With 15 years of nationwide backstage experience as a technical director, stage manager and lighting designer, Alec Stoll has worked in spaces of every shape and size. He has consulted on academic, professional and community venues as well as studios for broadcast.

Alec was FDA’s project manager for the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, a $450 million complex in Miami, Florida housing a 2400-seat ballet opera house, a 2200-seat concert hall and a studio theatre that opened in late 2006. Currently, he is managing several other South Florida projects, including the new 1000-seat South Miami-Dade Cultural Center, the 800- seat Miramar Cultural Arts Park, and the renovation of the Overtown Lyric Theatre.

As FDA’s project manager for the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts renovation in Arizona, Alec worked closely with the Cultural Council and the Center for the Performing Arts (from May 2006 to the present). He currently is working on two major projects with the British architects Foster and Partners - the Zaryadye redevelopment project in Moscow (a 2000-seat philharmonic hall and a 2500-seat multipurpose hall as well as a smaller Variety Theatre) and “The Bow” in Calgary, Alberta, Canada which will house three drama theatres.

Among his projects have been the renovation of the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, and the Siam Opera Theatre in Bangkok, Thailand. Alec has led a number of feasibility and needs assessment studies for FDA including Western Stage in Salinas, CA; the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts in Arizona; the Coconut Grove Playhouse and the Van Wezel Center for the Performing Arts in Florida.

Higher Education projects Alec has completed include the Lou Rawls Center for the Performing Arts at Florida Memorial College, a new auditorium for Hialeah High School in Miami, a studio theatre for New Jersey City University and a new Arts and Humanities building for Howard Community College, Columbia, MD. Previously, Alec was Adjunct Professor of Theatre at Pace University’s Department of Theater and Fine Arts in NYC, and taught theater at St. Norbert College in Green Bay, WI. He still teaches now and again and recently served as a guest lecturer and critic at the University of Miami School of Architecture.

In his youth, he held Technical Director positions at the Berkshire Opera Company, Centennial Theater Festival, New England Conservatory of Music, Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center, St. Norbert College’s Walter and Webb Theaters and Pace University’s Schimmel Center for the Arts. He was also the technical director for touring productions of the “Nunsense” canon.

A 1996 graduate of Brandeis University, Waltham MA, Alec holds an MFA in Theater Production Management and a BFA in Technical Theatre from Emerson College in Boston MA (1993).

astoll@fda-online.com