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theatre director A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...

s, living and dead, who have been active in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Arabic Speaking

Fouad Awad Fouad Awad (born October 7, 1956; Arabic: فؤاد عوض; Hebrew: פואד עווד) is an avant-garde Israeli-Palestinian theatre director, and a prominent figure in the Palestinian theatrical movement. Biography Awad was born on October 7, 19 ...

* Mohammed Al Shanfari

Belarusian Speaking

Ihnat Bujnicki Ihnat Bujnicki (also known as ''Ignat Buynitsky'', ; 22 August 1861 – 22 September 1917) was an actor and theatre director, described as “the father of the Belarusian theatre”. He was also actively involved in various charitable and microfi ...

Mikalai Khalezin Mikalai Mikalayevič Khalezin ( be, Мікалай Мікалаевіч Халезін; russian: Николай Николаевич Халезин — Nikolay Nikolayevich Khalezin; born 30 March 1964, Minsk, Belarusian SSR, USSR) is a Belarusian ...

Bengali speaking

Montazur Rahman Akbar Montazur Rahman Akbar is a Bangladeshi film director, screenwriter, producer, social activist and entrepreneur. He is known for his work in the Bengali-language film industry, which is centered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Akbar also fought in the ...

Debesh Chattopadhyay Debesh Chattopadhyay (also Chatterjee) is an Indian Bengali film & theatre director and actor. He has also acted in a few Bengali films. Career Chattopadhyay is associated with theatre since 1984. At that time he was 18 years old. In 1989 ...

Utpal Dutta Utpal Dutta () (29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little The ...

Goutam Halder Goutam Halder is an Indian theatre actor and director from Kolkata. He has a graduate degree from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary (V.C.) College, Rahara. Theater career Goutam Halder was a member of the theatre group Nandikar and perf ...

Manoj Mitra Manoj Mitra (born 22 December 1938) is an Indian theatre, film and television actor, director and playwright. Early life Mitra was born on 22 December 1938 in Dhulihar village of Satkhira, Khulna, Bangladesh. Initially he used to study at home ...

* Shambhu Mitra *

Mamunur Rashid Mamunur Rashid (born 29 February 1948) is a Bangladeshi actor, director and scriptwriter. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2012 and Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1982 by the Government of Bangladesh. Early life and education Rashid was born o ...

* Badal Sarkar *

Bratya Basu Bratyabrata Basu Roy Chowdhury (born 25 September 1969),Bratya Basu(collected plays), Ananda Publishers, 2004 also known as Bratya Basu, is an Indian actor, stage director, playwright, film director, professor and a politician who is serving a ...

Chinese speaking

Jiao Juyin Jiao may refer to: *Horn (Chinese constellation), or Jiao (角宿), a Chinese constellation *Jiaolong, or Jiao (蛟), a Chinese dragon *Jiao (currency) (角), a unit of currency in China, one-tenth of a Chinese yuan or dollar *Jiao (surname) (� ...

Li Liuyi Li Liuyi () is a Chinese director and playwright of Beijing People's Art Theatre. His theory "Pure Drama" and his related exploration in the field are known as "Li Liuyi Methodology", which is widely acclaimed and researched. Japanese modern theat ...

Wang Chong Wang Chong (; 27 – c. 97 AD), courtesy name Zhongren (仲任), was a Chinese astronomer, meteorologist, naturalist, philosopher, and writer active during the Han Dynasty. He developed a rational, secular, naturalistic and mechanistic account ...

English speaking

George Abbott George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theatre producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned eight decades. Early years Abbott was born in Forestville, New Yo ...

Maria Aitken Maria Penelope Katharine Aitken (born 12 September 1945) is an English theatre director, teacher, actress, and writer. Early life and career Aitken was born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the daughter of William Aitken (politician), ...

JoAnne Akalaitis JoAnne Akalaitis (born June 29, 1937, in Cicero, Illinois) is an avant-garde Lithuanian-American theatre director and writer. She won five Obie Awards for direction (and sustained achievement) and was founder in 1970 of the critically acclaimed M ...

