Techie Dictionary
1. Un-important nobody who speaks nonsense in front of admirable sets.
2. Mindless, zombile like people who blindly follow the director's commands. Their success is 99% determined by the Techies.
Actor Proofing:
Making your set, props, costumes, etc, able to survive the blatant disrespect and misuse that an actor will give it. An actor will break it if it can be broken, lose it if it can't, trip on it if it is minding it's own business.
Black:
Every techie's favorite color.
Catwalk:
The hottest place on earth, it is to the Techie what the Batcave was to Batman.
Cherry Coke:
The Holy Water of Tech Crew.
Director:
Wise, powerful person who is also caring and understanding.
Duct Tape:
1. A type of tape that can fix almost anything.
2. Tape which leaves a gooky, next to impossible to remove residue on XLR cables.
Freshmen:
Ye who sweep the stage. (a.k.a. Frosh).
Gaffer Tape:
The best type of tape ever made. There is nothing it can't do (except fix a broken heart ;) ).
Headset:
1. The true sign of power.
2. A piece of equipment used by techies to communicate about the play during the performance.
3. A piece of equipment used by techies to complain about actors in the play during the performance
Lowes/ACE Hardware:
Heaven.
Impossible:
ERROR Sorry, not in this vocabulary (please reboot the computer)
Light Booth:
Where the cool kids hang out.
Light Crew:
Without them you just can't see nothing, trust me, I know.
Makita:
In terms of screwdrivers, drills, saws, etc; the best power tool known to tech.
Mistake:
1. Anything the audience can see during the performance that shouldn't be seen.
2. When the director notices something "wrong" with a techie's work
Mountain Dew:
The Holy Water of Tech Crew.
Paint:1. A substance that is applied to various things to change the color.
2. What actors use for face paint.
Paint Brush:
1. A tool used to apply paint. It comes in many different sizes.
2. What actors use to apply paint to their faces.
Play:
A bunch of cool looking sets that people admire but their admiration is hampered by a group of un-important nobodies talking nonsense in front of them.
Prop or Property:
Something that an actor uses during the play, usually found by a techie.
Set:
The world the techies build for actors to live in during the run of a show.
Stage Crew:
There ain't no show without ‘em.
Stage Managers:
The most advanced techies.
Strike:
Techie's revenge.
Techie:
The under-appreciated, over-worked, behind-the-scenes workers of the play.
Technical Director:
The head techie who has control over all the other techies.
Techtor:
A person who possesses both the skills of an actor and a techie. Few exist.