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O*NET detailed work activityEntertain public with comedic or dramatic performances
Stays humanBe there for people
3 jobs10 tasks
This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.
Part of Present arts or entertainment performances, under the O*NET work activity group Performing for or Working Directly with the Public. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 10 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements, to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences.
- Perform humorous and serious interpretations of emotions, actions, and situations, using body movements, facial expressions, and gestures.
- Read from scripts or books to narrate action or to inform or entertain audiences, utilizing few or no stage props.
- Perform in productions, singing or acting in addition to dancing, if required.
- Sing or dance during dramatic or comedic performances.
- Tell jokes, perform comic dances, songs and skits, impersonate mannerisms and voices of others, contort face, and use other devices to amuse audiences.
- Prepare and perform action stunts for motion picture, television, or stage productions.
- Provide entertainment at special events by performing activities such as drawing cartoons.
- Dress in comical clown costumes and makeup, and perform comedy routines to entertain audiences.
- Perform original and stock tricks of illusion to entertain and mystify audiences, occasionally including audience members as participants.