CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS
SERVING CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS
The spark for ATOMIC started over thirty years ago with London-based production designer Tom McPhillips. He became known for creating innovative sets that travelled lightly, set up quickly and looked dramatic on stage.
We’ve grown to encompass a deep pool of world-class professionals. From drafting, to welding, to 3D animation, we create immersive environments for the world’s top bands and biggest brands. Our work now ships across the globe and we have home bases stretching from Los Angeles to Tokyo.
Our core philosophy has never changed. Our work travels lightly, sets up quickly and looks dramatic on stage. We strive to make your show day a success by seeing around corners, getting our hands dirty, collaborating and delivering with no surprises.
Our History
Click through the constellation points below to cruise through ATOMIC’s history.
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1984
Tom McPhillips begins painting backdrops and scenery for theater, opera and television productions, opening his own studio in 1976. Before long he branches out and begins designing for live shows and music videos by Culture Club, Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest and many more!
The 70's and 80's
Our Roots
Tom McPhillips begins painting backdrops and scenery for theater, opera and television productions, opening his own studio in 1976. Before long he branches out and begins designing for live shows and music videos by Culture Club, Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest and many more!
The 90's
Our Philosophy Catches On
Tom’s work is seen on tour and in the studio with some of rock n’ roll’s biggest artists: Michael Jackson, The Who and Paul McCartney. Even better, his designs become known in the industry for their ease of use, fast set-up, creative construction techniques and innovative materials.
1994
Atomic Is Born
Tom moves to the U.S., and launches a set construction shop to build his iconic designs. ATOMIC is born: “A Tom Mc” Phillips Design.
The Mid 90’s
Video Killed The Radio Star
As the video era takes off, ATOMIC begins providing design and construction for music videos, awards shows and televised concerts including hundreds of episodes of MTV Unplugged and A&E Live by Request.
The 00’s
Atomic Goes Corporate
Corporate marketers turn to ATOMIC for help creating pop-up stores, immersive brand environments and live experiences that engage their fans. Over time, Nike, Target and Victoria’s Secret join the ATOMIC client list, alongside Turner Television and CBS Networks.
2001
Atomic Rental is Born
ATOMIC launches a rental division and begins shipping creative, modular scenery and soft goods all over the world. Interchangeable products and endless combinations help designers make any event an ATOMIC event. Packs small, plays BIG is born! Rental Solutions changed its name to Modular Systems in late 2019.
2013
Production Accelerates
The ATOMIC production team grows and officially gets rolling producing top-notch events from some of the world’s biggest brands.
2014
ATOMIC Celebrates
ATOMIC celebrates 20 years in business!
Today
Here We Are!
We’ve come a long way… and with the help of our awesome employees, partners, clients and friends we look forward to doing what we love – for people we love – for many years to come!
