Members of the American Society of Theatre Consultants are professional theatre consultants who have demonstrated a range of capability and experience necessary to qualify for membership. As professionals, ASTC members have an individual and collective interest in providing unbiased, functional, and practical consulting and design services to owners, users, architects, and engineers of performance and assembly facilities. These interests are reflected in the objectives and programs of the ASTC.

ASTC MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA
Society membership is open only to individuals whose professional qualifications as a theatre consultant meet the following eligibility requirements.

ASTC Member:

1. Scope of Work: To be eligible, individuals must have consulting capabilities, as exemplified by direct participation in consulting work in the programming, planning, and equipping of performance facilities, assembly spaces, or studios. Generalist capability in all facility types is not required.
2. Professional Status: To be eligible, individuals must derive their principal income from work as theatre consultants to owners, architects and/or engineers for performance, assembly, or studio facilities, for a period of five years prior to application. Architects, Acoustical Consultants, and others who are not full-time professional theatre consultants as defined by ASTC are not eligible.
3. Professional Affiliations: Eligible individuals may be independent consultants or may be members of a professional consulting firm.
4. Experience: To be eligible, an individual must have acted as the consultant responsible for not less than five completed substantial projects. They must also have experience equivalent to at least five years of full time professional work as a theatre consultant.
5. Commercial Affiliations: To be eligible, individuals must not be owners, employees or commission agents of any firm that manufactures, sells, or installs equipment or that acts as a contractor for the construction of performance, assembly, or studio facilities.
6. The applicant has demonstrated professional practice consistent with the ASTC’s Code of Ethics.
7. The ASTC is open to members who live and work in North America.

Applicants must have two ASTC member sponsors to apply for membership. Questions regarding membership can be directed to the ASTC Membership Committee.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about membership can be found in this ASTC Membership Criteria and Application FAQs.

ASTC Associate Member:
An individual who applies for membership in the Society and meets all qualifications of the Bylaws except for the five years requirement and/or does not yet meet the requirement of having completed five projects as a theatre consultant.

There are three other classes of membership.

Fellows:
A small number of members may be elevated by their peers to Fellow level based on their long and significant service both to the Society and the Profession. A list of current Fellows is HERE.

Emeritus:
Members who are retired and no longer active consultants, or who are deceased.

Honorary:
When appropriate, the Society may name honorary members. These are individuals who have made significant contributions to the theory and/or practice of theatre consulting work or to the ASTC.