* Franco Ambriz *

Threes Anna Threes Anna (pseudonym of Threes Schreurs, born in Vlaardingen, The Netherlands, 1959) is a novelist, theatre and film maker. Biography Threes Anna is trained as a visual artist. In 1985, Anna was engaged in theatre company Dogtroep, specialize ...

Libby Appel Libby Appel (born May 14, 1937) served as the fourth artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) from 1995 to June 2007. Appel directed more than 25 productions at OSF, and her artistic vision influenced the 11 plays presented each ...

Steven Atkinson Steven Atkinson (born 4 May 1984) is a British producer working in theatre and film. He co-founded and led HighTide, one of the UK's theatre companies, as well as the National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England. Atkinson has commiss ...

Lucy Bailey Lucy is an English feminine given name derived from the Latin masculine given name Lucius with the meaning ''as of light'' (''born at dawn or daylight'', maybe also ''shiny'', or ''of light complexion''). Alternative spellings are Luci, Luce, Luci ...

Dominic Barber Dominic Anthony Barber (21 July 1955 – 9 May 2003) was an English theatre director. Biography Barber trained at Dartington College of Arts. In 1979, aged 24 and early in his career, he became an outspoken advocate of arts council funding ...

* Neil Bartlett * John Barton *

Emjo Basshe Emjo Basshe (born Emmanuel Iode Abarbanel Basshe or Emanuel Joseph Jochelman; January 20, 1898 – October 29, 1939) was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American playwright of Spanish ancestry and theatre director who co-founded New York City's New P ...

Julian Beck Julian Beck (May 31, 1925 – September 14, 1985) was an American actor, stage director, poet, and painter. He is best known for co-founding and directing The Living Theatre, as well as his role as Reverend Henry Kane, the malevolent preacher i ...

Paul Berman Paul Lawrence Berman (born 1949) is an American writer on politics and literature. His books include ''Terror and Liberalism'' ( a ''New York Times'' best-seller in 2003), ''The Flight of the Intellectuals'', ''A Tale of Two Utopias'', ''Power and ...

* David Berthold *

Etel Billig Etel Billig (December 16, 1932 – March 28, 2012) was an American actress and director; her career spanned more than 60 years. She founded Illinois Theatre Center (ITC) in 1976 with her husband, Steven. For more than three decades she appeared ...

* Anne Bogart *

Lee Breuer Esser Leopold Breuer (February 6, 1937 – January 3, 2021) was an American playwright, theater director, academic, educator, filmmaker, poet, and lyricist. Breuer taught and directed on six continents. Career Breuer was a founding co-artistic ...

Mark Brokaw Mark Brokaw is an American theatre director. He won the Drama Desk Award, Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award as Outstanding Director of a Play for ''How I Learned to Drive''. Life and career Brokaw was raised in Aledo, Illinois, and graduated fr ...

Peter Brook Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022) was an English theatre and film director. He worked first in England, from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from 1947 at the Royal Opera House, and from 1962 for the Royal Shak ...

Robert Brustein Robert Sanford Brustein (born April 21, 1927) is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator. He founded both the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Ma ...

* Hazel Joan Bryant *

Betty Burstall Betty Margaret Burstall (born Betty Margaret Rogers 4 February 192614 June 2013) was an Australian theatre director who founded the La Mama Theatre in Melbourne in 1967. Burstall and her theatre are credited with leading the growth of contempor ...

Simon Callow Simon Phillip Hugh Callow (born 15 June 1949) is an English film, television and voice actor, director, narrator and writer. He was twice nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his roles in ''A Room with a View (1985 ...

Annie Castledine Ann "Annie" Castledine (26 February 1939 – 4 June 2016), was a British theatre director, teacher and dramaturg. Described in ''The Guardian'' as "one of the arts world's best-known secrets" who "shaped some of the most influential players in B ...

Joseph Chaikin Joseph Chaikin (September 16, 1935 – June 22, 2003) was an American theatre director, actor, playwright, and pedagogue. Early life and education The youngest of five children, Chaikin was born to a poor Jewish family living in the Borough Pa ...