Meet Our Team
1. What's your drink of choice?
Aaron Brubaker
Metal Shop Lead
1. Iced Tea
2. Flying
3. Shark
Aaron Rupp
Scenic Technician
Adam Curry
Assistant Project Manager
Alan Fackler
Tech Lead
1. IPAs
2. Teleporting
3. Cat
Alastair Peters
Paint Shop Lead
1. Russian Imperial Stouts
2. GOTTA GO FAST
3. Peacock mantis Shrimp
Alec Parson
Assistant Project Manager
1. Cold Smoke Scotch Ale by KettleHouse Brewing
2. Telekinesis
3. Paul Brunner
Alex Thomas
Power Technician
1. Dr Pepper on the Rocks
2. Flight
3. Wolf
Alix Reynolds
Account Manager
1. Sazerac
2. Teleportation
3. Raccoon
Ana Vallejo
Seamstress
1. AM: Earl Grey, PM: Gin & Tonic
2. Telekinesis
3. Giraffe
Andi Blady
Production Designer
1. Black tea with milk and honey
2. Always finding the best parking spots
3. ImpalaWant to Join Team Atomic?
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Andi Hill
Office Manager
1. Champagne & Chambord
2. Mind Reading
3. Mama Bear
Andres Guiterrez
Assistant Designer
Andy Good
Scenic Road Tech
1. Yards IPA
2. Emotional Manipulation
3. Alex Thomas
Ben Huder
Operations Coordinator
1. Coffee in the morning, Augustiner at night
2. Spread Knowledge
3. ALF
Bill Beach
Technology Manager
1. Something dark; coffee or beer
2. Flying
3. R.O.U.S. (Rodent of Unusual Size)
Brandon “Sally” Cardenas
Account Manager
1. Beer and Coffee
2. Invulnerability
3. Moose2. What power does your alter-ego super hero have?
Brandon Hutchinson
Metal Fabricator
Brandon Putt
Accounting Administrator
1. Tito's with lime
2. Quantum Tunneling - The ability to walk through walls
3. Jaguar
Brandon Scholtes
Metal Fabricator
Breann Davis
Assistant Project Manager
1. Rum and Coke or Mojito
2. Magic Wielding (like the Red Witch from X-Men
3. A lion.. with a squirrel's attention span
Brendan Leahy
Assistant Project Manager, Lead
1. Frangelico
2. To pull infinite all-nighters
3. Sabertooth Tiger
Brendan O'Donnell
Senior Account Manager
1. Shirley Temple
2. Teleporting
3. Pegasus
Brian Shaughnessy
Senior Account Manager
1. Crystal Pepsi with Gummiberry juice
2. To get people to forgive non super hero Brian
3. Ghost of a half Lab half German Shepard
Brian Viera
3D Printer Operator
1. Natty Light
2. Telekinesis
3. Shark!
Brie Rogers
Designer
1. Hot or hard cider
2. Control of the elements
3. Black Barn Owl3. If you were an animal, what would you be?
Britt Gehris
Director of Operations
1. Sweet Tea
2. Flying (or Strength or Fire)
3. Wolf, a white one
Chad Thomas
Scenic Fabrication Manager
1. Thai Iced Tea
2. Being in multiple places at once
3. Elk
Charlie Cook
Production Designer
1. IPA Beer
2. Flying
3. Lion
Chloe Rich
Vice President of Brand Strategy
1. Black Tea
2. Teleporting
3. Koala
Christy Slothower
Modular Systems Warehouse Lead
1. Coffee
2. Teleportation
3. Lion
Colin Nixdorf
Project Manager
1. Jack and Coke
2. Teleportation
3. Wolf
Conway Allison
Director of Product Innovation
1. Beer
2. Healing
3. Griffin
Cori Fisher
Seamstress
1. Strawberry Milkshake
2. Regeneration and Healing
3. Rabbit
Dan Fick
Modular Systems Warehouse Manager - LititzCreative professionals serving creative professionals.
