Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A worker who shifts scenery, adjusts lighting, and performs other tasks required in a theatrical production.
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- noun A person who works behind the
scenes at atheatre or in other theatricalmedia .
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- noun an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production
Etymologies
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Examples
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The 'stagehand' is Ant (or possibly Dec), presenter of the show. gunga galunga: he knew exactly what audeince's preconceptions
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SELLER: Heidi Brown, a stagehand on Broadway in New York.
Mediterranean by the Sea Sarah Tilton 2011
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I spoke with Eric Lavalley, a stagehand who picketed with his IATSE union Saturday afternoon on Broad Street.
Feliz L. Molina: Poets Occupy Philadelphia in Solidarity With Occupy Wall Street Feliz L. Molina 2011
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I spoke with Eric Lavalley, a stagehand who picketed with his IATSE union Saturday afternoon on Broad Street.
Feliz L. Molina: Poets Occupy Philadelphia in Solidarity With Occupy Wall Street Feliz L. Molina 2011
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Among those killed were security guard Glenn Goodrich and stagehand Nathan Byrd.
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Five minutes, a stagehand poked her head in and told Alaina.
Wedded Bliss Erika Fletcher 2011
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He was a stagehand at the Cleveland Convention Center and a lighting man at the Roxy Bar & Grille on Short Vincent Avenue.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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Brent Haywood Heidi Brown, a stagehand on Broadway in New York, inherited this Mediterranean-style house in La Jolla, Calif., from her aunt and uncle, who died in February within two weeks of each other after almost 61 years of marriage.
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 In truth, Chaplin did not always portray a tramp; in many of his films his character was employed as a waiter, store clerk, stagehand, fireman, and the like.
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Among those killed were security guard Glenn Goodrich and stagehand Nathan Byrd.
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