About Stage Gear

Theatre has always been the point.

Stage Gear is a theatre technology company. Our story started with one man renting wireless microphones to schools, churches and community theatres. It has never really been about anything else: helping the people backstage get a show in front of an audience.

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Rolling road case for a Show-Ready wireless rack

A road case in the Stage Gear warehouse.

Our story began with Bodymics

Before Stage Gear, there was Bodymics.

Rod Reilly came to the United States from Australia with a career in live sound behind him. In theatre he found a gap most AV companies ignored: schools, churches and community theatre groups wanted to mic their casts, but professional wireless systems were priced for Broadway, not for the spring musical.

So in 2007 he started renting them. Bodymics shipped complete, pre-racked wireless systems (receivers, power, antennas, transmitters and microphones) so a cast could rehearse the day the gear arrived. Working with manufacturing partners, Rod also developed his own theatre microphones, the Broadway and Drury Lane series, in the colors, boom lengths and connectors real productions needed, at prices a drama program could afford.

The company called its standard Value meets Quality: when a product could be built better, build it; when someone already made the right thing, partner with them. You could see it in the details: a flat-rate repair service so one broken mic didn’t wreck a school budget, a guide to building hair rigs for lavaliers, and tapered XLR looms invented because Rod was tired of the cable nests behind his own rental racks.

For nearly two decades, local theatre producers staging Broadway's most technically demanding new musicals have found invaluable support in BodyMics Wireless Systems.
Rod Reilly, founder of Bodymics, February 2024

Back of a wireless rack, wired and labeled before it ships — The back of a wireless rack: the part nobody sees, and the part that has to be right.

How we got here

Two rental houses. One idea.

Stage Gear grew out of two companies that spent years shipping equipment to theatres and getting it back after closing night.

2007
Bodymics
Rod Reilly starts renting pre-racked wireless microphone systems to school and community theatre.
2013
Broadway Media
Quentin Sanford founds Broadway Media, starting with scenic projections for licensed productions, then scenery, software and rental gear.
2024
Together
In February, Broadway Media acquires Bodymics and brings it into Stage Gear, its theatre AV division.
Today
Stage Gear
Microphones, wireless systems, projection, rentals and support for theatre, from one team.

From Bodymics to Stage Gear

What thousands of rentals teach you.

Stage Gear began as the theatre-focused rental side of Broadway Media, the company behind digital scenery for school and community productions. Rentals teach you things a catalog never will. You learn which connector a teacher will be holding at 9 p.m. the night before tech. You learn what breaks, what survives a school cast, and what a volunteer can set up without a manual.

Bodymics had spent years learning the same lessons from the microphone side. Bringing the two together means Rod’s racks, microphones and know-how now sit alongside projection, rentals and school purchasing under one roof. The microphones still carry the Bodymics name. The thinking behind them runs through everything else we do.

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Illustration of the Stage Gear team — The Stage Gear crew, including Bodymics founder Rod Reilly and owner Quentin Sanford.

Built around theatre

Theatre isn’t a normal AV job.

A conference room can reboot on Tuesday. A show opens Friday at 7:30, ready or not. Everything we sell, rent and support starts from that.

The person ordering is often the teacher.
Director, designer, fundraiser, sometimes bus driver. Our job is to make technical decisions understandable, not to win an argument about specs.
The deadline is opening night.
We plan around tech week. Rentals run Monday to Monday, and we ask when your show opens before we ask what you want to buy.
Budgets are real.
We’d rather recommend the right system than the most expensive one. Sometimes the right answer is a rental, a certified ex-rental projector, or eight more microphones.
Performers come in every size.
Young casts need shorter booms, headsets that survive choreography, and spares in the drawer. That’s why Bodymics come in five boom lengths and three colors.
Volunteers have to run it.
Show-Ready systems arrive racked, cabled, programmed and tested, so the crew can plug in and get to rehearsal.
Something will go wrong.
When it does, you can call a person who knows theatre. Bodymics carry a one-year warranty, then flat-rate service for years two through five.