Dan LaFauci
Director of HR
1. Captain & Coke
2. A “reset” belly button – A Mulligan For Life
3. Molehawk - a mole with a Mohawk
Dan Sims
Metal Fabricator
1. Jameson and ginger ale
3. Deer
Dan Wells
Scenic Technician
Dana Cardenas
Marketing Intern
1. Iced Coffee or Gin Fizz
2. Super strength
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Daniel McPhillips
President
1. Well-balanced English Ale
2. Teleporting
3. Hammer head shark, mainly because they are bad ass
Daniel Shovlin
Production Manager
1. Russian River Supplication
2. The ability to pause time
3. Fennec Fox
Dave Remaley
Chief Financial Officer
1. Stella Artois
2. Flying
3. Dog
Dee Yeaworth
Seamstress
1. Water, Wine, Coffee
2. Heal the sick in mind, body and spirit
3. Lioness
Doug Frawley
Account Manager
1. Coffee- Hot, Iced, or Intravenous
2. Any superpower!
3. A bear - quiet, not harmful, but protective of its clan if threatened
Doug Krane
Director of Account Management
1. Guinness and any Islay
2. Unlimited patience
3. A rescued Pit Bull1. What's your drink of choice?
Ed Byrne
CNC Lead
1. Sunkist
2. Incredible 'telepathetic' abilities
3. Lion
Emily Mathias
Seamstress
1. Caribou Lou
2. Flying
3. A tiger
Erin Edwards
Director of Project Management
Ethan Martin
Design Manager
1. A good beer and/or coffee
2. Telekinesis
3. Sloth
Evan Rapp
Scenic Artist
1. Smuttynose IPA
2. Time travel
3. Grizzly bear
Felix Nuyten
Director, Modular Systems Europe
1. Lots of water keeps me going, beer's good too
2. Power in numbers, alter ego with a versatile skill set
3. Papa Bear1. What's your drink of choice?
Gary Glass
Account Manager
1. Coffee
2. Ability to stop time
3. Hagrid
Greg Marty
Carpenter
Hellena Schiavo
Account Manager
Ian Gantz
Logistics Lead
1. Water or Stout
2. Regenerative Healing
3. The Wolf
Isabelle Gulick
Designer
1. Tito's Vodka and soda with a squeeze of lime
2. The ability to transform into any animal
3. Chimera
Jack Burkholder
Modular Systems Manufacturing Lead
1. Hot Cocoa
2. Time Manipulation
3. Grizzly Bear
Jacob Walton
Drafter/Detailer
1. AM:Cold Brew Coffee PM:Single Malt Scotch
2. Unlimited Memory Retention
3. Flying Squirrel
Jaden Warfel
Metal Fabricator
Jake Haley
Scenic Road Tech
1. Guinness Harp Black & Tan
2. Ability to associate anything with a movie quote or song lyric
3. Eagle
James Rogers
Project Manager
1. Hefeweizen
2. Elemental Transmutation
3. Gray WolfWant to Join Team Atomic?
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Jared Forsythe
Scenic Road Tech
1. Guinness
2. Crazy strength (like The Hulk)
3. Ox
Jason Gushue
Metal Fabricator
Jason Serfecz
Graphics Manager
1. A-Treat Big Blue
2. Bulletproof
3. Greyhound
Javier Santiago
Modular Systems Associate
Jay Caneal
Soft Goods Lead
1. Kombucha
2. Immortality
3. The Maned Wolf
Jeremy Yunkin
Scenic Road Tech
1. Ballast Sculpin IPA
2. Going Super Saiyan
3. Optimus Prime2. What power does your alter-ego super hero have?
Joe Liebl
Carpenter
1. Yuengling Lager
2. Reading minds
3. Falcon
Joe McMonagle
Chief Business Development Officer
1. Gueuze
2. The power to resist pizza
3. Great Blue Heron
Joel Kibler
Wood Shop Lead
John Villella
General Manager
1. Black Coffee by day, Jack & Coke by night
2. Precognition
3. Spider Monkey
Kaley Cook
Business Paralegal
1. Mimosa
2. Animal Communicator
3. Whale - Strong communicators, exhibit peaceful strength and form strong bonds with others
Kate Crown
Assistant Project Manager
Keith Reilly
Project Manager
1. Bailey's (Creamy)
2. Predicting the future
3. A Puppy Bear
Kevin Tucker
Payroll Administrator
1. Ecto Cooler
2.The legacy of Johnny Lawrence and Cobra Kai Dojo
3. The majestic Sea Pig
Kevin Valudes
Assistant Project Manager
1. Water
2. Time manipulation
3. Tiger3. If you were an animal, what would you be?
Kris Groff
Truck Driver
1. Beer, I always look for something I've never had before.
2. Super strength
3. Eagle
Krista Lefever
Accounts Receivable Administrator
1. Iced Green Tea, Coffee, Water
2. Healing
3. Mama Bear
Kristi Eaton
Office Manager, NY
1. Pappy Van Winkle, neat
2. The power to turn anything into a cheeseburger
3. A hummingbird
Kurt Jacobus
Logistics Coordinator
1. STRONG Black Coffee
2. Empathetic Weather Manipulation
3. Goat
Laura Kiskaddon
Scenic Technician
1. Whiskey Ginger
2. Flying
3. Fairy
Laurel Shaheen
Employee Experience Manager- Belgium Wit
2. Teleportation
3. Cat
- Belgium Wit
Lauren Brignone
Senior Producer
1. Iced coffee OR jalapeño margarita
2. Excellent memory
3. Bottlenosed dolphin
Lisa McDaniel
Tech Coordinator
1. Vinho verde
2. The power to rid people of hate, anger, fear and suffering
3. Alpaca
Lisa Miller
Logistics Coordinator
1. Water! But I love a good Sex On The Beach too
2. The ability to eliminate pain
