This is a list of theatre directors, 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 * Shambhu Mitra * Mamunur Rashid * 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

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 *

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 * 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 * Peter Brook * Robert Brustein * 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 *

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 * Rachel Chavkin *

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 *

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 * 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 * Joel Gersmann * John Gielgud *

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 *

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 *

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 * James Lapine *

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 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 *

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 * Rob Marshall *

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 * 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 * Agustin Reyes * Lloyd Richards * Martin Ritt * Hannah Ryan *

Mark Rylance Sir David Mark Rylance Waters (born 18 January 1960) is a British actor, playwright and theatre director. He is known for his roles on stage and screen having received numerous awards including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Laurenc ...

* Samantha Saltzman * Kate Saxon * Franklin Schaffner * Richard Schechner * Jay Scheib *

Peter Schumann Peter Schumann (born 11 June 1934) is the co-founder and director of the Bread and Puppet Theater, Bread & Puppet Theater. Born in Silesia, he was a sculpture, sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963 he f ...

* Michael Scott *

Peter Sellars Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where ...

* Andrei Şerban * Stephen Shank *

Nathaniel Shaw Nathaniel Shaw Jr. (17031778) was a Connecticut Patriot, and an American Revolutionary War soldier. He is frequently referred to as "Captain Nathaniel Shaw, Jr." Life and career Nathaniel Shaw was a successful merchant who came to live in New ...

Hassard Short Hubert Edward Hassard Short (15 October 1877 – 9 October 1956), usually known as Hassard Short, was an actor, stage director, set designer and lighting designer in musical theatre Kenrick, JohnWho's Who in Musicals: Short, HassardMusicals101.co ...

Leigh Silverman Leigh Silverman is an American director for the stage, both off-Broadway and on Broadway theatre, Broadway. She was nominated for the 2014 Tony Award, Best Direction of a Musical for the musical ''Violet (musical), Violet'' and the 2008 Drama Desk ...

Jeanmarie Simpson Jeanmarie Simpson (born November 20, 1959) is an American theatre artist and peace activist best known for writing and starring in the 2004 play '' A Single Woman'', and its 2008 film adaptation, based on the life of first US Congresswoman, Jea ...

* Max Stafford-Clark *

Susan Stroman Susan P. Stroman (born October 17, 1954) is an American theatre director, choreographer, film director and performer. Her notable theater productions include '' The Producers'', '' Crazy for You'', ''Contact'', and '' The Scottsboro Boys''. She i ...

Rebecca Taichman Rebecca Taichman is an American theatre director. In 2017, she received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for ''Indecent''. Life and career Taichman attended McGill University, Montreal, and graduated from the Yale School of Drama. She w ...

* Julie Taymor *

Tazewell Thompson Tazewell Thompson (born May 27, 1948), is an African-American theatre direction, theatre director, the former artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse (2006–07) in Westport, Connecticut, Westport, Connecticut and the Syracuse Stage (1 ...

* Sidney Toler * Ilana Ransom Toeplitz * Russell Treyz * Craig Walker *

Sam Wanamaker Samuel Wanamaker, (born Wattenmacker; June 14, 1919 – December 18, 1993) was an American actor and director who moved to the United Kingdom after becoming fearful of being blacklisted in Hollywood due to his communist views. He is credited as ...

Matthew Warchus Matthew Warchus (born 24 October 1966) is a British theatre director, filmmaker, lyricist, and playwright. He has been the Artistic Director of London's The Old Vic since September 2015. Personal life Warchus is married to American actress Lau ...

* Douglas Turner Ward *

Deborah Warner Deborah Warner (born 12 May 1959) is a British director of theatre and opera, known for her interpretations of the works of Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Benjamin Britten and Henrik Ibsen. Early life Warner was born in Oxfordshire, England, to ...

* David Warren *

Orson Welles George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his innovative work in film, radio and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential f ...

James Whale James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English film director, theatre director and actor, who spent the greater part of his career in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood. He is best remembered for several horror films: ''Fran ...

* Bart Whiteman * Kate Whoriskey * Robert Wilson *

Lee Wochner Lee Wochner is a Los Angeles, California-based playwright, producer, and theatre director. In 1992 he co-founded Moving Arts theatre, where he served as founding artistic director from 1992 to 2002. While at Moving Arts, he produced or directed ...

George C. Wolfe George Costello Wolfe (born September 23, 1954) is an American playwright and director of theater and film. He won a Tony Award in 1993 for directing '' Angels in America: Millennium Approaches'' and another Tony Award in 1996 for his direction o ...

* Robert Woodruff *

Mary Zimmerman Mary Zimmerman (born August 23, 1960) is an American theatre and opera director and playwright from Nebraska. She is an ensemble member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company, the Manilow Resident Director at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinoi ...

