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Schuler & Shook

's Dallas-Ft. Worth office has been selected as theatre consultant for the Asheville Performing Arts Center in North Carolina, the Madera County Cultural Center in California, and the Addison Town Center in Texas.

Chris Curran has been added to the sales team at TMB UK. He has an extensive background in professional lighting and rental operations in Australia, with four years as operations manager for Chameleon Touring Systems, and two years as rental manager for Graftons Lighting.

Belgrade-based Sky Music is the new Martin Professional distributor in Yugoslavia. Sky Music, headed by president and CEO Milenko Skaric, will be responsible for Martin, Mach, and Jem products in Serbia and Montenegro.

Phil Hall has joined the dimming and controls department of 16500, a lighting representation company in the San Francisco Bay area. Hall has worked on large dimming and control projects for the San Francisco Opera House, the San Jose Repertory Theatre, and San Francisco City Hall. He serves on the board of directors for the SF chapter of the IES, is a former award winner of the American Society of Lighting Directors, and contributed lighting design to many films, Emmy Award-winning TV shows, and has done event lighting for the Pope, the Queen of England, four US presidents, and the 50th anniversary celebration of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, prior to focusing on the architectural field. Hall can be reached at 510-208-5005 ext. 3030, or e-mail [email protected].

Showtime Lighting has moved to a new 20,000-sq.-ft. (1,800 sq. m) facility at 3640 Vanness Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5R 5T8, Canada, phone: 604-434-6400, fax: 604-434-6479, e-mail: [email protected].

Resnicow Schroeder, cultural communications and strategic planning firm for non-profit arts institutions and government agencies, has a new address: 1995 Broadway, 11th floor, New York, NY 10023. Phone and fax numbers remain the same, at 212-595-0515 and 212-671-5150, respectively, and all direct-dial numbers remain the same.