[[stage_manager]]
If you have questions about set designing then please feel free to call or email Drew or Allison.
From the PW Show Packet: Stage Manager Job Description
- Attends all rehearsals
- MAKES SURE THAT ALL EXTERIOR DOORS TO PW AS WELL AS INTERIOR DOORS ARE LOCKED
- Has the keys to PW and should be in charge of opening and locking PW before and after earch rehearsal
- Keeps SM’s bok with blocking notes, sound and electrics cues, etc.
- Serves as the director-cast liason for schedualing and other day-to-day business
- Responsible for calling actors, copying, keeping the director on shcedule, etc.
- Should write up daily “Rehearsal Reports”
- A rehearsal report contains the following: what happened in rehearsal today, prop notes, set notes, costume notes, lighting notes, sound notes, what else is needed and the plan for the next day’s rehearsal
- Responsible for the condition (i.e. cleaning up) of the rehearsal space
- Responsible for running the cue-to-cue tech rehearsals (dry and wet) and dress rehearsals as well as calling the show each night
- Makes or delegates a pre-show check of props, costumes, moving senic elements, etc
- Should have knowledge of where the first aid kit is (i.e. in the box office across from the downstairs space and in the Shop)and make sure it is fully stocked. If empty contact your bozo and the board will fill it
- Should be on book to give lines and blocking to actors who are off book
- Takes out the trash in the downstairs space
- Gives actors pre=show calls including “one-hour,” “half-hour,” “fifteen,” “ten,” “five,” and “places.”
- Responsible, in conjunction with the PW House Manager on any given night, for the condition of the house. Each night the space should be swept and discarded programs should be picked up.
- Responsible for flirting with director and actors.