Filipino speaking

Daisy Avellana Daisy Avellana (January 26, 1917 – May 12, 2013) was a Filipino stage actress and theater director A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre productio ...

Lamberto V. Avellana Lamberto Vera Avellana (February 12, 1915 – April 25, 1991) was a prominent Filipino film and stage director. Despite considerable budgetary limitations that hampered the post-war Filipino film industry, Avellana's films such as ''Anak Dalit ...

Joel Lamangan Joel Lamangan (born September 21, 1952) is a Filipino film director, television director and actor. His award-winning films includes '' The Flor Contemplacion Story'', ''Sidhi'', '' Deathrow'', ''Hubog'', '' Aishte Imasu 1941'', '' Blue Moon'' an ...

Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo (born 2 July 1963) is a Filipina musical theatre actress widely considered the "first lady" of Philippine musical theatre. She is well known for her roles as Diana Goodman in ''Next to Normal'' and Mrs. Lovett alongside Audi ...

Severino Montano Severino Montano (January 3, 1915 – December 12, 1980) was a playwright, director, actor and theater organizer with an output of one novel, 150 poems and 50 plays in his 65-year lifetime. Through the foundation of the Arena Theater, Montano ...

Mario O'Hara Mario Herrero O'Hara (April 20, 1946 – June 26, 2012) was a Philippines, Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter known for his sense of Realism (arts), realism often with dark but realistic social messages.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 ...

Freddie Santos Freddie Santos (February 29, 1956 – December 17, 2020) was a Filipino film director, television director, theater director, and concert director. Theatre career Santos was born in Quezon City, Metro Manila. His early studies were at Lourdes ...

* Rolando Tinio

French speaking

* Jean Anouilh * André Antoine *

Antonin Artaud Antoine Marie Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (; 4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), was a French writer, poet, dramatist, visual artist, essayist, actor and theatre director. He is widely recognized as a major figure of the E ...

* Jean Louis Barrault *

Gaston Baty Gaston Baty (26 May 1885 – 13 October 1952), whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French playwright and theatre director. He was born in Pélussin, Loire, France. Career In 1921, Baty formed his own company ''Les Compag ...

* Patrice Chéreau *

Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (, , ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the su ...

* Armand Eloi *

Jean Giraudoux Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work ...

Louis Jouvet Jules Eugène Louis Jouvet (24 December 1887 – 16 August 1951) was a French actor, theatre director and filmmaker. Early life Jouvet was born in Crozon. He had a stutter as a young man and originally trained as a pharmacist. He receive ...

* Robert Lepage *

Lugné-Poe Aurélien-Marie Lugné (27 December 1869 19 June 1940), known by his stage and pen name Lugné-Poe, was a French actor, theatre director, and scenic designer. He founded the landmark Paris theatre company, the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, which produced ...

* Ariane Mnouchkine *

Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau (; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. Mo ...

Roger Planchon Roger Planchon (born 12 September 1931 in Saint-Chamond, Loire, died on 12 May 2009 in Paris), was a French playwright, Film director, director, and filmmaker. Biography Roger Planchon spent his childhood in the Ardèche, notably in Dornas. He fo ...

* Jacques Rivette *

Jerome Savary Jerome (; la, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Christian priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is comm ...

* Stephen Shank *

Jean Vilar Jean Vilar (25 March 1912– 28 May 1971) was a French actor and theatre director. Vilar trained under actor and theatre director Charles Dullin, then toured with an acting company throughout France. His directorial career began in 1943 in a sma ...

German speaking

* Ruth Berghaus *

Benno Besson Benno Besson (born René-Benjamin Besson; 4 November 1922 in Yverdon-les-Bains – 16 February 2006 in Berlin, Germany) was a Swiss actor and director. He had great success as director at Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Theater and Berliner Ense ...

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...

* Hans Bunge *

Frank Castorf Frank Castorf (born 17 July 1951 in East Berlin) is a German theater director and was the artistic director of the ''Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz'' from 1992 to 2015. His work is often associated with postdramatic theatre. Biography Ea ...

* Dieter Dorn * Erich Engel * August Everding * Walter Felsenstein * Gotz Friedrich *

Jens-Daniel Herzog Jens-Daniel Herzog (born 12 July 1964) is a German stage director for play and opera, and a theater manager. Career Jens-Daniel Herzog was born in Berlin, the son of the actor Peter Herzog. He studied Philosophy at the FU Berlin. From 1989 Her ...

Leopold Jessner Leopold Jessner (3 March 1878 – 13 December 1945) was a noted producer and director of German Expressionist theater and cinema. His first film, '' Hintertreppe'' (1921), is considered a major turning point which paved the way for the later ...

