The Deputy Stage Manager is a role which is often left unfilled on smaller
shows. When a DSM is used, they do one of two jobs.
Sometimes it can be the DSM who calls the
show - that is, they give the
lighting operator and/or
sound engineer, along with anyone else who needs them, their
cues. Often, when doing this job, the DSM will be in the
proj box.
The other job that the DSM can have is to
organise what is going on in the
wings, on the opposite side from the
stage manager. In this case, it is a matter of the DSM just being
second-in-command to the
stage manager, and the
stage manager delegating some of his job to the DSM.
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