Elynmarie Kazle is a stage manager, director and fundraiser.  She’s designed stage management mentoring projects for a number of US institutions. Currently, Production Mgr, Akron School for the Arts. Recent gigs include Match Girl/Columbus Dance Theatre and the Regional Emmy Awards..  Past Board Chair SMA/US. Previous credits include: BAM, Deaf West, Cleveland Play House, LA Classical Ballet, Opera Columbus, San Diego Opera and international tours. After 9 years on the AEA West Coast SM Committee and three years at SDC, she was one of the youngest USITT Fellows inducted. Member of the National Theater Conference and Special Projects VP for Ohio Valley USITT, her BFA is from University of Minnesota, Duluth; MFA from Ohio University. She’s a leader for Scouting USA, Order of the Arrow and the proud mom of an Eagle Scout.

Bill Hare is retired from a long career in Stage and Production Management in nearly every kind of public presentation – on and off Broadway, touring,  and regional theater; New York and regional opera and dance, major and minor industrials, music  festivals, trade shows, international press  conferences, and in one case a Papal Mass. He was a founding committee chair of the SMA and in  recent years served on it’s Board. He is very pleased to be joining his esteemed colleagues in the Stage Managers’ Association Foundation.

Rich Costabile, Bronx-born, has been a HS math teacher, IBM computer programmer/systems  analyst, actor, stage manager and teacher of stage management. His career has encompassed 7  Broadway productions plus numerous off-  Broadway, regional, tours, opera, events large and small, and even the circus. He cherishes the  memory of his 17-year association with Hal  Holbrook’s legendary Mark Twain Tonight! The SMA elected Rich to serve as Chair of the Board for 6  one-year terms. His travels, for work and for  pleasure, have taken him to all 50 states as well as  to numerous countries around the world. In  September 2022, Rich and his husband Randy  retired to Tavira, Portugal; both of them became  permanent residents of Portugal in March 2023.

John M Atherlay –On Broadway: Prelude to A Kiss, A Small Family Business, The Seagull with Tyne Daly, Jon Voight, Original company of Disney’s Beauty and The Beast, Fela, Xanadu. National Tours of Waves Jazz Dance Company, Moms, Stardust with Betty Buckley, All Most Like Being in Love with Diahann Carroll, The Producer’s, Little Shop of Horrors, !01 Dalmatians, The Musical, Fiddler on The Roof with Topol, Anything Goes, Fela, The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansbury, Cabaret, The Band’s Visit, A Soldier’s Play.

Patreshettarlini Adams (she, her) ‘Pat’ is proud to be the resident Stage Manager at the Wilma Theater. She has been with the organization since the theater opened its new home on the Avenue of the Arts in 1996. She has been a member of Actor’s Equity for over 31 years. She is a 2020 recipient of the Del Hughes Award. Pat’s career encompasses work on over 100 productions, including the
Crossroads Theatre Company; Freedom Theatre; New Victory Theater; Ford’s Theater; The National Black Theater Festival and The National Black Arts Festival; the Standard Bank National Arts Festival,
Grahamstown, South Africa. She has also traveled with acclaimed dance company, Noche Flamenca! Thanks be to God!

Robert Sutherland-Cohen has been Production Stage Manager for: Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional productions, New York City Opera, Lincoln Center Festivals, and Entertainment Operations Manager - the Tropicana. For the SMA he was a founding member and frequent chairperson. Robert was instrumental in forming and mentoring USITT’s Stage Management Mentoring Project. He retired as Associate Professor (emeritus) Brooklyn College, Department of Theater. His books include: Tesla for Beginners & Introduction to Production:
Creating Theatre Onstage, Backstage & Offstage. He was been twice nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association for Career Excellence in Photography (2020 & 2022 ). He received the SMA Founders Award (2020).

A 38-year career includes shows on Broadway: Fosse, The Best Man, and Holiday. National Tours: Fosse, ....Spelling Bee, Will Rogers Follies with Larry Gatlin, and Off-Broadway: Head of Passes with Phylicia Rashad (The Public Theater), Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA), MCC Theater, Vineyard Theatre, Signature Theatre, Shakespeare in the Park, Roundabout Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage Theater, Minetta Lane Theatre, NYTW, NYSAF. mShe has worked on over 60 productions in Regional Theater at: The Guthrie, Children's Theater Company, Ford’s Theatre, Ordway, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Alley Theatre, Trinity Rep, KCRep and Papermill Playhouse. She worked in OPERA at: MN Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Opera Memphis, and 2 seasons with New York City Opera as well as many events. She received her B.A. and B.S. from Bemidji State University. 

