stagehand

noun

stage·hand ˈstāj-ˌhand

: a stage worker who handles scenery, properties, or lights

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In order to get The Mikado off the ground, the two composers need to get everyone onboard: the old actors, the new boys, the producers, the choreographer, the costume designer, the stagehands, the orchestra … to say nothing of their wives and mistresses back home. —

Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024 The Tribe gang – Rodgers and eight production supervisors who regularly work with him on the Super Bowl – then trained a crew of 400 local stagehands and 15 local supervisors on the operation. —

Gary Graff, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 For Costanzo isn’t alone onstage; he’s surrounded by a company of actors, all first-rate clowns, who begin the play as his harried, breathless stagehands and gradually morph into full expressions of Mozart and Da Ponte’s characters. —

Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024 The crowd springs to its feet, the stagehand gives a go-sign, and Harris rushes forward, into the light. —

Nathan Heller, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stagehand