stagehand

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cinema & theatre: people who work in cinemas & theatres
booker
booking agent
claqueur
dresser
projectionist
prompt
stage manager
stagehand
usher
usherette

Examples of sceneshifter

sceneshifter
Pay your carpenters and sceneshifters, or they'll make it decidedly uncomfortable for you.
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Actors and supers and chorus made haste to get back to their dressing rooms while the sceneshifters rapidly changed the scenery.
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On the contrary, he was greatly interested and kept pausing in order to look at the sceneshifters' maneuvers.
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Some sceneshifters who came out smoking their pipes between the acts brushed rudely against them, but neither one nor the other ventured to complain.
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