1. Interviews of Staff In Half Moon
Theatre
Question:
1. What are the skills needed for your career?
2. What personal and Qualities and
Qualifications are needed for your career?
3. How do you manage your time?
4. Can you describe a typical day activities?
5. Can you tell me about the most interesting
aspect of your career?
6. What are the ad/disadvantages of your
career?
7. What advice would you give any teenagers
who want to work in the area of your carer?

2. Name: Jackie Eley
Administrator Director
1. The skills needed are: to know accounting, to
understand how to raise money from diverse
people (business, charity, children need,
individual people…) to understand marketing
and press. To be well organised.
2. Useful to have a degree in anything. To be
organised. To be able to multitasked.
3. Have a work diary and record of all necessary
things.
4. Fundraising for a project, researched on
marketing and find useful information on
accountant?
5. The show, the product and the end product.
6. Disadvantage is that the job is not well paid.
Advantage
is that the people are lovely.
7. My advice is that they should study hard, go to
university. To be ready for competition and to
get any job in the theatre industries.

3. Name: Rachel Lions
Development and Marketing Manager
1. Multitasked- to have a good attention to details-
write well, writes for different type of people.
2. Degree is needed qualification is not relevant. To
have additional courses. Very friendly. Good
with communicating. To be flexible.
3. Record all daily activity or record activity in
advance.
4. E flyers, making it on Tuesday and sending it on
Wednesday. Getting someone to monitor and
manage. Monitoring sales. Checking sales.
Checking tickets for shows. Collect statistic.
Collecting information.
5. Getting article of quite famous people on paper.
Creating leaflet.
6. Advantage- it’s interesting, not competitive.
Disadvantage – not very well paid.
7. Get a lot of experience. To highlight job
description. To show all your strongest point in
your applications.

4. Name: Sunny Acraman
Training Tutor
1. Acting skills, communication people skills, ICT
skills, and business skills.
2. Btec National diploma. Good sense of humour
well mannered. Polite. Great people skills
3. Diary and Phone
4. Come to the theatre, report to Amy. Business
Stuff. Calling people. Updating database. Doing
workshops. Theatre group.
5. Communicating with different people. Getting to
learn and gathering new skills.
6. Advantages- seeing children growing up and
participate in programmes. Meeting new people.
Mixing up task. Disadvantage- loosing track of
time. Low paid.
7. Never give up.

5. Name: Amy Jones
Project Manager
1. Really organised- to handle project well-
strong communication skills- verb
communication skills-have good attention to
details.
2. Have interests attention to detail. Very well
organised. Calm. Positive. Caring. Work
experience in theatre. Have GCSE or a level in
theatre. Degree in theatre in studies.
3. To be aware of deadline.
4. Helping and meeting groups. Putting a
newsletter. Putting invitations. Marketing
materials. Invoices. Managing voices. Contract
running. Evaluation. Project planning.
Schedule.
5. Fun job working with children. All jobs were
gain with experience. Being a project manager
6. Advantage- fun. Interesting. Disadvantage-
competitions for this area of job. Badly paid
7. Get work experience. Volunteer. And stand
out where ever you go.

6. Name: Harry Nepier
Performer
1. Competent on a rage of instrument. High
skills on one instrument. Strong voice.
Confident skills in singing to variety of
audiences. Know how to keep people
interested. Be energetic.
2. Music degree-vocally strong. Good at
reading Shakespeare. Enthusiasm for
working in a team. Love telling stories.
Engaging audience.
3. Having time to rehearse lines. Like to be one
step ahead.
4. Practicing instrument and lines.
5. Working in a team to produce good show.
6. Disadvantage- started acting quite late.
Advantage- very well trained musician. And
it’s very useful in theatre.
7. To have passion in one particular
instrument.

7. Name: Jenny Rogers
Administrative assistant and front of house
supervisor
1. Communicate with people in a form of a
friendly matter. To be confident. To be
well organised. To be skilled in inserting
information on the computer.
2. History in degree. Like communicating.
Friendly. Hard working. Like working
individually.
3. Mix time. Be sensible and embrace
yourself. Have a list on what you have to
do.
4. Being a PA with another member of staff.
Book people in for shows. Supervising the
box office.
5. After university – wanted to be an office
base – like schedule but nut physical.
6. Advantage-early in the career. Staff
members are very friendly. Disadvantage-
it’s a small team, a lot of work to do.
Nowhere nice to have food. Transport.
Low paid.
7. Try to get job. Interact. Try to work in a
team. Get a lot of experience.

8. Name: Tamzan Palmer
Stage Manager
1. Organization. Time keeping. Good people skills.
Good practical skills.
2. Drama degree- stage management in diploma.
Cheerful, easy going. Calm. Relaxed. Have sense
of humour.
3. Depends on schedule of the show. Like taking
notes. Making sure everything is in place.
4. Making notes. Very discipline.
5. Working with different people. And being in
different places. Different performances.
6. Advantages- Exciting. Entertaining. Different
things to do everyday. Disadvantage- long hours
by yourself. Physical work. Badly paid.
7. Help out in youth theatre. Go to see different
places. But don’t do it forever.

9. Name: Chris Lewis
Director of company
1. Managing Skills. Business planning.
Organisation. Understanding of education. Make
or write plays.
2. A degree- a diploma MA. Theatre education.
Training for roles. Two postgraduates and
undergraduate qualification. Flexible. Clear.
Nurturing. Patient. Hard working. Take control.
Lead example.
3. Look ahead in the whole week.
4. Making a play. Prepare for the play. Research.
Making prop work with the actors. Help with
overall performance.
5. Love working in half moon theatre. Enjoy.
Passionate about the work. Love being a teacher
years ago
6. Disadvantage- low paid, not glamorous.
Advantage-a pleasure.
7. Be ambitious of what you want to do. Recognised
and learn different skills. Look up to people.
Meet new people. Be confident and have passion.

10. Name: Fred Beaufort
Production manger
1. Good sense of organisation. Good at
communicating. Good at coordinating. To turn
ideas into actions. How to build scenery.
2. Theatre courses. Degree in technical theatre.
Learnt about lighting. Sense of creativity. Good
at problem solving.
3. Planning to get the best of the best in advance.
4. Technical rehearsals. Set and performers on
stage. Put element together. Finding problems in
the lighting and solving them.
5. Meeting people. Working In new project.
Theatre is live like the atmosphere.
6. Advantage- communicating with people.
Creative work. Disadvantage- low paid. Long
hours. Not enough recourse available.
7. Embrace yourself with different experiences.
Never say yes if you can get it right.