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Stage Manager
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Assistant Stage Manager
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The stage manager is responsible to the producer and director.
Duties:
- Consults with the producer on the selection of assistant stage managers
- Attends all production meetings
- Auditions:
- Coordinates auditions with producer and director
- Prepares audition sides
- Preparation:
- Prepares lists and forms for distribution to the actors
- Prepares a preliminarily list of props
- Tapes out the set on the rehearsal hall floor
- Prepares the green room area
- Rehearsals:
- Ensures rehearsal space is safe and useable
- Ensures that rehearsal space is set up with props and set pieces for beginning of rehearsal
- Maintains a neat, orderly and easily understandable prompt book Chore
- Tech Week:
- Organizes cue to cue and all technical rehearsals
- Responsible for calling all cues
- Oversees all backstage activities
- Ensures the show is running smoothly
- After Opening:
- Responsible for maintaining the director’s vision throughout the run
- Oversees the entire show each time it is performed
- All production personnel and actors report to the stage manager
- Prepares and distributes performance reports
- Health and Safety:
- Ensures first aid kit is stocked
- Liaises with front of house, calling fire/ambulance/police in case of emergency
- Responsible for evacuation of actors and crew in case of emergency
- Works closely with the director, producer and actors
The assistant stage manager is responsible to the Stage Manager and Director.
An assistant stage manager should be assigned specific stage management tasks under the supervision
of the stage manager. For example, in rehearsal the assistant stage manager may be responsible for
assisting with paperwork, prompting, and the rehearsal props preset; during production, the assistant
stage manager may coordinate backstage traffic while the stage manager is in the booth. In emergency
situations, the assistant stage manager’s familiarity with the play makes them an ideal pinch- hitter
for lighting or sound operators.
The assistant stage manager should not be expected to conduct rehearsals or call a show, except in
Extreme emergencies. Be clear about delegated tasks and resist the temptation of using the assistant
stage manager as a production’s “gopher.”
Technical Director
The technical director is responsible to the producer and director.
Duties:
- Organizes and costs technical needs of the show — materials for the set, lights, costume materials and
rentals, sound equipment and props
- Supervises, coordinates and balances technical needs of the director, designers and department heads
- Manages and directs the crew and technicians up to the final dress rehearsal
- Attends production meetings
- Attends first rehearsal
- Attends other rehearsals as available
- Attends cue- to- cue rehearsal
- Supervises load- in and set- up,
- Attends technical- only rehearsals, technical rehearsals, dress rehearsals
- Works within a budget
- Follows Health and Safety requirements