* Fritz Kortner *

Harry Kupfer Harry Alfred Robert Kupfer (12 August 1935 – 30 December 2019) was a German opera director and academic. A long-time director at the Komische Oper Berlin, he worked at major opera houses and at festivals internationally. Trained by Walter Felse ...

Thomas Ostermeier Thomas Ostermeier (born 3 September 1968, Soltau, West Germany) is a German theatre director. He currently mainly works for the Schaubühne. Biography Ostermeier began his theatrical career in 1990 acting under director Einar Schleef, one of his ...

Martin Kušej Martin Kušej (born 14 May 1962) is an Austrian theatre and opera director, and is director of the Burgtheater Vienna. According to German news magazine Focus, Kušej belongs to the ten most important theatre directors who have emerged in the G ...

(bilingual German/Slovenian) *

Peter Lund Peter Lund (born 30 December 1965, in Flensburg) is a German theatre director, playwright, and author, as well as Professor for Acting at Berlin University of the Arts. He has pioneered the New German Musical at the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin. ...

Erwin Piscator Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of ...

Max Reinhardt Max Reinhardt (; born Maximilian Goldmann; 9 September 1873 – 30 October 1943) was an Austrian-born Theatre director, theatre and film director, theater manager, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his innovative stage productions, he i ...

* Peter Stein *

Karl Heinz Stroux Karl Heinz Stroux (25 February 1908 – 2 August 1985) was a German actor, film and theatre director, and theatre manager. As the director of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus from 1955 to 1972 he opened the new building in 1970.(12 August 1985Gest ...

Heinz Tietjen Heinz Tietjen (24 June 1881 – 30 November 1967) was a German conductor and music producer born in Tangier, Morocco. Biography Tietjen was born in Tangier, Morocco. At age twenty-three, he held the position of producer at the Opera House in ...

Nike Wagner Nike Wagner () (born 9 June 1945) is a German dramaturge, arts administrator and author. She directed the festival , and has been the director of the Beethovenfest from 2014. The daughter of Wieland Wagner, she is a great-granddaughter of Richard ...

* Wieland Wagner *

Wolfgang Wagner Wolfgang Wagner (30 August 191921 March 2010) was a German opera director. He is best known as the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's ...

* Peter Zadek

Hindi speaking

Ebrahim Alkazi Ebrahim Alkazi (18 October 1925 – 4 August 2020) was an Indian theatre director and drama teacher. A rigid disciplinarian, he instilled in his acting students an awe and reverence that they still carry with them, with several of them havin ...

Shamim Azad Shamim Azad ( bn, শামীম আজাদ; born 11 November 1952) Upcoming Events is a Bangladeshi-born British bilingual poet, storyteller and writer. Early life Azad was born in Mymensingh, Dhaka, East Bengal (now Bangladesh) (the town w ...

Ram Gopal Bajaj Ram Gopal Bajaj is an Indian theatre director, academician, and a Hindi film actor. He has also been a faculty member and a former Director of National School of Drama, New Delhi (1995 – September 2001). He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2003 a ...

* Manish Joshi Bismil *

Satyadev Dubey Satyadev Dubey (13 July 1936 – 25 December 2011) was an Indian theatre director, actor, playwright, screenwriter & film director. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1971. He won the 1978 National Film Award for Best Scree ...

Arvind Gaur Arvind Gaur is an Indian theatre director known for innovative, socially and politically relevant plays in India. Gaur's plays are contemporary and thought-provoking, connecting intimate personal spheres of existence to larger social political ...

* Bharatendu Harishchandra *

Safdar Hashmi Safdar Hashmi (12 April 1954 – 2 January 1989) was a communist playwright and director, best known for his work with street theatre in India. He was also an actor, lyricist, and theorist, and he is still considered an important voice in Indian ...

Rohini Hattangadi Rohini Hattangadi (''née'' Oak; born 11 April 1955) is an Indian actress, known for her work in Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, and Gujarati films, and Marathi soap operas and theatre. She has won two Filmfare Awards, one National Film ...

Prithviraj Kapoor Prithviraj Kapoor (born Prithvinath Kapoor; 3 November 1906 – 29 May 1972) was an Indian actor who is also considered to be one of the founding figures of Hindi cinema. He was associated with IPTA as one of its founding members and establish ...

* B.V. Karanth * Mohan Maharishi * Prasanna * B.M. Shah * Om Shivpuri * Habib Tanvir * Ratan Thiyam *

Bansi Kaul Bansi Kaul (23 August 1949 – 6 February 2021) was an Indian theatre director and the founder of Rang Vidushak, a theatre group in Bhopal. He was a recipient of the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honor, in 2014, and the Sangeet Nat ...

