A `stagehand` is one of the people who work backstage in a theatre, doing the physical jobs that make a performance possible: moving scenery, shifting furniture between scenes, handling ropes and curtains, setting out the objects the actors will pick up. They are usually dressed in black so the audience does not see them, and much of their work happens in the dark, fast, in the seconds between one scene and the next. The word is countable and completely ordinary — a job title, not a fancy word. Stagehands are not actors and not the director; they are the crew. Many people who later work in theatre start here, so you often hear it in a life story: "he began as a stagehand". It also carries a useful figurative flavour. Calling someone a stagehand in an argument or an organization suggests they do the real, unseen work while others take the applause — or, less kindly, that they are only a helper, not the one deciding anything.

舞台工作人員、後台場務（負責搬佈景、換道具、拉幕等幕後工作，常穿黑衣避免被觀眾看見）。可數名詞，是職稱；引申可指「幕後做實事、不被看見的人」。