Take the Stage
On the right side of a stage from the point of view of a performer facing the audience.
Stage Right
The space reserved for the musicians playing the music for an opera, musical, or ballet, immediately in front of or below the stage.
The Pit
Responsible for the design, installation, and operation of the lighting and special electrical effects used in the production.
Lighting Designer
The location of actors on the stage and the movements that they make.
Blocking
A speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud
Monologue
Moving away from the audience towards the back of the stage
Upstage
The creation of the physical space in which the action of a performed event takes place.
Set
Auditions and cast actors; assemble and oversee the production team; provide design directives; lead rehearsals; and manage the production schedule of the project, ensuring that all the moving parts connect.
Director
To turn your face or entire body either out to the audience to be seen better without completely turning
Cheat Out
A short comment that a character delivers directly to an audience
Aside
On the left side of a stage from the point of view of a performer facing the audience.
Stage Left
The seating area for the audience during a performance
House
Plan and supervise the creation of the costumes and outfits worn by characters in a play or musical.
Costume Designer
The ability to use your voice loudly, powerfully, and clearly while acting, singing, or speaking
Vocal Projection
The story that has been written for actors to perform
Script
The area of a theater, usually behind the set/curtain but still on the stage, where the actors wait until it's time to walk onstage and play their parts.
Backstage
A convention that imagines an invisible wall existing between actors and their audience.
Fourth Wall
Creates the dance elements in a play or musical, and often teaches them to actors, singers, and dancers.
Choreographer
The activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found.
Improv
A written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people
Dialogue
A series of lines drawn on plan and section to indicate the limits of the audience vision from extreme seats.
Sightlines
The process of tearing down the set at the conclusion of the show’s run
Strike
Their primary task is to support the play's development by asking key questions, starting conversations, researching, providing context, and helping the artists as they work together to tell the intended story.
Dramaturg
Something another performer says or does that is a signal for them to begin speaking, playing, or doing something
Cue
An actor or cast who has memorized their lines
Off Book