Great question! It’s sort of both the playwright and the stage managers’ responsibility. Technically, the stage manager is responsible for maintaining the prompt book, which includes “accurate playing text” or something like that (I am paraphrasing). But the playwright is the one responsible for actually making the changes, obviously. Typically it’s just a conversation between the SM team and the playwright, some playwrights are happy to hand off the responsibility, others want to keep control of their script so they update it. On major projects (broadway, etc) there might be a “Script PA” who is a member of the stage management team who’s whole job (or primary job) is to maintain the script and track/distribute changes and new pages. So, like everything, the answer is “it depends”!

So glad it was helpful!!!

Hi! For these, I just did an approximation in PowerPoint with shapes and outlines. But for real shows, I get a PDF copy from the production manager (usually ask for any text and annotations to be removed) and convert to JPEG online!

Break legs!! Have a great show and a smooth process! Thank you so much for watching :)

Have so much fun!! Break legs!

So glad it’s helpful! Definitely cannot take credit for the idea of typing out a script, that’s long been a practice in some SM circles!