Stagehand Definition

stājhănd
stagehands
noun
stagehands
A worker who shifts scenery, adjusts lighting, and performs other tasks required in a theatrical production.
American Heritage
A person who helps to set and remove scenery and furniture, operate the curtain, etc. for a performance, as of a stage play.
Webster's New World

A person who works behind the scenes at a theatre or in other theatrical media.

The actors get the glory, the spotlight and the name up in lights while it is the stagehands who point the spotlight, hang the name and change the light bulbs.
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stagehand
Plural:
stagehands

Origin of Stagehand

  • stage +"Ž hand (manual worker)

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