dra·ma NOUN: 1a. A prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story, that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action. b. A serious narrative work or program for television, radio, or the cinema. 2. Theatrical plays of a particular kind or period: Elizabethan drama. 3. The art or practice of writing or producing dramatic works. 4. A situation or succession of events in real life having the dramatic progression or emotional effect characteristic of a play: the drama of the prisoner's escape and recapture. 5. The quality or condition of being dramatic: a summit meeting full of drama. ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin drma, drmat-, from Greek, from drn, to do, perform. The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

INDO-EUROPEAN ROOT: nu-
DEFINITION: Boat. Oldest form *ne2u-, colored to *na2u-, contracted to *nau- (before consonants) and *nw- (before vowels). 1. nacelle, naval, nave1, navicular, navigate, navy, from Latin nvis, ship. 2. nausea, nautical, nautilus, noise; aeronaut, aquanaut, Argonaut, astronaut, cosmonaut, from Greek naus, ship, and nauts, sailor. (Pokorny 1. nus- 755.) The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Therefore: dra-ma-naut NOUN: 1. One who navigates, like a sailor, the situations, compositions and programs that constitute the progression and emotional effect characteristic of a play.