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Plans specific parts of the production (e.g., costumes, lights).
What is a designer?
They make renderings of how they want the actors to look.
What is a Costume Designer?
A rough sketch used to design some element of a play.
What is a rendering?
Special sounds that are not produced by the actual props on stage, but come from a pre-recorded sound.
What is a Sound Effect?
In charge of running rehearsals, coordinating designers, and calling the show
What is the Stage Manager?
Technicians behind the scenes (props, set, etc.)
What is crew?
Outfits, including accessories and undergarments, worn by an actor in a production.
What are costumes?
Items for stage decor and actor use.
What is a prop?
This might be coming from the pit, live on stage, or possibly recorded. (NOT a sound effect)
What is music?
During shows, the SM works closest with this group of people.
What is crew?
The committee responsible for organizing and implementing all advertising for a production.
What is Publicity Crew?
Any cosmetic effect including hair, that enhances or changes an actor’s appearance.
What is Stage Makeup?
Curtains, backdrops, or any structures constructed to transform an empty stage into a suitable background for a play.
What is Set/Scenery?
Rehearsals to focus on lighting, sound, and effects.
What is a Technical Rehearsal?
This is the kind of meeting an SM will hold usually once a week in anticipation of a production.
What is a Production Meeting?
Manages all props for the production.
What is the Properties Master?
A chart listing all characters, the acts or scenes in which they appear, and all garments and accessories needed.
What is a Costume Plot?
This designer creates a plot that shows a floorplan of the set and how actors will be lit up scene-by-scene
What is a Lighting Designer?
The word that a designer or SM will call when they want the actors to pause whatever they're doing.
What is HOLD!!!!?
The SM is in charge of running these on a day-to-day basis.
What is a rehearsal?
The group responsible for printing tickets and programs and managing the box office, audience, and physical theatre during a production.
What is the House Crew?
This miscolored injury can be made by applying different shades of yellow, green, blue, and black makeup to the skin.
What is a bruise?
The dialogue, sounds, movement, or business signaling an actor or a technician to respond as rehearsed.
What is a Cue?
Named for the tears designers shed during them, these are technical Rehearsals that include actors.
What is Wet Tech?
This is the person who acts as the SM's supervisor or boss.
What is NOBODY?