Set Design
A stage with the audience on all four sides, eliminating the possibility of having a backstage.
What is an arena?
What is pre-show?
Translate: En USR, X C, Ex DSL
Enter Upstage Right, cross Center, exit Downstage Left
Name two of the four colors commonly associated with villains.
What is Red?
What is Purple?
What is Black?
What is Green?
A device that is often used in theaters because of how easily backgrounds can be changed with just a click or push of a button.
What is a projector?
This microphone is named after its location onstage and is particularly good for plays that involve fighting.
What is a floor mic?
This person's name must appear with the name of the play on all posters, social media graphics, and programs as per licensing agreements.
Who is the playwright/author?
This style of makeup is associated with wrinkles, drooping skin, and sun damage.
What is old age makeup?
The musical narrator of Of Plastic Things and Butterfly Wings who doesn't have any lines until his song at the end of the play.
Who is the Oldest Sea Turtle that Ever Lived?
The name for pre-built walls and large 2D in theatre. Often times these walls are left whole and moved into storage instead of getting totally dismantled.
What is a flat?
A household item often used to create the sound of snow.
What is corn starch?
The person in charge of a show once it opens to the public for performances.
Who is the stage manager?
Add this inedible ingredient to a batch of fake blood to create guts and intestines on the cheap.
What is toilet paper?
The goddess who punishes Erysichthon for cutting down one of her sacred trees. Greek or Roman name.
Who is Demeter/Ceres?
A three-sided wall on wheels that can help with low-tech set changes. GREEK NAME ONLY.
What is a peri/periaktos?
This microphone works well in musical theatre because it allows the performer to sing and dance with full use of their hands and without fear of kicking an expensive piece of technology.
What is an over-the-ear/body mic?
The area in the theater that houses the majority of a company's tools and paint.
What is a set shop/scene shop?
A textured synthetic block used to create texture on the skin. This works particularly well for blood, freckles, and rashes.
What is a stipple sponge?
The swirling whirling hell-scape of a marine trash pile where the audience first meets Sam's parents.
What are the Gyres?
The name for the kind of theater we have downstairs in our auditorium, characterized by having the actors on one side of an imaginary wall and the audience on the other side.
What is a proscenium?
The art of creating sound effects for movies and television. In class, we practiced this artform with video game boss battles.
What is Foley Art?
A form of pre-casting where celebrities are given a role without auditioning. This kind of casting is designed to help a show boost ticket sales and attendance.
What is stunt casting?
The name of the character who has to turn green for her nightly performance in Wicked.
Who is Elphaba?
This area of theatrical design compliments any production thanks to its focuses on world-building, actor education, and audience engagement.
What is Dramaturgy?