This is a list of theatre directors. A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ...

20th- and 21st-century English-language theatre directors

• George Abbott
• JoAnne Akalaitis
• Franco Ambriz
• Neil Bartlett
• John Barton
• Julian Beck
• David Berthold
• Anne Bogart
• Peter Brook
• Lee Breuer
• Mark Brokaw
• John Capo
• Joseph Chaikin
• Harold Clurman
• Edward Gordon Craig
• Howard Davies
• Declan Donnellan
• Bernie Dove
• Kim Durban
• Gale Edwards
• Rowland G. Edwards
• Freddie Eldrett
• Tim Etchells
• Richard Foreman
• Bob Fosse
• Frank Galati
• Patrick Garland
• Philip Gilbert
• Andre Gregory
• Tyrone Guthrie
• Peter Hall
• Jack Hofsiss
• Angus Jackson
• John Jesurun
• Kelly Johnston
• Michael Kahn
• Elia Kazan
• James Lapine
• Katie Laris
• Walter Learning
• Elizabeth LeCompte
• Robert Lepage
• Robert Lewis
• Phyllida Lloyd
• Joshua Logan
• Rosie Malek-Yonan
• Judith Malina
• Joe Mantello
• Rob Marshall
• Jackie Maxwell
• Richard Maxwell
• Simon McBurney
• Sam Mendes
• Adam Mitchell
• Carmen Maria Milito
• Neil Munro
• Christopher Newton
• Mike Nichols
• Trevor Nunn
• Steven Pimlott
• Hal Prince
• Jeff Puukka
• José Quintero
• Martin Ritt
• Lloyd Richards
• Mark Rylance
• Michael Scott
• Peter Sellars
• Heronimo Sehmi
• Andrei Şerban
• Jim Simpson
• Max Stafford-Clark
• Julie Taymor
• Tazewell Thompson
• Darko Tresnjak
• Craig Walker
• Sam Wanamaker
• David Warren
• Matthew Warchus
• Deborah Warner
• Orson Welles
• Bart Whiteman
• Lee Wochner
• George C. Wolfe
• Robert Woodruff
• Mary Zimmerman

