WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

playactor
    n 1: an actor who travels around the country presenting plays
         [syn: barnstormer, playactor, play-actor, trouper]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

99 Moby Thesaurus words for "playactor":
   Artful Dodger, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli,
   Machiavellian, Roscius, actor, actress, affecter, antagonist,
   bad guy, bamboozler, barnstormer, befuddler, beguiler, character,
   character actor, character man, character woman, charmer,
   child actor, counterfeiter, deceiver, deluder, diseur, diseuse,
   dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double-dealer, dramatizer, duper,
   enchanter, entrancer, fake, faker, feeder, foil, fooler, forger,
   fraud, gay deceiver, heavy, histrio, histrion, hoaxer, hollow man,
   hypnotizer, impersonator, ingenue, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester,
   juvenile, kidder, leg-puller, man of straw, mannerist,
   matinee idol, mesmerizer, mime, mimer, mimic, misleader,
   monologist, mummer, pantomime, pantomimist, paper tiger, performer,
   phony, plagiarist, plagiarizer, player, practical joker, pretender,
   protean actor, ragger, reciter, role-player, seducer, soubrette,
   spoofer, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man,
   straw man, stroller, strolling player, tease, teaser, theatrical,
   thespian, trouper, utility man, villain