What Stage Gear is today

Everything between the performer and the audience.

Start wherever your production is. Each of these is backed by the same team.

Theatre microphones

Bodymics

Earsets, headsets and hairline mics in the Broadway and Drury Lane series, wired for the wireless system you already own.

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Wireless audio

Show-Ready Wireless Systems

Complete systems for 8 to 24 performers, racked, programmed, frequency-coordinated and tested before they ship.

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Projection

Projectors & projection systems

Projectors, lenses and complete systems for scenic projection, sized to your room, your image and your lighting.

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Rentals

Gear for one production

Wireless mic and projector packages timed for tech week, booked and fulfilled through Broadway Media.

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Sound & communication

Audio & intercoms

Mixers, speakers, in-ear monitors, backstage intercoms and the cabling that ties it together.

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Support

Warranty, repair & service

Help when something stops working, from the people who built, racked or chose it with you.

Warranty & repair

Expertise, not just inventory

Call us. Someone who knows theatre picks up.

Anyone can list a wireless system online. The hard part is knowing that your transmitters need a TA4F connector, whether a 3.3" boom suits a smaller performer, or that the projector you like will wash out under your front light.

That is the work we do every day: identifying a bodypack from a photo, building and testing racks before they ship, sizing a projector to a room, and working backward from your opening night. Our prices are online. So is our phone number, and we’d rather you use it than buy the wrong thing.

718-874-2642 · hello@shopstagegear.com

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Wireless receivers mounted in a rack at Stage Gear — A wireless rack on the bench in the Stage Gear warehouse.

What we make

We don’t just resell it. We build it, rack it and fix it.

Some of the most useful things we sell exist because a theatre needed them and nobody made them quite right.

Heritage

Bodymics microphones

Rod’s Broadway and Drury Lane series: two capsule sizes, five boom lengths and three colors, wired for Shure, Sennheiser, Audio-Technica, AKG, MiPro and Creative Audio.

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House brand

Creative Audio

Our own wireless, antenna and theatre sound systems: the Stage Gear Recommended platform for school and community theatre, supported directly by Stage Gear.

About Creative Audio

Configured in-house

Show-Ready systems

Wireless racks we assemble, cable, program, frequency-coordinate and test before they ship, so they work on day one.

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Credentials

The platforms theatres already trust.

We are an Authorized Reseller of Epson® projectors, and our wireless systems and microphones are built around the platforms schools and theatres already use: Shure, Sennheiser, Audio-Technica, AKG and MiPro, alongside our own Creative Audio.

Stage Gear is part of Broadway Media, which works with licensors including Theatrical Rights Worldwide and Broadway Licensing Global to support licensed productions.

Who we serve

The people who make the show happen.

Our customers rarely have AV in their job title. They make theatre anyway.

Theatre teachersDirecting, designing and running sound, often in the same week.
Schools & districtsFormal quotes, purchase orders and equipment that lasts more than one season.
Community theatresVolunteer crews, borrowed spaces and budgets that have to stretch.
Performing arts programsSmall faces, big choreography and spares for quick changes.
Colleges & performing arts centersBigger rooms, more channels and permanent installations.
Sound designers & techniciansPeople who know exactly what they need and want it to arrive working.
Houses of worshipBodymics has served churches alongside schools from the beginning.
Professional productionsWhen the mic has to disappear at close range, Drury Lane is built for it.

The Little Mermaid, California Regional Theatre

Stage Gear

Somewhere tonight, a show goes up.

A teacher is taping a mic cable along a young actor’s cheek. A volunteer is counting batteries. A stage manager is calling places. That’s who we work for. Whatever you’re putting on next, we’d like to help it go right.

Prefer to talk it through? Call 718-874-2642 or email hello@shopstagegear.com.