Puppeteer
Creative and Cultural Skills and Equity, two industry bodies, say:
Puppeteers bring inanimate objects to life in order to make them perform and interpret scripts with the same degree of integrity as actors. They work with a variety of different puppets, including hand puppets, stringed puppets (marionettes), puppets that are life size–or bigger, animatronics, etc. Productions can make enormous demands on puppeteers. They are often required to cope with poor physical conditions, including working in various strange positions on, under or above the stage, whilst also being able to operate a variety of puppets, irrespective of how well or badly they have been made. Some puppeteers also make their own puppets.
