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US
/ˈsteɪdʒˌhænd/
]
[ UK /stˈeɪdʒɪhˌænd/ ]
[ UK /stˈeɪdʒɪhˌænd/ ]
NOUN
- an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production
How To Use stagehand In A Sentence
- He left home while still a child, seeking his fortune in London, where he worked variously as a kitchen hand and hotel pageboy, and later as an actor and stagehand.
- Employed in the mailroom at CBC and called upon once in a while to do part-time stagehand chores, I jumped at the chance to work on Ninety Minutes Live for a week, much of it spent being a gopher for the host.
- She was stiff, wooden, unyielding as if a stagehand was standing in for the leading lady. BLOOD IS DIRT
- When I worked as a stagehand on TV shows it was shredded polyethylene film.
- The amount of camaraderie that the actors and stagehands enjoy and the ‘pleasure we derive from sharing our friendship and moments just cannot be described’.
- Sometimes the actors are so busy moving about the props and making sure they don't walk through imaginary walls, it feels more like we're watching stagehands in period garb than actors involved in the drama.
- Not one Girl was dropped and due to the anti-social breath of the stagehands, not one romance developed.
- At the venue later, a stagehand tells me that the airlines flying into Reno used to have lots of problems because of all the bowlers converging on this city.
- INDIANAPOLIS - Nathan Byrd was known as a daredevil, a wiry stagehand who would take on jobs no one else wanted. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- What a tour de force in a theater hardly equipped to carry off this sort of repertory schedule: the stagehands must have a lot of sleepless nights!