1. NEA- acronym for National Endowment for Arts
2. Composer- A musician who creates the score for the production
3. Charge artist- the supervisor of the scene painting crew
4. Farce- A play that makes you laugh a lot and leaves you feeling liberated by the wildly anarchi and improbable things that happen
5. Control booth- a small booth, usually located at the back of the auditorium, where the stage manager and the sound and light board operator work during the performance
6. Kabuki- a highly stylized of Japanese theatre
7. Nut- slang term for the weekly operating costs of a commercial theatre production
8. Playbill- the printed program distributed to the audience at the performance; it's contains information about the play and the artists
9. Trap room-a room beneath the stage floor from which scenery and actors can rise to the stage through a trap door
10. Proskene- a platform attached to the front of the scene in Ancient Greek theaters on which actors stood