Other forms: stagehands
In the theater, a stagehand is someone who works behind the scenes, building sets, setting up lighting, and organizing props.
Stagehands do hard, often physically demanding work to make a play, opera, or movie proceed smoothly. The earliest stagehands worked in the theater, using their hands to pull the heavy backstage rigging that lifts curtains and lighting and sets backdrops in place. Today's stagehands work on all kinds of productions, from circuses to film sets, doing special effects, video projections, carpentry, and more. If you love performance but you've got terrible stage fright, you might want to be a stagehand!