Performing Arts

Employees in the Performing Arts entertain audiences either in live appearances or in recorded or broadcast presentations. The Performing Arts include music, drama, dance, standup comedy, and motion pictures. Workers who support performances behind the scenes—such as screenwriters, composers, choreographers, directors, stagehands, makeup artists, and others—are included in the Performing Arts field.
Learning About the Stage and Auditions | Artopia
Learning About the Stage and Auditions | Artopia

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Learning About the Stage: The Green Room where actors wait to go onstage, or rest between scenes. Why is it called a Green Room? Apparently no one really knows, although there are several theories...
Music Entrepreneurship Program | Carolina Money

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More and more, music schools and institutes are incorporating entrepreneurship classes, organizations, clubs, seminars and workshops into their programs. Why is that? In order to explore the truth...
Lighting Designer  | Kids Work!
Lighting Designer | Kids Work!

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The Lighting Designer creates the stage lighting for the performance. Students will play the role of a lighting designer to understand that the lighting designer creates stage lighting for...
Playwright | Kids Work!
Playwright | Kids Work!

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A Playwright writes a play that is performed by actors on a stage. Students will understand the components that make up a script including characters, background, setting, acts, and scenes. This...
Inside a Proscenium Theater | Kids Work!
Inside a Proscenium Theater | Kids Work!

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Students will connect schoolwork with real work as they explore a virtual representation of a theater with specific work areas labeled and defined. The diagram is a proscenium theater, a traditional...
Actor | Kids Work!

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What is an Actor? The actor portrays a character emotionally and physically by using his or her voice, facial expressions and body movements. Under the advisement of the director, the actor reads the...
Wardrobe Supervisor | Kids Work!

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What is a Wardrobe Supervisor? The wardrobe supervisor selects and fits costumes for cast members according to the types of characters to be portrayed. Depending on the size of the show, the wardrobe...