Theatre Roles and Responsibilities Quiz

My job is to create the overall vision for the show

• Producer

• Director

• Designer

• Actor

My job is to run the show from back stage, calling cues to the booth and making sure everyone is doing their jobs.

• Stage hand

• Director

• Techie

• Stage Manager

I usually invest my own money into the show, and if the show does well, I'll take a percentage of the profits.

• Director

• Designer

• Producer

• Stage hand

My job in the theatre is to embody the show's characters.

• Actor

• Designer

• Producer

• Techie

Whose job is it (usually) to change stage furniture during blackouts?

• Stage hands

• Producer

• Designer

• Stage Manager

If an emergency situation occurs on set, whose job is it to make sure that the situation gets fixed?

• Producer

• Director

• Stage Manager

• Actor

True or false- actors are responsible for checking their props before a show.

• True

• False

True or False: the stage manager should do safety checks to make sure that everything on the set and backstage is safe and running properly.

• True

• False

As an actor, if something falls on the set during a show, what should you do?

• Ignore it

• Yell for a stagehand to come and deal with it

• Pick it up

• Kick it under a table

As an actor, if a lighting or sound cue is noticeably wrong, what should you do?

• Improvise and try to cover it

• Loudly laugh and wink at the audience

• Ignore it and pretend it didn't happen

• Wave to get the stage manager's attention