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• n  an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production

• A 19th century Philadelphia stagehand bequeathed his head to the local company "to represent the skull of Yorick in the play Hamlet.
• The Phoenix still pays its top people only $100, gets along with a seven-man stagehand crew (v.
• The stagehand told Bob Hope he had a minute and a half before it all started.

• stage technician

News & Articles

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• San Rafael teacher a crowd pleaser in Exploratorium's Iron Science Teacher Competition
  Just before he was to go before a live audience Friday in the Exploratorium's 16th annual Iron Science Teacher Competition, Adam Singer was only slightly aghast when a stagehand splashed water on the little electronic salinity testing gizmo he'd built for the show, shorting it out and rendering it
  June 28, 2013 - Marin Independent Journal

Quotes

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• Ben Kingsley in Post Chronicle
  Kingsley says, "In my days with the Royal Shakespeare Company there were backstage crew covered in tattoos. I remember one stagehand said to a colleague of mine, 'I 'eard you 'ad your f**king car stolen.'
• Paul Taylor in The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
  Each act is generally a disaster,Taylor says. "Things are dropped. People fall down. There's a garland dance where the daisies keep coming off, and the stagehand has to run around picking them up during the dance."