Rachel Chavkin Rachel Chavkin (; born July 20, 1980) is an American stage director best known for directing the musicals '' Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812'' and ''Hadestown,'' receiving nominations for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical f ...

Ping Chong Ping may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book '' The Story about Ping'', first published in 1933 * Ping, a minor character in ''Seinfeld'', an NBC sitcom * Ping, a c ...

Harold Clurman Harold Edgar Clurman (September 18, 1901 – September 9, 1980) was an American theatre director and drama critic. In 2003, he was named one of the most influential figures in U.S. theater by PBS.

Victor Correia Victor Correia (born 12 January 1985) is a Guinean former professional footballer who played as a secondary striker. He made four appearances scoring once for the Guinea national team between 2005 and 2008. Career Correia was born in Bissau, G ...

* Edward Gordon Craig *

James Dacre James Charles Dacre (born May 1984) is a British theatre director. He has been artistic director of Royal & Derngate Theatres in Northampton since 2013. Early years James Dacre was born in 1984, the son of Paul Dacre, former editor of the '' ...

* Howard Davies *

Ian Dickens Ian Dickens (born 1962, in Nottingham) is a former actor and is now a theatrical producer and director, the founder of Ian Dickens Productions. In recent years Dickens has been directing a number of plays under the name ID Plays Limited touring t ...

Marcia Milgrom Dodge Marcia Milgrom Dodge is an American director, Choreographer and stage writer. After working in regional theatre, Dodge directed and choreographed her first Broadway production, a revival of ''Ragtime'' in 2009. The production received four Helen ...

* Declan Donnellan *

Mehmet Ergen Mehmet Ergen is a Turkish theatre director, producer and entrepreneur, currently based in London Borough of Hackney. Biography After completing a nine-month acting course in Turkey, Mehmet decided to become a director. He put an ad in ''The Sta ...

* Gale Edwards *

Tim Etchells Tim Etchells (born 1962) is an English artist and writer based in Sheffield and London. Etchells is the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, an experimental performance company founded in 1984. He has published several works of fiction, ...

Joel Fink Joel G. Fink is an American actor, director, acting coach and theatre administrator. He is Professor Emeritus of Theatre, The Theatre Conservatory of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he also served ...

Richard Foreman Richard Foreman (born June 10, 1937 in New York City) is an American avant-garde playwright and the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Achievements and awards Foreman has written, directed and designed over fifty of his own plays, b ...

* Bob Fosse * Bob Frith *

Frank Galati Frank Joseph Galati (November 29, 1943 – January 2, 2023) was an American director, writer, and actor. He was a member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company and an associate director at Goodman Theatre. He taught at Northwestern University for many ...

Patrick Garland Patrick Ewart Garland (10 April 1935 – 19 April 2013) was a British director, writer and actor. Career Garland was educated at St Mary's College, Southampton, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he studied English and was Literary Editor of Isi ...

Joel Gersmann Joel Gersmann (August 26, 1942 – June 24, 2005) was an American playwright of experimental theatre. During his 35 years as artistic director at Broom Street Theater, Gersmann was fearless in the subject matter of his plays, with no regard to th ...

John Gielgud Sir Arthur John Gielgud, (; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the Briti ...

Katie Mitchell Katrina Jane Mitchell (born 23 September 1964) is an English theatre director. Life and career Mitchell was born in Reading, Berkshire, raised in Hermitage, Berkshire, and educated at Oakham School. Upon leaving Oakham, she went up to Magda ...

* Andre Gregory *

Tyrone Guthrie Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (2 July 1900 – 15 May 1971) was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at his ...

* Peter Hall *

Marcia Haufrecht Marcia Haufrecht is an American actress, playwright and director, as well as a noted acting teacher and coach. A life member of The Actors Studio, and a longtime member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre, she is also the founder and artistic direc ...

Jeremy Herrin Jeremy Herrin is an English theatre director. He is the artistic director of Headlong Theatre. Career Having trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Herrin was an assistant director ...

Jack Hofsiss John Bernard Hofsiss (September 28, 1950 – September 13, 2016) was an American theatre, film, and television director. He received a Tony Award for his direction of ''The Elephant Man'' on Broadway, the youngest director to have ever received ...

