Winners for the Stage Management Association Awards 2026, recognising excellence in stage management, have been revealed.
Now in their 38th year, the awards ceremony was hosted at the Alexandra Palace in London as part of the ABTT Theatre Show on 3rd June.
Andy Rowley, SMA executive director, said: “Once again our judges have been challenged by the extraordinary achievements reported by nominators across the industry. In the end, the final winners were selected with the finest margins from their peers."
He added: "Stage Management Association is proud to once again be able to celebrate the extraordinary achievements and standards of excellence that our members and their colleagues have demonstrated in superb, world-class shows made and performed to the delight of audiences across the UK in 2025-26.”
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Kali Shih, assistant stage manager placement on Brigadoon at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London
Mother Goose and The Manningtree Witches at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester
The team included company stage manager Rebecca Samuels, deputy stage managers Judith Volk and Esther Malkinson and assistant stage managers Lucy Quinton, Gillian McGrath, and Lizzie Hayward
Sally Inch, deputy stage manager on The Greatest Showman at the Bristol Hippodrome
Theatre Royal Brighton
Johanna Adams Farley, senior stage manager Royal Ballet and Opera
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