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stage manager

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as in stage director

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Recent Examples of stage manager Leslie’s targets had included the Today and NBC logos, fake fruit on set, and stage manager Dave Auerbach. — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026 Robert Downing, a stage manager on original Williams productions and keeper of backstage memory, makes this problem almost comic in its excess. — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026 What’s particularly cool is that the casting agency Alldaffer & Donadio, production stage manager Nicole Wiegert and assistant stage manager Julius Cruz all have extensive experience at both TheaterWorks Hartford and Hartford Stage. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2026 The union represents nearly 20,000 helmers, assistant directors, associate directors, unit production managers and stage managers. — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for stage manager
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  1. stage director
  2. producer
  3. impresario
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  • The plot, which stage director Adam Cioffari has moved to the present day, is about a small Italian opera company’s rehearsal gone wrong due to a titanic clash of egos.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2026
  • New movie about Bay Area legend Writer, filmmaker and stage director Luis Valdez, who spent much of his life in the South Bay, is the subject of an award-winning movie that’s screening in local theaters.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 30 July 2026
Definition of stage director
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  • Pier Nirandara is an author, travel writer, film producer, and underwater photographer.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Before becoming associate newsletter editor at Scientific American, Gometz was a digital producer for WNYC’s Science Friday.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of producer
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  • Her early London shop, famously called SEX, and operated with punk-rock manager and impresario Malcolm McLaren, became closely associated with the emerging punk scene and helped outfit the Sex Pistols.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2026
  • They are said to have been close, with Iger providing notes on Marvel projects and griping about compensation issues to the comic book impresario (both topics expected to be addressed in the book).
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of impresario

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