Michael Howard Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne (born Michael Hecht; 7 July 1941) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He previously held cabinet posi ...

Sophie Hunter Sophie Irene Hunter (born 16 March 1978) is an English theatre director, playwright and former actress and singer. She made her directorial debut in 2007 co-directing the experimental play ''The Terrific Electric'' at the Barbican Pit after her ...

John Jesurun John Jesurun is a writer, director and multi-media artist, based in New York City. His work ''Chang in a Void Moon'' is a live serial running since 1983, originally at the Pyramid Club in the East Village and now less frequently at venues worl ...

* Michael Kahn *

Robert Kalfin Robert Zangwill Kalfin (April 22, 1933 – September 20, 2022) was an American stage director and producer who has worked on and off Broadway and at regional theaters throughout the country. He was a former artistic director of the Cincinnati Pl ...

Helena Kaut-Howson Helena Kaut-Howson is a British theatre director. Early life and education Helena Kaut-Howson was born (as Helena Kaut) in 1940 in Lviv, which was then in Poland. She grew up in Wrocław, Poland. Her training as a director was first at the Po ...

Elia Kazan Elia Kazan (; born Elias Kazantzoglou ( el, Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου); September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by ''The New York Times'' as "one o ...

Patrick Kinmonth Patrick Charles Kinmonth (born 27 August 1957) is an Anglo-Irish opera director and designer, filmmaker, writer, painter, interior designer, art editor, creative director and curator. He is known for his many stage, costume, interior and archit ...

* Jim Knipple *

Jan Kott Jan Kott (October 27, 1914 – December 22, 2001) was a Polish political activist, critic and theoretician of the theatre. A leading proponent of Stalinism in Poland for nearly a decade after the Soviet takeover, Kott renounced his Communist P ...

Wayne Lamb Michael "Wayne" Lamb (October 24, 1920 – June 5, 2001) was a Broadway dancer, choreographer, theatre director and professor of dance. Beginnings in Kansas Lamb was born in Centerville, Kansas and attended the University of Wichita and the U ...

Tina Landau Tina Landau (born May 21, 1962) is an American playwright and theatre director. Known for her large-scale, musical, and ensemble-driven work, Landau's productions have appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally, most extensively at the ...

James Lapine James Elliot Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for ''Into the Woods'', ''Falsettos'', and '' Passion''. He ha ...

Charles Laughton Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was a British actor. He was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a play with his future w ...

Eddie Lawrence Eddie Lawrence (born Lawrence Eisler; March 2, 1919 – March 25, 2014) was an American monologist, actor, singer, lyricist, playwright, artist, director and television personality, whose comic creation, the Old Philosopher, gained him a devoted ...

Walter Learning Walter John Learning (November 16, 1938 – January 5, 2020) was a Canadian theatre director, actor, and founder of Theatre New Brunswick. Biography Walter Learning was born in 1938 in the small village of Quidi Vidi in the Dominion of Newfound ...

Elizabeth LeCompte Elizabeth LeCompte (born April 28, 1944) is an American director of experimental theater, dance, and media. A founding member of The Wooster Group, she has directed that ensemble since its emergence in the late 1970s.Mitter, Shomit, and Maria Shev ...

Robert Lepage Robert Lepage (born December 12, 1957) is a Canadian playwright, actor, film director, and stage director. Early life Lepage was raised in Quebec City. At age five, he was diagnosed with a rare form of alopecia, which caused complete hair lo ...

* Robert Lewis *

Tom Littler Tom Littler is a British theatre director and the Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London. He was the founder of theatre company Primavera Productions, a former Associate Director of Theatre503 formerly Artistic Director ...

Clare Lizzimore Clare Lizzimore (born 1980) is a British theatre director and writer. Her production of 'Bull' by Mike Bartlett, won 'Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre' at the 2015 Olivier Awards. Lizzimore has been resident director at the Citize ...

Phyllida Lloyd Phyllida Christian Lloyd, (born 17 June 1957) is an English film director and producer, best known for '' Mamma Mia!'' (2008) and '' The Iron Lady'' (2011). Her theatre work includes directing productions at the Royal Court Theatre and Royal N ...

