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stage managers

  • plural
    of stage manager.
    stage manager
    noun
    a person responsible for the technical details of a theatrical production, assisting the director during rehearsal, supervising the lighting, costuming, setting, prompting, etc., and assuming full responsibility for the stage during a performance of a play.

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As our interview ends, stage managers are calling him as the show is nearing its start.

From BBC May 23, 2026

And Actors’ Equity, the national union representing actors and stage managers, goes further, with its annual award for Broadway choruses.

From New York Times Apr. 30, 2024

The union hopes that the actors and stage managers of other current and future nonunion tours seek Equity’s representation in negotiations with their employers.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 6, 2023

Theatrical work in the U.S. is overseen and contracted by the Actors’ Equity Association, whose some 51,000 American actors and stage managers remain on the job.

From Seattle Times Sep. 18, 2023

The clergy were caught in the whirlwind; monks and nuns chanted operas, cardinals became stage managers of scenes, a future pope wrote librettos.

From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine

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