The person charged with all audience issues from seating and program distribution to start time for the show to assisting patrons with physical impairments.
House Manager
100
This person facilitates the aural elements of a production including sound effects, musical underscoring, and augmentation of spoken lines.
What is Sound Board Operator
100
Person who overlooks the execution of a production. This person acts as the go-between for the director, the performers, and the entire production staff.
What is Stage Manager
100
Head of the technical areas, including set construction, lighting and sound, and cost-effectiveness; involved in all stages of production from planning to closing night and strike.
Any individual, group, or institution that controls the business side of a production.
What is the Producer
200
Facilitates the lighting for a production.
What is Light Board Operator
200
A specialist who assists in a production by training actors in how to use weapons without getting hurt.
What is Fight Director
200
A person charged with particular responsibility of an area in the set construction of a production; answers to shop supervisors
What is Shop Forman?
200
Intensity, Direction, Spread, Color, Movement
What is Qualities of Lighting Design
300
A member of the producing team who is in charge of finances and budgetary concerns.
What is the Managing Director
300
Crew responsible for presetting most objects handled by actors during a performance.
What is Props Run Crew
300
A specialist who assists in a production by training the actors to speak with an accent.
What is Dialect Coach
300
Usually the senior carpenter the most skilled of the team constructing scenery or props; answers to the shop foreman.
What is the Master Carpenter
300
Straight, Corrective, Age, Character, Stylization
What are the Categories of Makeup Design
400
The link between the production and the general public: department in charge of generating attendance through advertising and other means.
What is Public Relations/Promotion
400
Supervises the changing of the scenery, props, and furniture during a performance.
What is Key Grip
400
A specialist who assists in a production by training actors in period (back in the day) dance, or how to sit properly in a hoop skirt.
What is Movement Coach
400
Focuses instruments during light hang/focus.
What is Electrics Crew?
400
Line, Mass, Color, Texture
What are the basic Design Ingredients (Elements of Design)?
500
The people who agree to experience the enactment with the actors; one of the four elements of Theatre.
What is the audience.
500
Helps performers with quick changes (changing of costumes in 2 min or less).
What is Dresser.
500
A member of the production team, skilled in research and analysis, who helps actors, designers, and directors better understand the particulars of the play.
What is Dramaturg
500
Supervises Electrics Crew.
What is Master Electrician?
500
A space designated by an agreement between audience and performance as a theatre