Theatre Company Roles Quiz

Who oversees scenic, electrics, props, and sound?

• Stage Manager

• Technical Director

• Production Manager

• Lighting Designer

What are the three categories for theatre company roles?

• Actors, Directors, Producers

• Performers, Technicians, Administrators

• Writers, Designers, Managers

• Artists, Production, Business

True or False: A house manager manages all ticket sales.

• True

• False

Who writes the script for the play?

• The director

• The playwright

• The actor

• The producer

True or False: The master electrician prepares for and oversees the execution of the hanging and focusing of lighting instruments for the show.

• True

• False

Fill in the blank: A fight director creates all _________________ for a production.

• Violence

• Costumes

• Lighting

• Music

Fill in the blanks: Artistic jobs ________________ ideas. The production jobs ________________ those ideas. Business jobs provide the framework that allow those ideas _______ _________ _______________.

• Create, implement, to be shared

• Destroy, ignore, to be hidden

• Complicate, confuse, to be lost

• Simplify, neglect, to be forgotten

True or False: Ushers work with the company manager.

• True

• False

Fill in the blanks: A director __________ the script and __________ the production.

• Analyses, guides

• Writes, directs

• Ignores, disrupts

• Reviews, manages

Fill in the blank: A __________ carpenter is the head carpenter in a set shop.

• Master

• Apprentice

• Journeyman

• Assistant