Lead Actor

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Job Summary

Responsible for portraying a role in production to interpret character or present characterization to the audience. Must read scripts, take cues, and rehearse with others when preparing for and acting out a role.

Primary Responsibilities

1. Interpret serious or comic roles by speech, gesture, and body movement to entertain or inform the audience for stage, motion picture, television, radio, or other media.
2. Rehearse and memorize lines.
3. Entertain, convey characters, and express emotions in front of a live audience.
4. Take cues from the director.
5. Use body language and movement to bring out character.
6. Interpret the work of a writer under the instruction and support of a director.
7. Improvise the reactions of a character to a situation.
8. Work in live stage performances of the classics and community theatre, soap operas, radio work, and film parts.
9. Pre...