Stage Kings

Bio

Stagekings was born back at the start of 2015 with husband and wife team Jeremy & Tabitha Fleming. Jeremy explains the initial objective and reason for starting: “We thought the Australian Event Industry - particularly the music & entertainment sector - could be enhanced by introducing custom-designed decorated stages, similar to some of the incredible large-scale designs that we’d seen across the European music festival scene” Jeremy, with a long background in the staging and event production industries, also worked as a scaffolder and in carpentry and had spent time working in Europe in the world of events. Tabitha had over 15 years of experience working in sales and marketing for music labels including EMI, Sony Music and Universal Music who look after some of the world’s biggest artists, so together they not only saw the potential but were also very well placed professionally to understand exactly what was needed. The concept quickly took off, and within a very short time, Stagekings were creating and building some of the largest custom stages and event structures in the country. Mick Jessop was a pivotal addition to the team when he joined in 2016. Another well-known, hugely experienced and respected face in the Australian Event Industry, Mick came to Stagekings from his former role as a Production Manager for Sydney Festival, where he’d been for more than four years. With a strong background in design, he was also used to the intense challenges of large-scale and complex production builds. After initially moving in and out of co-working office spaces, Stagekings finally took the plunge to set up their own dedicated space, and in 2018 moved into a 2,000m2 warehouse in sleepy Kurnell at the end of the Sutherland Shire peninsular (Stagekings has now moved to Caringbah), a space which they have been customising ever since. Part of the warehouse houses the ever-increasing stock of huge quantities of truss, scaffolding and staging when it’s not out on hire, whilst the rest is dedicated to custom builds and carpentry. The warehouse layout is constantly changing to adapt to different projects, and it makes for an exciting place to work. Stagekings has grown at a phenomenal rate and has built an enviable and solid reputation in the national event industry for its pioneering and forward-thinking creativity, ‘can-do’ attitude and sheer speed of agility.