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Elizabethan theater companies consisted of a few share holders who's funds would carry the company. Their investments funded expenses, plays, licenses to perform, costumes (often cast downs from patrons), and the wages of hired players to play minor roles, boy apprentices, a bookholder (performance manager who held the only complete copy of the play and called cues), stagekeepers (stage hands), a tiring house manager (stage manager of props, costumes, and stagekeepers), and a business manager who would be one of the share holders. (From cjarcher.com) Actors often moved between the companies unless they were one of the lead actors or shareholders.
You can read more about the parts of Elizabethan stage craft here:
https://cjarcher.com/cjs-books/lord-hawkesburys-players-series/elizabethan-players/
