This theatre professional reads and evaluates scripts, acting as a liaison between playwrights, agents, and the theatre. This person often writes grant
... [Show More] applications to help support new play development and stage readings of new plays. - correct answer Literary Manager
This theatre professional financially backs the theatre or orchestrates funding through grant money and ticket sales. - correct answer producer
This theatre professional is in charge of the overall creative vision or goal of the ensemble. This person will often choose which plays to produce, who will direct them, and who will design them. - correct answer Artistic Director
This theatre professional not only runs the show during the performance but also helps the director throughout the rehearsal process by taking notes, recording blocking, scheduling rehearsals, and assisting during auditions. - correct answer stage manager
Which of the following is not true of a "rehearsal report"? - correct answer It is written by the director.
This theatre professional supervises the construction crews, as well deals with the designers' drawings, paintings, blueprints, scale models, and sketches. - correct answer Technical Director
This theatre professional designs, builds or purchases all the objects the actors handle while on stage, such as pens, fans, cigars, and umbrellas. - correct answer Prop Master
This theatre professional designs and records various effects that range from synthesized rhythms and pre-show music, to the noises of the onstage doorbell or offstage ambulance sirens. - correct answer Sound Designer
This theatre professional often uses a computer to aid in creating the stage elements that make up the physical appearance of the stage. - correct answer Set Designer
Producing a large-scale production, such as a musical, may include which of the following theatre professionals? - correct answer Musical Director, Choreographer, Fight Director
(T/F) The duties of the dramaturg may include acting as a literary advisor or serving as the expert in theatre history who helps the director understand specifics about a play's performance history. - correct answer True
A theatre's ____________________, written by the artistic director, declares in clear and concise terms the theatre's purpose and key objectives. It can also state what type of theatre is to be produced—from comedies and classics to thought-provoking, socially relevant plays or perhaps even new plays by up-and-coming playwrights. - correct answer mission statement
This department of the theatre company promotes the plays, which might include setting up an interview with the director at the local radio station or arranging times for actors to tour area schools as a part of the theatre's outreach program. - correct answer Publicity department
The time the actors arrive at the theatre is known as their ____________________, and the time the play starts is called ____________________. - correct answer call / curtain [Show Less]