, Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University, New York, USA
		Université Laval School of Music, Québec City, Québec, Canada
		Yuxi Performing Arts Center, Yuxi City, Yunnan, China (PRC)