pab -19TH oct Theatre company structure

Today we looked at theatre company structures, creating a mind map of the hiearchy of the job roles. Below is a mindmap of our theatre company 'Livambrykim', and it's structure:

Short description of roles:

CEO - Manages theatre, oversees the planning of theatre's programmes and overall responsible for finances, staff and building. They report to the theatre's owners/trustees

Producer - finds money to finance show and manages financial risks. They find the performers and team for the show

Artistic Director - They create the artistic vision of the production, usually directing productions. They report instructions to the stage manager

Production Team - Co-ordinate the technical and staging necessities of a show. They will work with the artistic director, director, musical director, choreographer and engineering team

Finance - Managing financial aspects, ensuring it's smooth running

Company Manager - Deals with all aspects of staff's welfare and dealing with pay. 

Marketing Manager - Promotes and sells tickets. Manage publicity and advertising material inc. flyers, posters, brochures, websites etc.

Stage Manager - coordinating and organizing the production and communications between various personell

Set Construction - Creating and building set pieces

Props Construction - Creating and building props

Makeup Artsist - Doing performers' makeup 

Hair Stylist - Doing performers' hair

Sound/lighting technician - Controlling and operating sound and lights

Costume creator - Creating costumes

Set Designer - Designing the set, reporting to set constructors

Lighting Designer - Organising lighting, reporting to Lighting technician

Sound designer - Organising sound, reporting to Sound Technician

Then, we worked in partners to begin putting together a power point presentation where we discuss 2 different theatre companies, in which we include:

1) Production staff structure/key roles (hierarchy table)
2)shows output - how many productions annually? What genre/style of pieces? audience numbers? Permant co or auditioned roles?
3)Focus on 2 job roles

Me and Paige are focusing on the 'National Theatre' company, and the 'Rainbow company'. We individually would work on one of the companies to gather up information.