prompter
Prompters prompt or cue performers when they forget their lines or neglect to move to the right position on the stage.
prompter prompters prompt or cue performers when they forget their lines or neglect to move to the right position on the stage. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include theatre techniques, rehearse role, read scripts, analyse theatre texts, develop drama production process.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £45,534 a year for Arts officers, producers and directors (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 3416). ONS rates this estimate reasonably precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Technicians and associate professionals” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only prompter, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 3. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Fine Arts
- English Language
- Communications and Media
- Sociology and Anthropology
- Psychology
- Customer and Personal Service
- Sales and Marketing
- Education and Training
What you'd actually do
- Collaborate with other actors as part of an ensemble.
- Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements, to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences.
- Work closely with directors, other actors, and playwrights to find the interpretation most suited to the role.
- Perform humorous and serious interpretations of emotions, actions, and situations, using body movements, facial expressions, and gestures.
- Study and rehearse roles from scripts to interpret, learn and memorize lines, stunts, and cues as directed.
- Learn about characters in scripts and their relationships to each other to develop role interpretations.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does prompter do?
Prompters prompt or cue performers when they forget their lines or neglect to move to the right position on the stage.
What skills does prompter need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include theatre techniques, rehearse role, read scripts, analyse theatre texts, develop drama production process, study roles from scripts. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace prompter?
Our AI-durability model gives prompter a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.