Job Description:

• 1) Portrays role in dramatic production to interpret character or present characterization to audience: Rehearses part to learn lines and cues as directed.

• 2) Interprets serious or comic role by speech, gesture, and body movement to entertain or inform audience for stage, motion picture, television, radio, or other media production.

• 3) May write or adapt own material.

• 4) May dance and sing.

• 5) May direct self and others in production.

• 6) May read from script or book, utilizing minimum number of stage properties and relying mainly on changes of voice and inflection to hold audience's attention and be designated Dramatic Reader.

• 7) May be designated according to gender of worker or type of role portrayed as Actress; Character Actor; Character Actress; Ingenue; Juvenile.