This person is responsible for everything the actors wear on stage.
Who is the Costume Designer?
100
This is where the audience sits.
What is the house?
100
This curtain separates the audience from the majority of the stage.
What is the Grand Drape/Main Curtain/Front Curtain?
100
This person has the overall vision for a production.
Who is the Director?
100
These people work together to create or accomplish something. Their success or failure depends on the success or failure of everyone.
What is an ensemble?
200
This person oversees all the technical crews and designers. He or she is responsible for making sure the technical side communicates with the director.
Who is the Stage Manager?
200
This is the narrow acting area of the stage in front of the proscenium arch.
What is the Apron?
200
These curtains hide the offstage areas from the audience.
What are the Legs?
200
This person works closely with the set designer and director to design the lighting plots.
Who is the Lighting Designer?
200
This is what actors have to do before performances in order for their voices and bodies to be ready for the task at hand.
What are warmups?
300
This person is responsible for designing the scenery that will be used in the play.
Who is the Set Designer?
300
These terms come from stages being built at an angle, or raked, and refer to the area closest to and furthest from the audience.
!!!!!DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
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What are Upstage and Downstage?
300
This is type of stage is a modification of a proscenium stage that brings the action onstage out "into" and closer to the audience.
Daily Double!!!
What is a Thrust Stage?
300
This person works with the stage manager to find or make props for rehearsal and performance.
Who is the Prop Designer?
300
This person is in charge of creating the sound effects for a show.
Daily double!!!!
What is a sound designer?
400
This person is often considered the most powerful on the production team because they control the money.
Who is the Producer?
400
This is the "picture frame" opening for the stage. The grand drape is usually here.
What is the Proscenium Arch?
400
A neutral performance space with four walls, floor, and ceiling, in which the audience and performance area can be arranged in a variety of configurations.
What is a black box?
400
This person is responsible for line notes once the actors are off book during rehearsals to help them remember their lines. This person is also in charge of the script.
Who is the Stage Manager?
400
These are the abbreviations for the nine acting areas on stage.
What are USC/UC, USR/UR, USL/UL, CS, RC/CSR, LC/CSL, DSC/DC, DSR/DR, DSL/DL?
500
When one of the designers has an idea, these individuals are in charge of making the ideas come to life on stage.
Who are the Design Crew?
500
This is where an actor would be if he or she crossed from the furthest center area away from the audience, to the closest area to the audience, took a 90 degree turn to his or her right, crossed all the way to that side of the stage, and into this area on every stage and part of where set's and costumes are kept. This area is not view-able to the audience.
What are the wings and backstage?
500
Onstage, this is the area to the audience's left.
What is the Stage Right?
500
This person works closely with the Costume Designer to make sure their design matches with the clothing/ character looks.
Who is the Makeup Designer?
500
As people, we use both of these things in our daily communication, so we should include them in our characterization in order to create "three-dimensional" characters.