AUERBACH POLLOCK FRIEDLANDER


		PAUL GARRITY Principal As Auerbach Pollock Friedlander’s principal audio-video and multimedia systems specialist, Paul Garrity brings over thirty years of international consulting experience and theatrical sound design credits to the firm. His projects range from modest sound systems for community college theatres to multi-million dollar sound, video and production systems. Mr. Garrity has designed systems for theatres, casino/hotel showrooms, conference centers, sports arenas, planetariums, virtual reality environments and other special performance venues. His expertise encompasses sound reinforcement systems, video projection and distribution, production communication and paging, infrared assistive-listening, simultaneous interpretation, show control, data distribution and recording and broadcast systems design and infrastructure. Mr. Garrity’s production experience includes more than twenty years of theatrical sound design and engineering credits, working with theatre companies and symphony orchestras in the U.S. and Europe. He was honored as the Entertainment Technology/LDI Sound Designer of the Year in 2004. Prior to joining Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, Mr. Garrity operated New York City based Paul Garrity and Associates, AV and production systems design consultants and served as Director of Sound and Communications Consulting Services at Artec Consultants Inc. SELECTED PROJECT EXPERIENCE Albuquerque Convention Center, Kiva Auditorium, Albuquerque, New Mexico Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta, Georgia Carnegie Hall, Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall, New York, New York Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Hayden Planetarium, Rose Center for Earth and Space, Museum of Natural History, New York, New York Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, Maryland MGM City Center, Viva ELVIS™ Cirque du Soleil Theatre, Las Vegas, Nevada MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, KÀ™ for Cirque du Soleil, Las Vegas, Nevada MGM Mirage, Cirque du Soleil LOVE™ Theatre, Las Vegas, Nevada New York New York Hotel and Casino, Zumanity: Another Side of Cirque du Soleil, Las Vegas, Nevada Philadelphia Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Purdue University, Elliott Hall and Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts, West Lafayette, Indiana Symphony Center, Chicago, Illinois Symphony Space, New York, New York The Historic Salt Lake Tabernacle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah The Venetian Macau, ZAIA™ for Cirque du Soleil, Macau, China The Venetian Orient, Ltd, Multi-purpose Theatre, Cotai Headliner Theatre and Presentation Theatre, Macau, China University of California, Santa Barbara, California Nanosystems Institute, Santa Barbara, California University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio University of Maryland, Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts, College Park, Maryland War Memorial Auditorium, Trenton, New Jersey EDUCATION B.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University, Drama Production/Theatre Engineering PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Audio Engineering Society United States Institute for Theatre Technology PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Yale University School of Drama, Former Instructor of Electro-Acoustics Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Former Instructor of Sound Design Numerous lectures and technical papers Former monthly columnist, Sound Video and Communications magazine AWARD Sound Designer of the Year, Entertainment Technology Show (LDI), 2004