Joshua Logan Joshua Lockwood Logan III (October 5, 1908 – July 12, 1988) was an American director, writer, and actor. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing the musical '' South Pacific'' and was involved in writing other musicals. Early years Logan ...

Sidney Lumet Sidney Arthur Lumet ( ; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American film director. He was nominated five times for the Academy Award: four for Best Director for ''12 Angry Men'' (1957), ''Dog Day Afternoon'' (1975), ''Network'' (1976), ...

Rosie Malek-Yonan Rosie Malek-Yonan (b. July 4, 1965) is an Assyrian-American actress, author, director, public figure and activist. Malek-Yonan became a noted pianist at an early age. Having graduated from the University of Cambridge, she settled in the United ...

Judith Malina Judith Malina (June 4, 1926 – April 10, 2015) was a German-born American actress, director and writer. With her husband, Julian Beck, Malina co-founded The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York C ...

Joe Mantello Joseph Mantello (born December 27, 1962) is an American actor and director known for his work on Broadway productions of ''Wicked'', '' Take Me Out'', and ''Assassins'', having gained notoriety in the 1993 cast of ''Angels in America''. Early li ...

Kathleen Marshall Kathleen Marshall (born September 28, 1962) is an American director, choreographer, and creative consultant. Life and career Born in Madison, Wisconsin, she graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1980 and S ...

Rob Marshall Robert Doyle Marshall Jr.http://www.alumni.cmu.edu/s/1410/images/editor_documents/alumnirelations/getinvolved/alumniawards/all_honorees_2018june1.pdf (born October 17, 1960) is an American film and theater director, producer, and choreographer. ...

Jackie Maxwell Jackie Maxwell (born 1956) is an Irish-born Canadian theatre director and dramaturge. She was the artistic director of the Shaw Festival from 2002 to 2016. Early life and education Maxwell was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her mother was ...

* Richard Maxwell * Michael Mayer *

Brad Mays Brad Mays (born May 30, 1955) is an independent filmmaker and stage director, living and working in Los Angeles, California. Background and education Mays was raised in the Edinburg section of West Windsor Township, New Jersey, attending the ...

* Des McAnuff *

Simon McBurney Simon Montagu McBurney (born 25 August 1957) is an English actor, playwright, and theatrical director. He is the founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité, London. He has had roles in the films ''The Manchurian Candidate'', ...

Guthrie McClintic Guthrie McClintic (August 6, 1893 – October 29, 1961) was an American theatre director, film director, and producer based in New York. Life and career McClintic was born in Seattle, attended Washington University and New York's American Academ ...

Sam Mendes Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was Knight Bachelor, knighted in the 2020 New Year Honour ...

* Jorge Merced *

Worthington Miner Worthington Miner (November 13, 1900 – December 11, 1982) was an American film producer, screenwriter, actor and director. He was married to actress Frances Fuller, with whom he had three children, including producer/director Peter Miner. He w ...

* Neil Munro * Stephen Murphy *

Christopher Newton Christopher Newton (11 June 1936 – 20 December 2021) was a Canadian director and actor, who served as artistic director of the Shaw Festival from 1980 to 2002. Early life and education Newton was born in Deal, Kent, England and educated at ...

Mike Nichols Mike Nichols (born Michael Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theater director, producer, actor, and comedian. He was noted for his ability to work across a range of genres and for his aptitude fo ...

Trevor Nunn Sir Trevor Robert Nunn (born 14 January 1940) is a British theatre director. He has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed dramas f ...

Laurence Olivier Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the Theatre of the U ...

Diane Paulus Diane Marie Paulus (born 1966) is an American theater and opera director who is currently the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University.Colleen Walsh"Paulus reaches beyond boards" ''Harvar ...

Ralph Pena Ralph (pronounced ; or ,) is a male given name of English, Scottish and Irish origin, derived from the Old English ''Rædwulf'' and Radulf, cognate with the Old Norse ''Raðulfr'' (''rað'' "counsel" and ''ulfr'' "wolf"). The most common forms ...

