Working Language English?

Stagehands.net has a global network.
Providing support staff to locations all over the world, as you can imagine, often involves working in many different languages and terminologies. English is the obvious go-to dialect for most international crews working together, but what happens when a crew doesn’t share English, just how many languages can the stagehands crew speak and just how important is a multilingual crew?

Well, the Stagehands.net crew in Berlin alone can speak over 20 different languages, including; Norwegian, Portuguese, Greek, Icelandic, Turkish and Russian among many others. The linguistic diversity of the crew has proven to be hugely important to the service they provide.
Having even one member of the local crew being able to speak your mother tongue makes a project a far more comfortable experience for everyone involved. There is nothing worse on a stressful show than having to consult Google translate before shouting at the new French guy for forgetting his safety boots. ((Disclaimer: our French speaking crew and all other French nationals in the industry are highly skilled and would, I imagine, never make such an unforgivable error))

Having a crew that can speak the local language and a working language (often English) is one thing, but having a multilingual network of technicians and stagehands means being able to cater to all needs and overcome some barrier that would otherwise cause difficult on a building site.
The diversity of the crew grows with the industry, and as long as the world needs event hands, it will continue to grow.

Stagehands.net- Now you’re speaking my language.

(Picture: Stagehands.net Paris crew in full working clothes…including boots)