Administrators & Technical Staff

Margaret Coleman

(Managing Director) Peggy brings to the Company extensive management and consulting experience from corporate, government and non-profit sectors. She directed her own consultancy for nearly ten years, which focused on organizational development, finance, marketing and social services. As senior consultant in the management advisory services division of a public accounting firm, she served real estate, non-profit and retail clients, among others. As associate director of continuing education for an urban-based university, she developed and ran innovative educational, cultural and professional programs including procurement and management of community economic development grants and the Certified Employee Benefits program. She has managed large projects whose success depended on engaging the public. An elected delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business, she was cited by the U.S. Small Business Administration for service to small business. Throughout her career she has served on the boards of civic, trade, social service and cultural organizations. Coleman earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of St. Elizabeth and a Master of Science degree from New York University.

Sarah Dell'Orto

Sarah Dell'Orto is Battery Dance Company's new Program Manager. Check back for biography!

David Bengali

(Assistant Technical Director) works in directing and design in New York City and surroundings. He is a resident designer for the Stolen Chair Theatre Company, and has designed projects for Balinese American Dance Theatre, New Jersey Opera Theater, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Princeton Summer Theater and many others. He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he studied theater and worked with student productions and the McCarter Theater.

Barry Steele

(Lighting Designer) Barry has designed and supervised lighting for Battery Dance Company's productions in the U.S., India, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovenia since 1996. He designed Battery's production in collaboration with Anjali Dance Center for the Miller Theater in Houston, and designed Battery’s most recent works, Notebooks, Secrets of the Paving Stones and Hers and Histories. He has also designed the lighting for opera and theater companies in the U.S. and France.
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