3. DolphinCreative professionals serving creative professionals.
Lisa Molloy
Senior Seamstress
1. Seattle's Best Iced Coffee
2. Healing
3. Discoppopotamus
Lydia Henry
Chief Operating Officer
1. Lemonade
2. To always know the right thing to say
3. An ant: they move mountains and value community
Mac Evarts
Account Manager
Mara Rooney
Scenic Artist
1. Hot Chocolate
2. Shape Shifting
3. Hippocampus
Marc Frymyer
Logistics Lead
1. Water or Victor Brewing Co. beer
2. Is being a wizard a superpower? Because that would be AWESOME!
3. An otter
Mark Bartlett
Project Coordinator
1. Hoegaarden or Ommegang
2. Being able to warp reality and time
3. Wolf
Mark Watson
Modular Systems Associate
Mason Snyder
Logistics Coordinator
1. Water
2.Ability to fly
3. Tortoise
Matt Hill
Scenic Technician
1. A good, cold beer
2. Invisibility
3. Shark
Matthew Anastasio
Project Manager
1. Beer
2. Flying
3. Bearmanpig1. What's your drink of choice?
Meredith Beiler
Account Manager
1. Champagne cocktails. Any and all
2. Time manipulation. Including the ability to visit alternate timelines
3. A fraggle
Michael Chico
Producer
1. Vodka Soda with a splash of Cranberry, High Life, or Iced Tea
2. Approximate Knowledge of Many Things
3. Narwhal
Michael Holiday
Scenic Technician
Michael Joseph
Procurement & Logistics Manager
Mike Fasig
Graphics Technician
1. AM- coffee, PM- Murphy's Irish Stout or Guinness
2. Flying: not for the normal reasons, I'm lazy, so I'd just kinda hover and cut out the use of my legs all together
Mike Fegely
Account Manager
1. Black Coffee/Fresh Beer
2. An “Ironman” suit that dispenses beer instead of shooting lasers
3. A centaur (minus the horse part)1. What's your drink of choice?
Mike Lavelle
Scenic Floor Manager
1. Knob Creek & Coke on the rock's
2. Seven Different Kinds of Smoke!
3. Phoenix or Kung Fu Panda
Mike Rhoads
Production Designer
1.Basil Hayden Dark Rye
2. Time travel (but I’ll settle for Master of Time Management)
3. A Westie
Nate Schreffler
Manufacturing Manager
1. Duh, BEER.
2. Teleporting would be pretty sweet
3. Dog
Nelson Loeb
Drafter/Detailer
1. Raspberry Iced Tea
2. Flight
3. The Bald Eagle
Nick Artale
Product Designer
1. Berry Fruit Smoothie
2. Teleportation
3. Eagle
Nick Cyr
Power Lead
Nick Vogelpohl
Project Manager
1. Delirium
2. Turning into metal for super strength and invulnerability
3. Gorilla
Pat Bonner
Vice President, Production and Design
1. Coke Zero and coffee
2. Telekinesis
3. A family dogWant to Join Team Atomic?
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Paxton Bigham
Director of Sales
1. A damn fine cup of coffee
2. Spidey Sense
3. Ted Nugent
Rachel Finn
Senior Account Manager
1. My Secret Recipe: Fresh Strawberry Lemon Drop Martini
2. Flying
3. A dolphin at a fantastic Aquarium
Rachel Wenger
Marketing Content Strategist
1. Sweet tea
2. Replication
3. Cat
Rae Powell
Account Manager
1. A whiskey based cocktail
2. Learning through osmosis
3. The Beaver
Rob Barber
Vice President, Modular Systems and R&D
1. Life
2. Time Travel
3. Bingo of the Banana Splits2. What power does your alter-ego super hero have?
Sarah Moore
Modular Systems Warehouse Lead
1. Coffee
2. Flying, then I wouldn't have to worry about traffic!
3. Dolphin, playful spirit and love to swim.
Sarah Shirk
Soft Goods R&D Lead
1. Coffee
2. I can fly!
3. Wolf
Scott Delap
CNC Programmer
Stephen Kaelin
Project Manager
1. Miller High Life and a shot of Bushmills
2. The ability to speak, read and write any language in the Universe
3. A panther
Tate Warfel
Metal Fabricator
1. Mountain Dew, but coffee is a close second
2. Flying, I like heights.
3. Dog
Taylor Jurell
Designer
1. Orange juice
2. The power to steal other superhero's powers and use them as my own
3. Kangaroo
Tia Lavelle
Controller
1. A skinny vanilla latte
2. Mind reading
3. An Otter. Otters are petite, engaging creatures overflowing with positive energy
Tiffany Dodson
Director of Marketing
1. All kinds of coffee
2. Teleporting
3. Cat3. If you were an animal, what would you be?
Tom McPhillips
Chairman, CCO
1. Flying Dog Raging Bitch Belgian style IPA on cask
2. To cure every known disease
3. A Blue Whale
Trevor Collins
Assistant Project Manager
1. A South Side
2. Psychokinesis
3. A dog
Tricia Fackler
Production Business Manager
1. Grey Goose Dirty Martini
2. To instill a supreme sense of calm
3. A Canadian Goose, lots of travel, good friends, always comes home
Trina Rehnberg
Accounts Payable Administrator
1. Ice water with lemon
2. Super strength
3. A honey badger because the honey badger don't care
Tristin Weaver
Modular Systems Associate
Zach Kolodziejski
Graphics Technician
1. Narragansett
2. Interdimensional Travel
3. Buzzard
Zak Keller
Project Manager
1. Things containing Cascade and/or Chinook Hops
2. Time control
3. A Muppet
