stagehand

English

Etymology

From stage +‎ hand (“manual worker”).

Noun

stagehand (plural stagehands)

1. A person who works behind the scenes at a theatre or in other theatrical media.

   Hyponyms: sceneman, sceneshifter

   Holonym: stage crew

   Coordinate term: stage manager

   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.

Translations

person working behind the scenes in a theatre

• Bulgarian: сценичен работник m (sceničen rabotnik)
• Finnish: näyttämöavustaja
• German: Bühnenhelfer m, Bühnenhelferin f
• Macedonian: сценски работник m (scenski rabotnik)
• Romanian: mașinist (ro) m
• Spanish: tramoyista (es) m or f
• Swedish: scenarbetare c

Anagrams

• handgates, Daghestan