what's my job
This person “sells” the production and/or season
What is a publicist?
This piece of theatre architecture frames the action of a play.
What is a proscenicum?
This type of lighting doesn’t need to suggest any particular source and can be used simply to evoke a mood appropriate to a scene or to a moment’s action.
What is atmospheric?
Rapid development of audio recording and playback technologies has led to a virtual revolution in this area of scenography.
What is sound design?
This person designs dance and movement-based sequences
What is a choreographer?
This individual is the author of a play
What is a playwright?
This building block of stage scenery allows the actors to perform on different levels.
What is a platform?
Another word for lifelikeness in theatrical lighting
What is verisimilitude?
For much of theatre’s history, most of the actors in a cast were required to provide their own ______.
What are costumes?
This individual assists in actor selection for a play.
What is a casting director?
This person assists actors with preparation of costumes
What is a dresser?
This is employed to make actors and even whole sets seem to instantly appear or disappear.
What is a scrim?
A background device employed to cover the back and sometimes side of the stage.
What is a cylcorama?
This part of scenography helps make a performer visible and comprehensible to an audience, look interesting or beautiful, or transform them into a character.
What is makeup?
The artistic guide of a play or production.
What is a director?
This group of people makes changes to scenery, lights, etc. during production.
What is the running crew?
Box sets are an example of this style of design.
What is realism?
A "map" showing each light's placement characteristics.
What is a light plot?
Framing and manipulating an object intentionally can be perceived as this theatrical effect.
What is puppety?
This person oversees the creative staff of a theatre company
What is an artistic director?
The group of people oversees everything and anything at a theatre company.
What is the Governing Board?
A technique that balances between realism and abstraction.
What is metatheatricality?
A list of the precise moments in the script that the lights are to move and/or change color or intensity.
What is a cue sheet?
A steady beam of focused, incandescent, electric light in the late 1800s created the opportunity for this special theatrical effect to develop.
What is projection?
This person serves as the research and text specialist.
What is a dramaturg?