Robin Phillips Robin Phillips OC (28 February 1940 – 25 July 2015) was an English actor and film director. Life He was born in Haslemere, Surrey in 1940 to Ellen Anne (née Barfoot) and James William Phillips. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic, where a c ...

Steven Pimlott Steven Charles Pimlott (18 April 1953 – 14 February 2007) was an English opera and theatre director, whose obituary in ''The Times'' hailed him as "one of the most versatile and inventive theatre directors of his generation". His output ran the ...

Hal Prince Harold Smith Prince (born Harold Smith; January 30, 1928 – July 31, 2019), commonly known as Hal Prince, was an American theatre director and producer known for his work in musical theatre. One of the foremost figures in 20th century America ...

José Quintero José Benjamín Quintero (15 October 1924 – 26 February 1999) was a Panamanian theatre director, producer and pedagogue best known for his interpretations of the works of Eugene O'Neill. Biography Early years Quintero was born in Panama C ...

* Agustin Reyes *

Lloyd Richards Lloyd George Richards (June 29, 1919 – June 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American theatre director, actor, and dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1991, and Yale University professor emeritus. Biography Richards was born in Toront ...

*Martin Ritt *Hannah Ryan *Mark Rylance *Samantha Saltzman *Kate Saxon *Franklin Schaffner *Richard Schechner *Jay Scheib *Peter Schumann *Michael Scott (artistic director), Michael Scott *Peter Sellars *Andrei Şerban *Stephen Shank *Nathaniel Shaw (director), Nathaniel Shaw *Hassard Short *Leigh Silverman *Jeanmarie Simpson *Max Stafford-Clark *Susan Stroman *Rebecca Taichman *Julie Taymor *Tazewell Thompson *Sidney Toler *Ilana Ransom Toeplitz *Russell Treyz *Craig Walker (writer), Craig Walker *Sam Wanamaker *Matthew Warchus *Douglas Turner Ward *Deborah Warner *David Warren (director), David Warren *Orson Welles *James Whale *Bart Whiteman *Kate Whoriskey *Robert Wilson (director), Robert Wilson *Lee Wochner *George C. Wolfe *Robert Woodruff (director), Robert Woodruff *Mary Zimmerman

Filipino speaking

*Daisy Avellana *Lamberto V. Avellana *Joel Lamangan *Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo *Severino Montano *Mario O'Hara *

*Freddie Santos *Rolando Tinio

French speaking

* Jean Anouilh * André Antoine * Antonin Artaud * Jean Louis Barrault * Gaston Baty * Patrice Chéreau * Jean Cocteau * Armand Eloi * Jean Giraudoux * Louis Jouvet *

* Lugné-Poe * Ariane Mnouchkine * Jeanne Moreau * Roger Planchon * Jacques Rivette * Jerome Savary * Stephen Shank * Jean Vilar

German speaking

* Ruth Berghaus * Benno Besson * Bertolt Brecht * Hans Bunge * Frank Castorf * Dieter Dorn * Erich Engel * August Everding * Walter Felsenstein * Gotz Friedrich * Jens-Daniel Herzog * Leopold Jessner * Fritz Kortner * Harry Kupfer * Thomas Ostermeier * Martin Kušej (bilingual German/Slovenian) * Peter Lund * Erwin Piscator * Max Reinhardt (theatre director), Max Reinhardt * Peter Stein (director), Peter Stein * Karl Heinz Stroux * Heinz Tietjen * Nike Wagner * Wieland Wagner * Wolfgang Wagner * Peter Zadek

Hindi speaking

*Ebrahim Alkazi *Shamim Azad *Ram Gopal Bajaj *Manish Joshi Bismil *Satyadev Dubey *Arvind Gaur *Bharatendu Harishchandra *Safdar Hashmi *Rohini Hattangadi *Prithviraj Kapoor *B.V. Karanth *Mohan Maharishi *Prasanna (theatre director), Prasanna *B.M. Shah *Om Shivpuri *Habib Tanvir *Ratan Thiyam *Bansi Kaul

