Jo Manning

Charcoalblue

Charcoalblue is the world's leading multi-national theatre, acoustic, and digital consultancy. Founded in 2004, we have 120+ team members in London, Bristol, Glasgow, New York, Chicago, Melbourne, Seattle, Portland Oregon, Dallas, San Diego, and the Bay Area of California. We work in a distributed way across the globe. Our theatre consultants and acousticians provide guidance and design for a broad range of buildings and events, including theatre, live performance, music, culture, education, workplaces, entertainment, and sport, striving to be the first and best choice for architects and clients who are designing new spaces or refurbishing existing ones. Our unique collaborative approach and relentless attention to detail on theatre consultancy, acoustics and digital design has won us awards & ecstatic reviews from the theatrical and architectural press. We are grounded in theatre practice and performance, and our team are driven by a passion for all types of performing arts projects, big or small, new-build or refurbishment. Charcoalblue Experience (CBX) is a dedicated business unit within the Charcoalblue group, applying expertise gained from working with globally renowned cultural organizations to the workplace, sports, exhibition and events markets. Working with several leading companies, the CBX team works with any business looking to create spaces for collaboration and storytelling that wants to deliver an enhanced experience for staff, visitors, guests and spectators. Projects include hybrid workplaces, one-off event spaces, sports facilities, broadcast studios, conference centres and ecosystems across entire buildings and campuses. Our CBX team includes specialist Project Managers, Design Managers, Research & Development (R&D) consultants, technical drawing & standards Consultants, Producers, and Administrators and they often work closely with single clients and are fully embedded in their workflows & teams. https://www.cbx.charcoalblue.com/