stage manager

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Recent Examples of stage manager Additional creative team members include director and choreographer Luis Salgado, production stage manager Linda Marvel, sound designer Shannon Slaton, lighting designer Keith Truax, associate producer David Katz, and general manager Maria DiDia. Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2025 Cast members rushing in and out of scenes, detailed instructions from production stage manager Jennifer Hsu — which included everything from scene directions to lighting directions, to orchestra directions — and the wings packed with performers made backstage appear chaotic to the casual observer. Maxwell Alexander, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024 Finally, the geezer has had enough and trashes the car and its garage, much to the dismay of the demonic driver, played by Strings’ stage manager Nate Flores. Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024 But the rest of the cast, especially Dave Bautista’s tender performance as stage manager Eddie and Jamie Lee Curtis as Annette, an aging cocktail waitress, is also superb. Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stage manager 
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Noun
  • That would be lyricist Fred Ebb, playwright Terrence McNally and original star Chita Rivera, key figures behind the 1993 Broadway musical, alongside composer John Kander and stage director Harold Prince.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Emerson Haven, a 26-year-old stage director and student based in New York City, occasionally drinks in social settings, but often opts for a sober night out for health reasons.
    Solcyré Burga, TIME, 1 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Sweet Magnolias hasn't been renewed yet for season five, but showrunner and executive producer Sheryl Anderson has already been thinking of what their journey looks like going forward.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Unlike those shows, Clean Slate, an Amazon comedy created by Dan Ewen, Laverne Cox, and George Wallace that includes Lear among its executive producers, is an original story.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The ballerina Maria Tallchief was having dinner with her husband, the choreographer George Balanchine, at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan when the impresario Sol Hurok approached their table.
    Meryl Cates, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The movie perks up when Michael Keaton and Eva Green arrive as a ruthless impresario and his sensitive acrobat girlfriend, and Burton envisions his obvious Disneyland analog as a capitalist hellscape.
    Josh Bell, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024

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