Production Staff Position Definitions
Director Types
Producer:
- Responsible for and oversees entire production
- Handles all budgetary matters.
- Oversees all publicity matters.
- Acts as liason between group and various theatre staff
- Makes sure all other staff members are doing their jobs
Director:
- Responsible for actor selection, directiong of stage action, consults with designers for realization of the concept of the production.
- Oversees all aspects of production to keep them in line with the concept
- Delegates authority to assistand Directior as sees fit.
- Responsible to the Producer
Assistant Director:
Music Director:
Responsible for rehearsing singers, for proper musical interpretation of score.
- May or may not conduct pit orchestra
- Meets with Director. often to discuss interpretation of score.
- Responsiible to Producer
Choreographer:
- Responsible for staging all dance pieces in a production
- Responible to Director.
Stage Manager:
- Takes blocking notes, set and prop position notes, cue placement notes.
- Incorporates all notes into prompt script.
- Makes up and posts rehearsal schedules, photo calls, etc.
- Inspects theatre each evening before show for condition of house, safety equipment, etc.
- Takes direct responsibility of the show upon opening.
- Enforces director's.blocking and staging.
- Makes scene shift diagrams for prop placement.
- Posts scene by scene schedule for actors' entrances, exits, etc.
- Calls the show, calls all cues, all set changes, all actor calls, bows.
- Maintains phone lists of key personnel and actors emergency numbers.
- Phones late actors.
- Supervises collection of valuables from dressing rooms each night.
- Makes sure theatre is struck properly and returned to original state, including dressing room areas.
- Signs out scripts, scores, libretti, and collects same at end of show.
- Delegates resopnsibilities to Assistand Stage Manager
- Responsible to Director and Producer
Designer Types
Scenic Designer
:
- Meets with Director and discusses design concepts for production, usually several week or months in advance.
- Reads script thoroughly and does preliminary sketches.
- After further discussion with Director finalizes drawings.
- Draws a scale groundplan, section and elevations of the scenery.
- Does painter's elevations and renderings.
- Discusses set with Technical Director as to materials to be used, desired visual effects, special effects, etc.
- Revises accordingly.
- Keeps a close check on the progress of the set construction.
- May or may not actually build the set.
- Responsible for all painting done on the set.
- Supervises final placement changes at load-in with Director
- All through the design process, meets with the other designers and discusses color, texture, form, etc.
Lighting Designer
- Much the same process as Scenic Designer, though later in the game.
- Designs the lighting in accordance with what the other designers have done and with the Director's wishes.
- Selects types of instruments to be used, positiong, of coloring.
- Draws the Light Plot
- Supervises the focusing of the lights
- Sets the light cues for each scene with the Director.
Costume designer
- Many similar elemts as above.
- Designs look of costumes after meeting with Director.
- Makes color renderings of costume designs for Director's approval
- Revises as neccessary.
- Specifies materials to be used in construction
- Provides fabric swatches to lighting and scenic designers.
- Supervises and is responsible for the fitting of costumes and general constuction.
All Design positions are assigned by the Producer and are answerable to same.
Technical Types
Technical Director
- Takes elevations from Scenic Designer and produces working (construction) drawings to build the set.
- Specifies materials to be used (after discussing with Scenic Designer), dimensions, special hardware, etc.
- Checks constuction for Safety
- Enforces fire and electrical safety codes.
- Orders all construction materials
- Maintains scenery budget
- Supervises load-in and strike
- Ensures that shop and theatre are clean and returned to original state after production closes.
- Delegates reponsibilities to assistant (when applicable)
- Resposible to Producer
Property Master
- Maintains prop lists as dictated by script and Director
- Procures said props for rehearsal and production
- Adapts or builds special props
- Maintains prop budget
- Returns all borrowed props
- Ensures the return and proper storage of stock props
- Supervises prop tables during show
- Locks up or otherwise ensures the security of all props at conclusion of each show.
- Secures personal props from dressing rooms.
- Prepares food for onstage use
- Shops for consumables during run
- Responsible for care and clean-up of live animals whin in theatre
- Resopnsible to Technical Director, Scenic Designer, and Producer
Master Electrician
- Runs lighting console during technical rehearsals and all shows
- Supervises light hang and focus.
- With the Stage Manager runs an instrument check each night before the show's opening
- Replaces burned out lamps
- Maintains cue sheets for running the show
- Takes cues from Stage manager during run of show
- Supervises strike of electric equipment from set and from theatre.
Last modified: Wed Aug 8 23:36:36 2007