George Abbott (June 25, 1887 - January 31, 1995) was a theatre producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than seven decades. ... Theatre director and writer JoAnne Akalaitis is the winner of five Obie Awards for direction (and sustained achievement) and founder of the critically acclaimed Mabou Mines in New York. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... (born [1958]) is one of Britains most renowned and innovative theatre artists. ... Julian Beck (May 31, 1925–September 14, 1985) was an American actor, director, poet, and painter. ... David Berthold is a leading Australian theatre director. ... Anne Bogart is an American director of theatre. ... Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH CBE (born 21 March 1925) is a highly influential British theatrical producer and director. ... Lee Breuer is one of the founding members and current Artistic Directors of the Avant-Guarde theatre company Mabou Mines(in New York City). ... John Capo is a theater director and playwright. ... Joseph Chaikin (September 16, 1935–June 22, 2003) was an American theatre director. ... Harold Edgar Clurman (September 18, 1901 – September 9, 1980) was an Jewish-American theater director and drama critic, most famous for his work with New York Citys Group Theater. ... Edward Henry Gordon Craig (16 January 1872-29 July 1966), usually known as Gordon Craig, was a British actor, producer, director and scenic designer. ... Howard Davies is a noted British theatre director. ... Declan Donnellan is a British theatre director. ... Freddie Eldrett was a British Actor and Director who started his career at the Windmill Theatre in London, where at just 18 years old he was one of the youngest entertainers to perform there. ... Tim Etchells is the artistic director and writer behind Forced Entertainment. ... Richard Foreman (born in New York on 10 June 1937) is a playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer; he is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. ... Bob Fosse, early promotional image Bob Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was a musical theater choreographer and director. ... Frank Galati is a two-time Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-winning artist. ... Patrick Garland (born April 10, 1935) is an actor and a director of British theatre, television and film, and a writer. ... Philip Gilbert Philip Gilbert was a Canadian actor born in Vancouver, Canada on 29 March 1931 and educated at Vancouver College. ... Andre Gregory (born May 11, 1934, New York City) is a Jewish-American director and actor. ... Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (2 July 1900 - 15 May 1971) was a British theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada and the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall (born 22 November 1930) is a British theatre and film director. ... Jack Hofsiss is a a distinguished director of theatre, film and television. ... John Jesurun is a New York based writer, director and multi-media artist. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about Michael Kahn the theatre director. ... Elia Kazan, (Greek: Ηλίας Καζάν, IPA: ), (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and cofounder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. ... James Lapine (born January 10, 1949 in Mansfield, Ohio) is an Jewish-American director and librettist. ... // Walter John Learning is a Canadian theatre director and actor, and founder of Theatre New Brunswick. ... Elizabeth LeCompte (born April 28, 1944) is a founding member of The Wooster Group. ... Robert Lepage (born December 12, 1957 in Quebec City) is a playwright, actor and film director from Quebec City, Quebec, and is one of Canadas most honoured theatre artists. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Phyllida Lloyd is an English theatre director. ... Joshua Logan (1908-1988), a director and writer, was best known for Broadway and Hollywood shows such as Mister Roberts, Picnic, and South Pacific. ... // Born on the fourth of July, in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan ( رزی ملک یونان ) is an Assyrian actress, artist, director, author and activist. ... Judith Malina (born June 4, 1926) is an American theater and film actor, writer, and director, who is one of the founders and leaders of The Living Theatre. ... Joe Mantello (born 27 December 1962) is a Tony Award-winning American actor and director best known for his work on Broadway productions of Wicked, Take Me Out and Assassins, as well as earlier in his career being one of the original Broadway cast of Angels in America. ... Rob Marshall is a director. ... Jackie Maxwell (b. ... Richard Maxwell is an experimental director and playwright in New York City. ... Simon Montagu McBurney (born August 25, 1957 in Cambridge) is a British actor and director. ... Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes, CBE (born August 1, 1965) is an English stage and film director born in Reading, Berkshire, England. ... Neil Munro, (b. ... Christopher Newton (b. ... Mike Nichols (born Michael Igor Peschkowsky) is an Academy Award winning movie director of films such as The Graduate and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was born on November 6, 1931 in Berlin, to a Jewish Russian family. ... Sir Trevor King (born 14 January 1940) is a loser and film director. ... Steven Pimlott OBE (1955 – 14 February 2007) was an English opera and theatre director. ... Hal Prince (born January 30, 1928), full name Harold Smith Prince, is a American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century. ... José Benjamin Quintero, born (October 15, 1924, Panama City, Panama - February 26, 1999, New York, USA) was a theatre director and teacher, best known for his interpretations of the works of Eugene ONeill. ... Martin Ritt (March 2, 1914–December 8, 1990) was an American director, actor, and playwright who worked in both film and theatre. ... Lloyd Richards (June 29, 1919 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada –June 29, 2006 in New York City, New York) was an American actor and director best known for staging the original production of Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun, which debuted on Broadway to standing ovations on March 11... Mark Rylance (born January 18, 1960) is an internationally well-known actor and theatre director. ... Michael Scott is the founder of the London Opera Society. ... Peter Sellars Peter Sellars (born 1957) is an American theater director, renowned for his modern stagings of classical operas and plays. ... Andrei Åžerban is a stage director. ... Founder of The Flea Theater in New York City. ... Max Stafford-Clark (born 1941) is an English Theatre Director. ... Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is a critically acclaimed, Tony Award-winning American director on Broadway and in film: she is known for her visual flair and brilliantly colorful costuming choices. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... Darko Tresnjak, refered to as Darko, is well known for his work as a theatre director in the U.S. He has recieved the Alan Schneider Award for Directing Excellence, a T.C.G. National Theater Artist Residency Award, a Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship, an NEA New Forms Grant, two... Pygmalion with Craig Walker and Peter Aston Craig Stewart Walker (born September 25, 1964) is a Canadian writer, theatre director, actor and educator. ... Sam Wanamaker (born Samuel Watenmaker) (June 14, 1919, Chicago – December 18, 1993, London, England) was an American actor and director. ... David L. Warren is currently a president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). ... Matthew Warchus (Director), studied music and drama at Bristol University. ... Deborah Warner CBE (born 12 May 1959) is a British theatre and opera director. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Bart Whiteman (1948-March 14, 2006) was a Washington, D.C. theatre actor, director, and producer. ... Lee Wochner is a Los Angeles, California-based playwright, producer, and theatre director. ... George C. Wolfe (September 23, 1954 - ) is an African-American playwright and director of theater and film. ... Robert Woodruff (born 1947) is an |American theatre director. ... Mary Zimmerman is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. ...

20th-century French-language theatre directors

• Antonin Artaud
• Patrice Chéreau
• Armand Eloi
• Aurélien Lugné-Poe

Antonin Artaud Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (born September 4, 1896, in Marseille; died March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and director. ... Patrice Chéreau (born November 2nd, 1944 in Lézigné, France) is a French director, film maker, actor, and producer. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Aurelien Francois Marie Lugné-Poe(1869 - 1940) was a French actor and theatre director. ...

