Actors

Actors typically perform the following tasks: • Collaborate with other actors as part of an ensemble. • Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements, to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences. • Work closely with directors, other actors, and playwrights to find the interpretation most suited to the role. • Perform humorous and serious interpretations of emotions, actions, and situations, using body movements, facial expressions, and gestures. • Study and rehearse roles from scripts to interpret, learn and memorize lines, stunts, and cues as directed. • Learn about characters in scripts and their relationships to each other to develop role interpretations. • Attend auditions and casting calls to audition for roles. • Sing or dance during dramatic or comedic performances. • Work with other crew members responsible for lighting, costumes, make-up, and props. • Tell jokes, perform comic dances, songs and skits, impersonate mannerisms and voices of others, contort face, and use other devices to amuse audiences. • Read from scripts or books to narrate action or to inform or entertain audiences, utilizing few or no stage props. • Promote productions using means such as interviews about plays or movies. • Prepare and perform action stunts for motion picture, television, or stage productions. • Write original or adapted material for dramas, comedies, puppet shows, narration, or other performances. • Introduce performances and performers to stimulate excitement and coordinate smooth transition of acts during events. • Dress in comical clown costumes and makeup, and perform comedy routines to entertain audiences. • Construct puppets and ventriloquist dummies, and sew accessory clothing, using hand tools and machines. • Perform original and stock tricks of illusion to entertain and mystify audiences, occasionally including audience members as participants.