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Plan and supervise the creation of the costumes and outfits worn by characters in a play or opera.
Costume Designer
The lights simply go out leaving the theatre dark while the sets are being changed or the dancers are preparing for the next piece. It also helps the audience know when a scene is ending.
Blackout
Responsible for the design, installation, and operation of the lighting and special electrical effects used in the production.
Lighting Designer
The ability to use your voice loudly, powerfully, and clearly while acting, singing, or speaking
Vocal Projection
A convention that imagines a wall existing between actors and their audience. The wall is invisible to the audience, so viewers can see the performance, but opaque to the actors, blocking them from the audience.
Fourth Wall
Creates the dance elements in a play or musical, and often teaches them to actors, singers, and dancers.
Choreographer
The time that all actors and crew are expected to be at the theater.
Call Time
A short performance given by an actor, dancer, or musician so that a director or conductor can decide if they are good enough to be in a play or musical
Audition
The appearance of one or more performers on stage after a performance to acknowledge the audience's applause.
Curtain Call
The director would like to see an actor again, perhaps to hear them read from the script or see them next to another actor. Receiving one does not guarantee you a part in the show, and not receiving one doesn't necessarily mean you won't be cast.
Call Back
Form of theatrical staging in which the acting area, which may be raised or at floor level, is completely surrounded by the audience.
Theatre in the Round
Professionals work backstage during performances to keep the show running smoothly and safely
Crew
A written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people
Dialogue
The story that has been written for actors to perform
Script
Group of actors that make up the characters in a play or musical
Cast
An actor or cast who has memorized their lines
Off Book
Something another performer says or does that is a signal for them to begin speaking, playing, or doing something
Cue
A set of public performances of a theatrical production that take place before its official opening.
Previews
Any object used in a performance that isn't part of the set or worn by an actor.
Props
What the character wants or what their goals are
Objectives
The frame or arch separating the stage from the auditorium, through which the action of a play is viewed, the audience is all seated in front of the stage
Proscenium Stage
The creation of the physical space in which the action of a performed event takes place.
Set
The activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found.
Improv
Moment by moment acting units in a play
Beat
A stage that extends into the auditorium so that the audience is seated around three sides
Thrust Stage