About Us
About Us
Transforming Your Vision into Reality, Since 1979
Whether you’re staging a theatre production, delivering a live event, broadcasting to audiences, or designing an immersive architectural space, you need a technical partner who understands the complexity of your project.
At Stage Electrics, we help you turn creative concepts into reality. For over 45 years, we’ve worked with venues, production teams, and technical directors to provide cutting-edge lighting, sound, video, rigging, and staging solutions that set the standard for quality and innovation.
From theatres and live productions to broadcast studios, education spaces, and architectural installations, we don’t just supply equipment—we design tailored solutions, deliver expert installation, and provide ongoing support to ensure your production runs smoothly, now and in the future.
Stage Electrics
Company History
Stage Electrics was founded in 1979 by David Whitehead and Maurice Marshal, MBE, driven by a passion for lighting and a commitment to prioritising customer service. Today, our dedication remains as strong as ever, expanding beyond lighting to include audio, video, staging, and rigging. We believe that David and Maurice would still recognise our unwavering commitment to delivering industry-leading customer outcomes.
In 2019, we refined our focus by selling SLX, our hire and events division.
Today, our UK-based team of industry specialists works with a broad range of clients, both nationally and internationally. Our customers range from small amateur groups to large multinational corporations and industry professionals across theatre, live events, education, and broadcast, as well as themed attractions, conference centres, schools, and more. Over the past 40 years, the technology may have changed, but our commitment to delivering industry-leading standards hasn’t.
Stage Electrics is part of Stage Electrics Group, which includes Willow Communications, Northern Light and Just Rigging & Inspections Scotland Ltd.
About Us
Our Board
Back Row (L to R)
Andy Preece – Non-Executive Director
Martin Farmer – Non-Executive Director
Trevor Smallwood – Non-Executive Director
William Rogers – Chairman
John Laycock – Non-Executive Director
Front Row (L to R)
Nathan Athay – Finance Director
Dan Aldridge – Commercial Director
Dave Coull – Group Chief Executive Officer
Adam Blaxill – Operations Director
We Make Performance Possible
Our Core Values
We’re as passionate about what we do today as we were on the first day we opened. Renowned for the quality of our work, we owe this accolade to our extraordinary team and the way in which they live our core values. A set of guiding principles drive our business. Our core values shape how we act and behave every day.
01.
Professional
We strive to deliver high standards in the work we do and the way we behave.
02.
Considerate
We are considerate to ourselves, our colleagues, our customers, our business partners, our company objectives, and our planet.
03.
Honest
We act with integrity and honesty in the way we conduct ourselves – even when it is tough.
04.
Collaborative
We are one team, many people with differing strengths. We collaborate with positive intent and work together openly to reach our full potential.
05.
Innovative
We seek ideas that improve our effectiveness and secure our future – times change and so must we.
Environment
Our Carbon Reduction Plan
We’re committed to at least halving our measured science-based carbon emissions by 2030 and becoming Net Zero by 2050.
Our Carbon Reduction Plan calculates many of the Green House Gas emissions emitted by our business’s operations, our commitment to reducing those emissions and a plan for achieving the reductions outlined within the plan. You can read our Carbon Reduction Plan here.