Prepared by:

Nikko L. Pacanas

•a poster, pamphlet, or flier that advertises a stage play.

Easy Steps in Making a Palybill

Characters,

Director/s,

Writer/s,

Musical

Director/s, Date

and Place of the

Performance

and People to

be thanked

All plays have

themes.

Whether it's

cowboys,

detectives,

hippies, or

stars, it'll be the

base of the

designing

process.

This is usually 4

pages of design

fitted onto 1 piece of

paper. The front and

back covers on one

side, which will be

the outside of the

playbill, and the

thank you's and cast

page on the other

side, which will be

the inside of the

The beginning is

sometimes the

easiest if you have

a lot of ideas, but

you want to start

out with the

simplest and

easiest of pages to

get you into the

mood. This page is

the Back Cover, or

the Autographs

Page.

This is by far the most

complicated page. It

seems easy enough at

first, sure, but it is

deceitful. You forget

names, characters,

misspell names. Some

people like their name

spelled a certain way,

and sometimes people

drop out. The extras

are constantly

changing all while

you're trying to make

more room on the

Find out who you

have to thank.

Usually, you thank

the actors,

choreographers,

technical crew, the

director and co-

director, the place

which you are

performing in, the

place you practiced

in (which sometimes

is the same place you

The Front

Cover

requires

creativity,

and it's

likely to

stump you.

Put in one

page all of

the works

you done.