Occupation Atlasassistant stage director
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e1106f6d-81fc-44f8-af94-8b7d2763065c
assistant stage director
Assistant stage directors support the needs of the stage director and the production for each assigned stage production, and serve as a liaison between performers, theatre staff and stage directors. They take notes, provide feedback, coordinate the rehearsal schedule, take blocking, rehearse or review scenes, prepare or distribute actor notes, and facilitate communication between designers, production staff, and stage director.
Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
AECArtistic · Enterprising · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- A Artistic6.14
- E Enterprising5.78
- C Conventional3.56
- S Social3.12
- I Investigative2.24
- R Realistic2.13
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Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Producers and Directors (27-2012.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (11)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adapt to artists' creative demands
- analyse the artistic concept based on stage actions
- art-historical values
- find a replacement for stage manager
- liaise between theatre direction and design team
- maintain a production book
- maintain blocking notes
- read scripts
- supervise script preparation
- understand artistic concepts
- use communication techniques
Optional (12)
O*NET equivalents
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