About Our Team.
4 key team members. Over 200 years of collective experience. Based in Seattle, Washington.
Serving the Northwest region.
Systems Integration Team
Max Pagel
Vice President of Operations
With 10 years of rigging experience, Max Pagel is PNTA’s operations manager and has worked with PNTA in various capacities since 2011. Max’s extensive hands-on experience makes him a valuable voice in the early creative stages of how to approach a rigging challenge and laying out different potential solutions to the unique challenges that each job presents.
Karl Triebs (He/Him/His)
Technical Onsite Specialist
Karl is PNTA’s creative technical problem-solver in chief. A graduate of Washington State University with a BA in Theatre, Karl has accumulated nearly 40 years’ experience in stage lighting and theatrical lighting control systems. Having worked as a Master Electrician at several local Seattle theatres (including Empty Space Theatre) before joining PNTA full-time, Karl’s hands-on experience with theatre technology over the decades provides him with a solid grounding with which he can solve problems with almost any theatrical system. Whether helping to keep an ancient Strand dimming system functioning or commissioning a new ETC Unison Paradigm Control System, fabricating unique rigging solutions for unconventional spaces, or integrating new lighting and audio equipment into existing systems, Karl’s technical wizardry in unmatched in the Pacific Northwest.
Shannon Saunders (She/Her/Hers)
Senior Project Manager of Drape Shop
Shannon Saunders is the senior Drape department project manager with 6+ years of experience building, designing and rigging draperies and has worked with PNTA for 10 years. Shannon designs the rigging and the softgoods for drape installations. She manages the drape manufacturing process as well to ensue PNTA’s high standards are maintained.
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