What's the Creative Team?
This person leads the musicians and directs the musical numbers. They work with the cast, using the written score.
Who is the Musical Director?
This person executes all sound during a show, including the playback of music, special effects
and pre-recorded sound cues.
What is a Sound Operator?
This person creates the lighting concept and equipment requirements for a production. They create a lighting scheme that communicates the feeling of a production and guides the audience’s attention in specific ways throughout a performance.
What is a Lighting Designer?
This person maintains a theater’s electrical systems, including light, sound and video. They operate all lights during a show, including traditional and automated lighting, spotlights, special lighting effects, and house lights. They are responsible for the non-design elements of lighting in the theater, including
hanging and maintenance of the lighting.
What is an Electrician?
This person directs big movements and dance numbers.
Who is the Choreographer?
This person executes light cues during a show. They may work with the Lighting Designer to set the cues as well.
What is a Lighting Board Operator?
This person creates the physical world of a production, including backdrops, set pieces, and, in some cases, even the shape of the stage.
What is a Scenic Designer?
This term is inclusive of carpenters, electrics and props- responsible for moving scenery, special effects, video systems, keeping track of props, and even operating lights and sound systems.
What are Stage Hands?
This person directs the actors in the play. They are usually lead the Creative Team and provide a guiding vision. Their leadership facilitate collaboration among the Musical Director, Choreographer, and Designers.
Who is the Director?
This person assists with quick changes during a production. They keep track of costumes and accessories, and quickly fix costume pieces when
necessary. They attend to beading, laundering, and repairing pieces to ensure that costumes continue to look beautiful throughout a production’s run.
What is the Wardrobe Crew?
This person is responsible for a production’s audio experience, through sound playback, sound
effects, music and amplification.
What is a Sound Designer?
This person maintains stage equipment; constructs, installs and operates all scenic elements.
What is a Carpenter?
This person oversees the technicians and all technical aspects of a production. They have knowledge of the equipment and how to install, rig, troubleshoot and
program lighting, sound, and scenic devices used to set the stage.
Who is the Technical Director?
This person researches, fabricates and find sall necessary props- things that are picked up, used
or set for a production.
What is the Props Supervisor?
This person helps transforms the actors into their characters through the use of clothing. They might helps situate a production in a specific time and place through the visual cues of clothing. They design, research, source and construct the clothes for all the actors in a production.
What is a Costume Designer?
This person serves as a bridge between the artistic teams and production staff. They deal with scheduling rentals, buildings, load-in and load outs, and supervising the execution and implementation of the director and designers’ visions. Oversee the production budget.
Who is the Production Manager?
This person works on a production from the start of rehearsals through the last performance. They coordinate schedules and information for the creative team. They assist the Director during rehearsals, notates blocking and is responsible for all
backstage activity once the show opens. They “call” the show- which can include coordinating deck cues with the lighting and sound operators.
Who is the Stage Manager?
This person develops the look and style for each character’s hair (including facial and body hair) that will help convey the show’s time and location, and character’s personalities.
What is a Hair and Wig Designer?