About FDA | Firm Profile

Fisher Dachs Associates is one of the world’s leading theatre planning and design consultants. Our mission is to help our clients plan and design vibrant, innovative, and technically superb performance spaces and cultural buildings for a wide range of uses. Collaboration is key to what we do.

Founded by legendary Broadway lighting designer Jules Fisher, and under the direction of Joshua Dachs, FDA has over 50 years’ experience in providing guidance to over 1,000 performing arts projects. These range from small community theatres to major cultural centers worldwide and includes theaters for drama, dance and musicals; concert halls; opera houses; multi-purpose touring venues; higher education and academic institutions; corporate auditoriums and event spaces; rock’n’roll clubs and popular music venues.

Our goal is to craft buildings that are easy to find your way around, are great places to visit, work, or perform in, and that function equally well for the artists who work in the space, the technical staff who keep it running smoothly, and the management team that has to operate it successfully. To do that we draw on our deep experience and listen closely to our clients, their staff, and their stakeholders.

Our staff includes people with backgrounds as set and lighting designers, musicians, architects, stage technicians, production managers, producers, and stage managers. Our work is kept fresh because we’re still actively involved in production, whether its Jules Fisher’s work on Broadway or our work designing unique performance environments for over 20 productions at the Park Avenue Armory.

Our firm’s clients include architects, cultural organizations, universities, government agencies, commercial investors, and property developers. We have completed projects in Canada, China, Columbia, Egypt, England, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, and the UAE, in addition to the USA.

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Jules Fisher, ASTC
Jules Fisher, ASTC

Principal

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Joshua Dachs, ASTC
Joshua Dachs, ASTC

Principal

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Joseph Mobilia, ASTC
Joseph Mobilia, ASTC

Principal

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Robert Campbell, ASTC
Robert Campbell, ASTC

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Peter Rosenbaum, ASTC
Peter Rosenbaum, ASTC

Principal

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Cathleen Bachman
Cathleen Bachman

Principal

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Laura Wagner
Laura Wagner

Senior Consultant

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Michelle Wun
Michelle Wun

Consultant

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Jeff McCrum
Jeff McCrum

Associate

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Aaron Bowersox
Aaron Bowersox

Consultant

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Scott Madaski
Scott Madaski

Associate

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Zachary Schmitt
Zachary Schmitt

Consultant

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Michael Wyant
Michael Wyant

Senior Consultant

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Alexa Antopol
Alexa Antopol

Chief Intelligence Officer

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Richard Hackman
Richard Hackman

Marketing Associate

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Bridget Jacinto-Jones
Bridget Jacinto-Jones

Dir. Administration & HR

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Arnold Ragins
Arnold Ragins

Billing Coordinator

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Fay Chang
Fay Chang

Accounting Coordinator

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Fisher Marantz Stone provides an understanding and sensitive approach to light as an integral architectural material which supports the idea of a space and the human activities within it. Since 1971, the firm has created effective, innovative, and economical lighting solutions for over 5,000 challenging projects around the world.

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