Theatre Architecture
This theatre architecture places the audience on only one side of the stage.
Proscenium theatre
This scenic element is a wooden frame that can be covered in canvas or plywood.
Flat
The earliest source of theatrical lighting was this natural light source used in ancient outdoor theatres.
The sun
This production team member coordinates rehearsals, schedules, communication, and performance cues to keep a show running smoothly.
Stage Manager
This modern theatre professional is responsible for planning how light will support the story, mood, and visual composition of a production.
Lighting Designer
This stage configuration surrounds the acting area with audience members on all four sides.
Arena Theatre
This scenic element is good for masking or hiding the backstage area.
Drapes
This invention brought stage lighting closer to its modern form and allowed greater control over illumination.
Gas Light
This team constructs the scenery designed by the scenic designer.
Scene Shop Crew
This theatre artist responsible for designing the physical environment of a production.
Scene Designer
In this theatre layout, the audience sits on three sides of the performance space.
Thrust Stage
This scenic element helps directors use levels in creating the stage picture.
Platforms
A primary purpose of lighting is to direct the audience's attention to this specific area, character, or action onstage.
Focus
This team is quick to change the costumes if necessary.
Wardrobe Crew
Through research, sketching, and collaboration, this designer determines how characters will visually reflect the play's period, culture, and personality.
Costume Designer
The Sisters is a type of highly adaptable theatre architecture that features movable seating and staging arrangements.
Black Box Theatre
This loosely woven fabric is opaque when lit from behind.
Scrim
Besides visibility, lighting helps establish this emotional quality of a scene.
Mood
This crew member operates the lighting equipment during the performance by following cues from the stage manager.
Light Board Operator
By selecting, creating, and controlling audio elements, this designer helps amplify mood, shape audience response, and support the dramatic action of a play.
Sound Designer
This architectural feature creates the illusion that the audience is looking through an invisible wall into the world of the play.
Fourth Wall
Scenic materials help transform the stage into the world of the play and support this broader theatrical function
Story Telling
This document shows the placement, type, color, and wiring of each lighting instrument.
Light Plot
The collective group responsible for turning designers' plans into a working production through construction, installation, operation, and maintenance.
Technical Production Team
This theatre artist designs the images and video displayed onstage during a performance.
Projection Designer