pageanteer

One who produces a pageant.

This show is being put on by Edward Hungerford, the master pageanteer, with a cast of some 250 people.

The pageanteer, then, must be an effective scenewright as well as playwright. Spectacle is another demand often placed upon a pageant-drama.

One who performs a role in a pageant.

We found that he had no real connexion with any church nor with the L.M.S., but had somehow managed to get enrolled as a pageanteer, with the intention, no doubt, of rifling any pockets that he found convenient.

It was not, by a long way, every pageanteer who could afford to order or hire robes, cloaks, tunics, head-dresses from the professionals. Plenty of the smaller “parts” cut out their own costumes and held sewing-bees, sometimes at one house in the Pageant's neighbourhood, sometimes in another.

A contestant in a beauty contest.

For some women, this is their first pageant experience, while others are 'career' pageanteers, who started as young as four.

Already a model and formidable pageanteer —a runner-up in the 2006 Miss Paraguay contest—expect her to segue into a pitchwoman for digital cameras or cereal.