Actors Circle has many production positions available every year for volunteers who have theatrical production experience and are interested in working as a designer or manager on a production.

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​​Stage Manager 

Responsibilities may include:​

• Provides practical and organizational support to the director, actors, designers, technicians and stage crew throughout the production process.

• Attends production meetings.

• Works side-by-side with the director recording the director’s decisions about blocking and notes for the actors.

• Keeps the prompt book. The prompt book is a copy of the script which records all blocking, plus all the light, sound and set change cues. This enables the Stage Manager to run tech rehearsals.

• Keeps a production calendar which includes rehearsals, builds, lighting load-ins and hangs, prop acquisition and costume fittings.

• Notifies the designers of any changes made by the director.

• Coordinates set changes for a production.

• Supervises stage crew and actors during a production

• May call cues

• Starts the show after consultation with the house manager likewise after intermission.​​​​

​​Lighting Designer

Responsibilities may include:

• ​Collaborates with Director on establishing a lighting design

• Collaborates with Director, set and Costume Designer on a color palette

• Creates a lighting plot, ground and elevation plan

• Creates cue sheets

• Attends production meetings

• Attends rehearsals

• Coordinates rental of additional lighting equipment.

• Coordinates the number of lights and circuits and allocates cabling, gels, and other accessories

• Manages load-in, lighting hang, lighting focus, level set, dress rehearsals, etc.

• Works within the production budget

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​​ Set Designer

Responsibilities may include:​​​

• Collaborates with director and other designers.

• Attends production meetings.

• Provides sketches and floor plans of their design for the director’s approval before the building of the set begins.

• Works with director to create a build schedule around the rehearsal schedule.

• Determines how and where Actors Circle’s current stock of set pieces can be used to create the set and if the purchase of more lumber is required.

• Supervises the building, painting and dressing of the set and the volunteers on these respective crews.

• Works within the production budget

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Sound Designer

Responsibilities may include:

Collaborates with the director and the design team.

• Attends production meetings.

• Creates a sound plot in accordance with both the script and any additions required by the director.

• Attends rehearsals

• Creates the sound and music cues.

• Sets necessary volume of both sound effects and music for the production.

• Marks all sound cues in script.

• Runs the sound for the production.

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Costume Designer

Responsibilities may include:

• Collaborates with director to learn their vision for the production and the exact number of characters needing costumes, including extras and actors who are double cast.

• Attends design team meetings and production meetings

• Provides sketches if the director requires them

• Creates costume plot.

• Identifies potential costume challenges.

• Takes cast measurements

• Will provide two costume fittings for all actors.

• Acquires costumes by pulling from stock, altering existing garments, using actor’s own wardrobe or building the costumes.

• Supervises costume crew volunteers.

• Works within the production budget.

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​Wardrobe Assistant works backstage during every performance and makes sure that every aspect of the production runs just as the designer intended, time after time, until the production closes. The wardrobe assistant may be responsible for coordinating and/or assisting with quick costume changes. They check the inventory of all costumes at the end of each performance and notify the Wardrobe Manager of any necessary repairs or cleaning.

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​Props Manager

Responsibilities may include:

• Collaborates with the director and designers as to the nature of all hand props for the production.

• Collaborates with the director to determine what props are required for the production.

• Designs and secures all properties needed for each character in a show.

• Assists Set Designer with set dressing if necessary.

• Provides (if necessary) rehearsal props to be used as final props are being made, purchased or rented.

• Creates the prop table.

• Works with the stage manager to coordinate the movement of props throughout the production.

• Strikes all props at the end of the production, storing them properly at Actors Circle or retuning them if they have been rented or borrowed.

• Works within the production budget.

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