stager

noun4

1. •
   An actor on the stage.
2. •
   One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
3. •
   One who stages a theatrical performance.

   • Here the principal stagers of saints' plays appear to have been the civic authorities, and guilds or confreries, and the popularity of this type of drama owed much to the cult of saints[…] — 1994
4. •
   A horse used in drawing a stagecoach.