Italian speaking

* Giorgio Albertazzi * Eugenio Barba * Orazio Costa * Eduardo De Filippo * Dario Fo * Paolo Grassi * Glauco Mauri * Renzo Ricci * Luca Ronconi * Guido Salvini (director), Guido Salvini * Maurizio Scaparro * Luigi Squarzina * Giorgio Strehler * Aldo Trionfo * Luchino Visconti * Franco Zeffirelli

Lithuanian speaking

* Dalia Ibelhauptaitė * Oskaras Koršunovas * Eimuntas Nekrošius * Juozas Miltinis * Rimas Tuminas * Jonas Vaitkus * Adolfas Večerskis

Nepali speaking

* Anup Baral * Hari Prasad Rimal * Khagendra Lamichhane * Sunil Pokharel

Norwegian speaking

* Tore Vagn Lid * Stein Winge

Persian speaking

* Bahram Beyzai * Hamid Samandarian * Ali Nassirian

Polish speaking

*Erwin Axer *Richard Boleslavsky *Kazimierz Dejmek *Jerzy Fedorowicz *Jerzy Grotowski *Adam Hanuszkiewicz *Stefan Jaracz *Krzysztof Jasiński *Tadeusz Kantor *Jerzy Markuszewski *Stanisława Perzanowska *Barbara Sass *Leon Schiller *Ludwik Solski *Włodzimierz Staniewski *Józef Szajna *Arnold Szyfman *Mariusz Treliński *Andrzej Wajda *Michał Zadara *Lidia Zamkow *Krzysztof Zanussi *Zbigniew Zapasiewicz *Aleksander Zelwerowicz *Feliks Żukowski

Portuguese speaking

*Augusto Boal *Sergio Britto (actor), Sergio Britto *Luis Miguel Cintra *João Garcia Miguel *Jorge Listopad *Gerald Thomas (theatre director), Gerald Thomas

Russian speaking

*Nikolay Akimov *Yevgeny Aryeh *Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko *Lev Dodin *Anatoly Efros *Kama Ginkas *Yuri Lyubimov *Alexandre Marine *Vsevolod Meyerhold *Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko *Nikolai Okhlopkov *Lev Shekhtman *Konstantin Stanislavsky *Alexander Tairov *Georgy Tovstonogov *Yevgeny Vakhtangov *Anatoly Vasiliev *Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov *Yury Zavadsky

Serbo-Croatian speaking

*Nebojša Bradić *Goran Gajić *Branko Gavella *Gradimir Gojer *Zorica Jevremović *Siniša Kovačević *Sulejman Kupusović *Velimir Živojinović Massuka *Dejan Miladinović *Ognjenka Milićević *Branislav Nušić *Vida Ognjenović *Tanja Miletić Oručević *Haris Pašović *Katja Restović *Zijah Sokolović *Mira Trailović *Mirjana Vukomanović *Milenko Zablaćanski *Stevo Žigon

Spanish speaking

* Calixto Bieito * Alejandra Boero * Antonio Cunill Cabanellas * Orestes Caviglia * Armando Discépolo * Nuria Espert * Carlos Gandolfo * Victor Garcia (director), Victor Garcia * Juan Carlos Gené * Antonio Larreta * Jorge Lavelli * Inda Ledesma * Cecilio Madanes * Jorge Merced * Fanny Mikey *

* Jesusa Rodríguez * José Tamayo * Margarita Xirgu * China Zorrilla

Slovak speaking

* Juraj Nvota * Roman Polák

Swedish speaking

* Lars Amble * Ingmar Bergman * Hugo Hansén * Olof Molander * Stig Olin * Peter Oskarson * Albert Ranft * Alf Sjöberg

Multilingual

(Arabic, Hebrew, English) *Lucien Bourjeily (Arabic, French, English) *Chandradasan (English, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil) *Mario Kovač (artist), Mario Kovač (Croatian, English, Italian) *Roberto Paci Dalò (English, Italian, German, French, Chinese) *Stephen Shank (English, French) *Mihai Timofti (English, French, Italian, Romanian, Russia) *Rajesh Vedprakash (English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu)

Other

*Lilia Abadjieva (Bulgarian) *Kemal Başar (Turkish) *Stancho Stanchev (Bulgarian)

References

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