20th-century Russian theatre directors

• Nikolay Akimov
• Anatoly Efros
• Kama Ginkas
• Yuri Lyubimov
• Vsevolod Meyerhold
• Nikolai Okhlopkov
• Konstantin Stanislavski
• Andrei Tarkovsky
• Georgy Tovstonogov
• Yevgeny Vakhtangov
• Yury Zavadsky

Self-portrait Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov (1901-1968) was an experimental theatre director and scenic designer noted for his work with the Leningrad Comedy Theatre. ... Anatoly Vasilievich Efros (Russian: Анатолий Васильевич Эфрос) (1925 - 1987) was a famous Russian and Soviet theatre director. ... Kama Ginkas (Russian: Кама Миронович Гинкас) (1941) is a famous Russian and Soviet theatre director. ... Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov (born September 17, 1917 in Yaroslavl) is a Russian stage actor and director. ... Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (born Karl Kazimir Theodor Meyerhold) (1874 - 1940) was a Russian theatrical director, actor and theorist. ... Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov (1900-1967) was the most brilliant of Meyerholds disciples. ... A portrait of Konstantin Stanislavski by Valentin Serov. ... Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Андре́й Арсе́ньевич Тарко́вский) (April 4, 1932 - December 29, 1986) was a Russian film director, opera director, writer, and actor. ... Georgy Alexandrovich Tovstonogov Georgy Alexandrovich Tovstonogov (Russian: , September 28 N.S. 1915 - May 23, 1989) was a Russian theatre director, the leader of Saint Petersburg Bolshoi Academic Theatre of Drama (formerly Gorky Theater), which now bears his name. ... Yevgeny Vakhtangov Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov (also spelled Evgeny or Eugene) (13 February 1883 – 29 May 1922) was a renowned Russian director who was associated with the State Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow in the early 20th century, and founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. ... Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky (June 30, 1894 - April 5, 1977) was a Russian actor and director. ...

20th-century Polish theatre directors

• Jerzy Grotowski
• Adam Hanuszkiewicz
• Wilam Horzyca
• Stefan Jaracz
• Tadeusz Kantor
• Juliusz Osterwa
• Stanisława Perzanowska
• Leon Schiller
• Ludwik Solski
• Włodzimierz Staniewski
• Józef Szajna

Jerzy Grotowski (11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and a leading figure in avant garde theatre of the 20th century. ... Adam Hanuszkiewicz (b. ... Stefan Jaracz (b. ... Tadeusz Kantor (April 6, 1915 – December 8, 1990) was a Polish painter, scene designer and theatre director. ... Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld (1887 - 1954) was the Polish stage director. ... Modern sculpture Ladders to Heaven at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko Józef Szajna (b. ...

20th-century German-language theatre directors

• Bertolt Brecht
• Frank Castorf
• August Everding
• Fritz Kortner
• Claus Peymann
• Max Reinhardt
• Peter Stein
• Nike Wagner
• Peter Zadek

Bertolt Brecht Brecht redirects here. ... August Everding (born 31 October 1928 in Bottrop, Germany, died 26 January 1999) was a German opera director and administrator. ... Fritz Kortner (May 12, 1892, Vienna - July 22, 1970, Munich) was an Austrian-born stage and film actor. ... Max Reinhardt Max Reinhardt (born September 9, 1873 in Baden bei Wien; died October 31, 1943 in New York City) was an influential Austrian director and actor. ... Peter Stein (born October 1, 1937) is a critically acclaimed German director who established himself at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, a company he arguably brought to the forefront of German theatre. ... Nike Wagner (born on June 9, 1945 at Ãœberlingen on Lake Constance in Germany) is the director of an arts festival held annually at Weimar, Germany (known as ‘Pèlerinages’ — Kunstfest Weimar, in 2006 held from August 25 to September 17), and a noteworthy collaborator in the Bayreuth Festival, founded... Peter Zadek (pronounced [caÌ£:dÉ›k]; born 1926) is a German theatre and film director, play translator and screenwriter. ...

20th- and 21st-century multilingual theatre directors

• Pradeep Nigam (Hindi,English,Chinese,Japanese)
• Mario Kovač (English, Italian, Croatian)
• Zillur Rahman John [Universal language/Body language, Non-Verbal Theatre - Mime,Pantomime ]

Mario Kovač (born 1975 in Zagreb), Croatian theatre and movie director. ...

20th-century Portuguese-language theatre directors

• Ademar Guerra
• Antônio Araújo
• António Augusto Barros
• Antunes Filho
• Augusto Boal
• Denise Stoklos
• Eduardo Tolentino de Araújo
• Gianni Ratto
• Hermilo Borba Filho
• Ilo Krugli
• Jorge Silva Melo
• José Celso Martinez Corrêa
• José Renato
• Luis Otávio Burnier
• Maurice Vaneau
• Oswaldo Gabrielli
• Ruggero Jacobbi
• Rui Madeira
• Sergio Britto
• Ulysses Cruz
• Zbigniew Ziembinski

Augusto Boal (born 1931 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an innovative and influential theatrical director, writer and politician. ...

20th- and 21st-century Swedish-language theatre directors