About this role
Hs Stage Manager – 4 points
• Trains and manages the stage crew (high school helpers)
• Assign roles for scene changes, moving scenery, and setting pieces for rehearsals and performances.
• Assign a prop manager to assist with prop tracking and placement.
• Assign an assistant stage manager.
• Facilitates communication between creative, technical, and acting teams.
• Manages set pieces being made for safety /sizing/ placement.
• Spike the set for rehearsals and performances (taping floor plan/ blocked scenes/ prop placement)
• Manages the movement backstage.
• Creates the Scene Synopsis to be posted backstage.
• Troubleshoots any situations that arise backstage.
• Keeps notes of all blocking and technical cues in order to assist with running rehearsals when director/ assistant director is not available
• Coordinates and communicates with parent volunteers who volunteer backstage (costume quick changes, cast/ ensemble chaperones, hair and makeup assistance, scene change set movement)