Nikki Hyde (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of  Stage Management at University of North Carolina  School of the Arts. For over 15 years, she has  worked as a stage manager on productions ranging from staged readings of new work to  world-premiere operas to community musical  pageants with over 200 cast members. She is a  longtime ensemble member of Cornerstone  Theater Company. Nikki has stage managed all over the country, including at the Kennedy Center,  LA Opera, San Diego Opera, the Hollywood Bowl,  the Public Theater, South Coast Repertory, Wallis  Annenberg Center, Ojai Playwrights Conference,  Pasadena Playhouse, and Center Theatre Group.  She proudly serves on the Board of Directors of  Notch Theatre Company and the Stage Managers’  Association Foundation. Nikki has taught at  California Institute of the Arts and University of  California San Diego. She is a graduate of the  University of Southern California.

James Latus has been stage managing professionally now for 42 years. His Broadway credits include The Collaboration, The Kite Runner, Oklahoma!, True West, Farinelli and the King, Time and the Conways, Indecent, Jitney, All The Way, A Time To Kill, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,  Clybourne Park, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Elaine Stritch At Liberty, Stones In His Pockets, Bells Are Ringing, The Capeman. He has worked Off-Broadway at The Public Theater (21 productions), Shakespeare in the Park (13 productions), Playwrights Horizons, BAM and others plus numerous regional and  international productions. He is delighted to be on the board of the SMAF.

J. Jason Daunter is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association with over 20 years of professional management experience.  Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird starring Jeff Daniels, Meteor Shower starring Amy Schumer, A Doll’s House, Part 2 starring Laurie Metcalf, Cyrano De Bergerac starring Kevin Kline, Shuffle Along, Glory Days, and Wicked. National Tours include: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Christmas Carol and Wicked. Internationally Jason served as the Production Supervisor on Lonny Price’s World Tour of West Side Story. Regional credits include: The Geffen Playhouse (Production Supervisor), The Muny, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Stages St. Louis, The Kennedy Center and Chita Rivera: Nowadays at Carnegie Hall. On the national level of Educational Theatre Jason is the recipient of The Educational Theatre Association’s President & Founders Awards. Jason’s philanthropic work includes creating/producing benefits for The Educational Theatre Foundation, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, and the American Theatre Wing. He serves on the Board for California Thespians.  Jason is currently the Executive Producer for Brite Ideas, Complete Technical Solutions in California overseeing large scale events worldwide.

​Judy Martel has been a stage manager for around  50 years, a member of Actors’ Equity for more than 40 years, and a member of the Stage Managers' Association for nearly 40 years. She has 200+ shows to her credit in Illinois, New York, Connecticut, and, since 1985, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she was the Production Stage Manager at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre for 34 seasons. She also worked with many of the other theaters in the state. She studied theater, math, and linguistics at Cornell University, and ended up with a B.A. in theater. She also received an MFA in stage management from the Yale School of Drama. She is an avid theatergoer, seeking out productions wherever she goes. Judy joined the SMA in 1983, and has been an active member since then. In 2020, she was honored at the National Meeting with a Lifetime Professional Membership to the SMA. Judy has served on several Equity committees, including the Stage Managers committee, and she was a delegate to the first two national conventions. She is currently the leader of the AEA Milwaukee/Madison Community. Judy is also a freelance editor. She has two daughters and a grandson.

Bob hails from Flint Michigan. He is a graduate of Central Michigan University and The University of Michigan. He served in Thailand with the U.S. Army. He taught high school English, Journalism and  Theater in New York and Bangkok. Among his credits as a Stage Manager and Administrator
are: RSC Nicholas Nickleby, Peter Brook’s The Cherry Orchard. Broadway: Time Stands Still, Bent, I Love My Wife, Dancing At Lughnasa, Nick & Nora, Awake and Sing!, American Buffalo, Desire Under The Elms, The Coast of Utopia, Stick Fly, The Trip To Bountiful and The Lyons. Tours: La Cage Aux
Folles, Grey Gardens, Sugar Babies, Evita, My Fat Friend, Grease, Shenandoah, Guys and Dolls. OB: Los Otros, Incident At Vichy, Inner Voices, Curse Of The Starving Class, Young Man From Atlanta. Bay Street Theatre, Berkshire Theatre. Tony Nominated Managing Director The Rose Tattoo, Assoc Artistic Director National Music Theater Conference. General Manager BAM. Vice-President Stage Operations Radio City Music Hall.