Fred Gallo

President, Scenic

As President of PRG’s scenic services division, Fred provides overall direction to PRG’s scenic operations and serves as the primary client contact for scenic support in the theatre market. Through Fred’s efforts, PRG has become the world’s leading supplier of scenery for theatrical productions.

Fred co-founded PRG and its scenic services subsidiary, Scenic Technologies, together with Jere Harris, PRG’s chairman. He grew up in a well known family of Broadway stagehands and began building scenery at the age of 10. After completing a degree in architectural engineering, Fred served as a technical manager on many Broadway shows. He also worked as a shop craftsman for many major films shot in New York, including All That Jazz, King Kong, Moscow on the Hudson, Fame, The Money Pit, The World According to Garp, Sophie’s Choice and many films by Woody Allen.

After co-founding Scenic Technologies, Fred supervised and provided engineering design for countless scenic projects as well as helped to develop Stage Command^®, the company’s patented scenic automation system. Over the past 25 years, Fred has been associated with such productions as The Producers, Wicked, Little Shop of Horrors, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Beauty and the Beast, The Who’s Tommy, Passion, An Inspector Calls, Twelfth Night, Big, Victor Victoria, Big Deal, Fosse, Sweet Charity, Clams on a Half Shell, Pygmalion, On the Town, and literally dozens of other productions… not forgetting, of course, Moose Murders.

Under Fred’s direction, Stage Command soon revolutionized the way scenic effects are delivered in live performances, automating the scenic elements in such ground breaking productions as The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, and Beauty and the Beast.

In Las Vegas, Fred was instrumental in the engineering design and development of the EFX show at the MGM Grand, the Conservatory at the Bellagio, the Masquerade in the Sky at the Rio, and Star Trek: The Experience at the Hilton. In the themed attraction market, Fred oversaw the engineering and fabrication of the Twister and Dr. Seuss attractions at Universal Studios in Orlando and Terminator 2 in 3D at Universal’s parks in Orlando, Los Angeles and Japan.

Fred holds two patents for theatrical equipment he designed and frequently serves as a consultant on the engineering of theatrical rigging systems for theatres worldwide. Over the past 12 years, he has designed the renovation of over 100 theatres to enable them to present large and technically sophisticated productions such as The Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon.