stagehand

English

Etymology

stage +‎ hand (manual worker)

Noun

stagehand (plural stagehands)

A person who works behind the scenes at a theatre or in other theatrical media.
The actors get the glory, the spotlight and the name up in lights while it is the stagehands who point the spotlight, hang the name and change the light bulbs.

Synonyms

scene-shifter

Translations

person working behind the scenes in a theatre

Finnish: näyttämöavustaja
German: Bühnenhelfer m, Bühnenhelferin f

Romanian: mașinist (ro) m
Swedish: scenarbetare c

Anagrams

Daghestan

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