Dialogue
As we start the new year, we are pleased to recount the happenings in 2007.
We expanded our offices and brought in three more talents for a total staff of seven:
Scenic Designer and Production Manager Jedd de Lucia joined us from Marin Theatre Company to make the jump into consulting.
Scott Krenzke joined us after graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree in Acoustical Engineering and Theatre Design and Technology from Purdue University to assist in AV Services.
Our business matters are now managed by Scott Rasmussen, who was previously with another design firm for ten years in San Francisco.
Looking ahead in this regard we’ve got another position available:  We’re looking for a project manager with a minimum 3-10 years of theatre consulting or related experience. Contact info@shalleck.com for more details.
Project completions for the year include the new studio theatre and system improvements at the recently renamed Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska, substantial improvements to the theatre and music facilities at American River College, and a new 450 seat theatre and studio at Irvine Valley College. We finished improvements to Kingsbury Hall at University of Utah, Shasta College in Redding, CA and The Hult Center in Eugene, OR. Construction nears completion at Mt. Pleasant High School and at the Bob Boldrick Theatre in Carson City. Construction has started at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the University of Oregon Miller Theatre, renovations to the Oakland Fox Theatre, the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge, CO, the Ocotillo Theatre in Artesia, NM, and at De Anza, Modesto Jr., Victor Valley, and Butte Colleges. Bidding/Construction is just about to start at the three theatre complex at Folsom Lake College, the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, Pierce College in Puyallup, WA, a Cabaret for CA Musical Theatre in Sacramento, JPOP Cinema in San Francisco’s Japan Town and at American Canyon HS.
We have submitted construction documents to the DSA for the Performing Arts Center at the City College of San Francisco. For this project we joined in collaboration with Theatre Projects Consultants as part of the team headed by LMN Architects, with Tom Eliot Fisch architects and Jaffe Holden Acoustics.
Progress continues in design for the 1,800 seat Shanghai Cultural Square theatre with Studios Architects and Team 7, in an architecturally significant building by Beyer Blinder Belle.
Among the wave of master planning and feasibility studies, we have been working on the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts (formerly the Luther Burbank Center) in Santa Rosa, CA; the city of Glenwood Springs, CO, the Hollywood Theatre and Lewis & Clark College, both in Portland, OR, the Willamette University theatre department, at the University of Idaho Event Center and for a significant performing arts center and educational initiative within the new development at the Railyards in Sacramento called the CA Academy of the Arts.
For 2008 we are pleased to be getting into design work for the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the Magnes Museum in Berkeley, with a major entertainment company, and at the Columbia Theatre in Longview, WA. Adam returns to Nanaimo, BC for a phase II studio at the Port Theatre.
Design work continues on a major music venue in CO. Details to follow when it’s made public.
Our AV Services are booming: besides work on many of our theatres, we’ve done or are doing work for Network Appliance, King School of Law at UC Davis, Fairfield Arts Center, Solano College, and Mayfair Community Center, among others.