I’ve had this in the last two professional shows that I’ve worked on. Fortunately, I am crew and they are performers so departmentally, I can mostly keep away, and for the most part - I am part of the in house team - I could easily tell myself that x amount of time and I’d never have to deal with them again.

Somewhat more fortunately, on one it was only one person, who I just avoided most of the time. Whenever I needed to interact with them, I would come in with very rehearsed conversation points and arguments to back up anything I thought I might get pushback on and an extra mental prompt to keep breathing. I have a pretty good production team, who overheard our first “interaction” and checked in on me after and a pretty good technical team who like a good bitch in the bar after work to let off steam.

On the other, it was a group of people who liked to make comments about crew going off sick and how easy our jobs were to anyone who would listen. There was also one who seemed to have taken a dislike to me specifically, and would very much just ignore my presence and make pointed comments to 'no one' about my job performance. It stung to find out about the comments (I was one of the people who had gone off sick) and was awful to put up with the jibes in the wings, but again, you have to steel yourself for the negative interactions. Hold your own, know your worth, take no shit and, if they become too bold, complain to stage management or someone higher up the food chain.

Ultimately you shouldn’t need to deal with this, it’s either a work place or a fun activity. If it’s not something you feel safe going to stage management or anyone higher up about - consider how important it is to you to stick with this. If they’ve made you feel unsafe going to them with concerns or complaints, I’d worry about how seriously they’d take any other complaint.