Used to mark where stage furniture or objects are placed.
What is spike tape?
100
A stage in which the audience is seated on all four sides.
What is an arena stage? Or theatre in the round?
100
Promotes and supports university and college theatre programs with regional festivals throughout the US
What is KC/ACTF Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival?
100
Responsible for subscriptions and single tickets sales for 450-seat arts center and 125-seat studio theatre.
What is Box Office Manager?
100
A scale diagram that shows where the scenery is placed on the stage floor.
What is a groundplan?
200
Used to insure that lighting instruments do not fall on actors.
What are safety cables?
200
A flexible performance space where the relation between the audience and actors can be defined in multiple configurations
What is a Black Box?
200
Promotes and supports university and college dance programs with regional festivals across the US.
What is ACDFA- American College Dance Festival Association
200
Responsibilities include housing, transportation, and travel arrangements for actors, designers and technicians.
Who is the Company Manager?
200
The notebook kept by the stage manager that contains all paperwork necessary to the production.
What is the stage manager's prompt book?
300
Used to create a level change for staging with the addition of legs to determine height.
What are platforms?
300
Any space that is used to perform outside of a theatre building.
What is environmental staging?
300
Organization that promotoes and supports all aspects of Technical Theatre and Entertainment events.
What is USITT?
300
Duties include supervision of crews and progress, costing out labor/materials for 6 mainstage and 2 touring shows and assisting the Production Manager with long-range facility planning.
Who is the Technical Director?
300
A stage that is built on an upward slant.
What is a raked stage?
400
Used to put more than one lighting instrument into one circuit.
What is a two-fer?
400
Considerd to be "classical" in its configuration of audience in a horseshoe or on three sides of the stage.
What is a thrust stage?
400
A group of professional theatres around the US that have joined together to create standards for actor and stage manager contracts.
What is LORT- League of Regional Theatres
400
Responsible for creating and implementing plan for subscriptions, single ticket special events sales and institutional image campaign.
Who is the Marketing Director?
400
The area above the stage that contains lines to be raised or lowered.
What is the fly system?
500
Used to support a free-standing flat.
What is a stage jack?
500
A space where the audience is directly in front of the stage and the action takes placely largely within in "frame".
What is a proscenium arch stage?
500
The national union for professional Stage managers.
What is Actors' Equity?
500
Responsibilities include selecting plays for Board approval, cast plays within Equity guidelines, and hire and manage directors and designers.
Who is the Artistic Director
500
A backstage room used by actors and crew as a waiting and meeting area.