Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assist with bump in and preparation of venues
- In consultation with relevant personnel, update production documentation after final rehearsal room run
- Prior to first public performance, create and affix audience advisory signage as required
- Assist with transfer to stage of spike marks for scenic elements and furniture
- Set up cast and backstage areas, display production information on company noticeboard, and organise sign-in sheets
- Participate in plotting sessions, including set changes and ‘walking in’ place of performers, for the purpose of plotting lighting
- Ensure entrances and exits from stage are unobstructed
- Mark level changes on and off set to assist performers to safely navigate away from drop-offs and potential trip hazards
- Assist with safety briefing and backstage orientation for performers and crew
- Monitor preparations and anticipate and resolve problems that could disrupt performances
- Assist with technical and dress rehearsals
- Provide crew with documentation from rehearsal for input by them during technical and dress rehearsals
- Assist with safety rehearsals and integration of technical elements into potentially hazardous sequences
- Follow own setting and running documentation from rehearsal, and adjust to incorporate additional responsibilities
- Facilitate communication between stage manager and those personnel without communications equipment
- Provide assistance to stage manager, creative personnel and others as required
- Following rehearsals, take and put into action notes from stage manager, director or other personnel regarding additional responsibilities and ways to improve own performance
- Develop own set-up, performance and post-show routine, as well as supporting documentation relating to experience with technical and dress rehearsals
- Assist with performances
- Assist with on-stage and backstage pre-set of performance elements as required
- Prepare consumable props in line with production requirements
- Collect and secure valuables and distribute personal props
- Provide stage management assistance during performances
- Use initiative within scope of job to deal effectively with unforeseen occurrences
- After performances, strike and secure valuable props and weapons, collect personal props, and return valuables to cast members as required
- Assist with cleaning and maintaining stage and backstage areas
- Contribute to performance reports and distribute them promptly with other information to relevant personnel
- Build trust and respect through effective use of communication skills
- Assist with bump out of productions
- Assist with packing props and other materials and equipment for move to storage, tour or disposal
- Organise the return of borrowed and hired items according to loan agreements
- Assist with cleaning and returning stage, backstage and green room areas to original condition
- Remove front of house advisory signage, posters and other material as required