Scene Painter (Narrator Role)
A performer who describes a scene's environment in third person as the scene is played — used in scene-painting openings and narrator-based long-forms.
Known for
- Distinct from tag-in scene painting: the narrator may stay on stage throughout, continuously describing what players can't show.
- Forms that use this heavily: storybook-style long-forms, some Paul Sills Story Theater adaptations, genre pastiches (Noir).
- Craft discipline: the narrator describes what the audience cannot see, not what they can — no redundancy with the physical action.