The STA Team

Our team brings a variety of perspectives, skills and cultural insights from around the world to the benefit of our collective work. The studio where we collaborate on a wide range of projects emerged as the adaptive re-use of a group of 19th and early 20th century buildings. Located in Dobbs Ferry’s village center, it was once the site of a farmhouse and three barns, one of which later housed a blacksmith’s shop. In 1914, the buildings were transformed into the village’s first movie house, the Washington Theatre, where audiences enjoyed silent films. That theater, with the addition of a concrete block stage, morphed into the Dobbs Ferry Playhouse, where Ethel Barrymore performed onstage before a packed house. STA’s 1987 restoration/renovation is anchored by the theater’s proscenium, celebrating the building’s rich history.