Controls money/funding by finding sponsors for the play. May also be responsible for marketing. Scheduling. Finds venues. Castings.
Production Manager
Ensures that all aspects of the play are completed within budget and in accordance with the designer's and director's vision. Oversees cost effectiveness of the entire production. Duties may include obtaining rights, deciding date and venue, forming the production team, attending production meetings, scheduling rehearsals, locating venues, rehearsal preparations, managing accounts.
Tech Manager
The tech manager combines technical expertise with health & safety knowledge. They supervise the get in, the get out and fit ups, as well as designing, budgeting and solving any problems that arise. They will often go on to become production managers.
Company Stage Manager
Combination of the stage manager and the company manager. Supervises the get in, any publicity meetings about the show, payrolls, time-sheets, call-sheets, prop sourcing, wardrobe maintenance,
Typical progression: Assistant Stage Manager -> Stage Manager -> Deputy Stage Manager -> Company Manager or Production Manager
Director
The director brings the cast together and guides the play in a particular direction. They are responsible for taking the initial script to the stage using their own creative vision. During rehearsals they work with the actors to develop their roles. They also work with designers to fulfill their vision of what the show should look like.
Designers
Deputy Stage Manager
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Dramaturg
Artistic and theatrical mediator that edits text and sculpts performance pieces.
Makes sure art and artists come together. Makes theatrical sense. Makes sure everything fits.
Does the setting make sense in the context of the play. Makes sure drama follows artistic directors vision.
Does the style of acting make sense in this play?
Dramaturgy = dramatic structure. How the dramatic elements interact with each other and come together. Lighting, staging, setting, acting, style. Combination of all of those things is the dramaturgy
Performers
Perform in the play
playwright
Front of house
Caters, greets,
Artistic Director.
Responsible for selection and interpretation of the works being performed in a theatre
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