Italian speaking

Giorgio Albertazzi Giorgio Albertazzi (20 August 1923 – 28 May 2016) was an Italian actor and film director. Born in San Martino a Mensola, Tuscany, Albertazzi joined the Italian Social Republic and reached the rank of lieutenant. After their defeat, he spen ...

* Eugenio Barba *

Orazio Costa Orazio Costa (6 August 1911 – 14 November 1999) was an Italian theatre pedagogist and director. Born Orazio Costa Giovangigli in Rome, Costa graduated at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1937, and after being assistant director ...

* Eduardo De Filippo * Dario Fo *

Paolo Grassi Paolo Grassi (30 October 1919 – 14 March 1981) was an Italian theatrical impresario. Grassi was born in Milan, Italy. As a young man, he worked in magazines and discovered a passion for the theater. It led him in 1937 to create a Bertoldissimo ...

* Glauco Mauri * Renzo Ricci *

Luca Ronconi Luca Ronconi (8 March 1933 – 21 February 2015) was an Italian actor, theater director, and opera director. Biography Ronconi was born in Sousse, Tunisia. After growing up in Tunisia, where his mother was a school teacher, Ronconi graduated ...

* Guido Salvini *

Maurizio Scaparro Maurizio Scaparro (born 19 January 1932) is an Italian stage and film director, playwright, journalist and author. Born in Rome, in the early 1950s Scaparro started working as a journalist and a theatre critic for the newspaper ''L'Avanti!'' an ...

Luigi Squarzina Luigi Squarzina (18 February 1922 – 8 October 2010) was an Italian theatre dramatist and director. Born in Livorno, Squarzina studied in Rome, at the Liceo Classico Tasso, where he had Vittorio Gassman as classmate. He got a degree cum laude i ...

Giorgio Strehler Giorgio Strehler (; ; 14 August 1921 – 25 December 1997) was an actor, Italian opera and theatre director. Biography Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste; His father, Bruno Strehler, was a native of Trieste with family roots in Vienna and died ...

Aldo Trionfo Aldo Trionfo (12 December 1921 – 6 February 1989) was an Italian theatre director. Life and career Born in Genoa into a Jewish family, during the war years Trionfo was forced to escape to Lausanne where he graduated in Engineering, started p ...

* Luchino Visconti *

Franco Zeffirelli Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post-World War II era, ...

Lithuanian speaking

Dalia Ibelhauptaitė Dalia Ibelhauptaitė (born 4 May 1967) is a Lithuanian opera and theatre director, theatre director and producer, a television producer and former playwright. Biography Dalia Ibelhauptaitė was born in Vilnius in 1967, and became a director at t ...

Oskaras Koršunovas Oskaras Koršunovas (born 6 March 1969) is a Lithuanian theatre director. Biography Oskaras Koršunovas was born on March 6, 1969, in Vilnius, Lithuania. He began his career as a theatre director in 1994 at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and ...

Eimuntas Nekrošius Eimuntas Nekrošius (November 21, 1952 – November 20, 2018) was a Lithuanian theatre director. Biography Early life Nekrošius was born in Pažobris village, Raseiniai district municipality, Lithuania on November 21, 1952. Career In 1978, Nek ...

* Juozas Miltinis *

Rimas Tuminas Rimas Tuminas (born 20 January 1952 in Kelmė, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian theatre director. He was awarded the State Prize of Russia in 1999. Since 2007 he has been the Artistic director of the Moscow Vakhtangov theatre. With Tuminas, the Vakhtan ...

* Jonas Vaitkus *

Adolfas Večerskis Adolfas Večerskis (born 4 September 1949 in Kretinga), is a Lithuanian movie and stage actor, director and translator. He began his career in films, but later chose to play mainly on the stage. Večerskis, his wife Viola, and their younger daugh ...

Nepali speaking

Anup Baral Anup Baral ( ne, अनुप बराल) (born 1968) is actor, writer, director of Nepal. Filmography Awards *National film award for the movie ''Das Dhunga''. * NEFTA Film Awards NEFTA Film Award is award ceremony for Nepali movies ...

Hari Prasad Rimal Hari Prasad Rimal (Nepali language, Nepali: हरि प्रसाद रिमाल, born September 20, 1925; died August 31, 2018 ) sometimes known as, father of Nepali Radio drama was a Nepalese actor, singer and film director. He is known ...

* Khagendra Lamichhane *

Sunil Pokharel Sunil Pokharel ( ne, सुनील पोखरेल; born on 16 June 1963) is a Nepali theatre artist and director. He is considered one of the pioneers of modern Nepali theatre. He is a graduate of National School of Drama, India (1987).H ...

Norwegian speaking

* Tore Vagn Lid * Stein Winge

Persian speaking

* Bahram Beyzai *

Hamid Samandarian Hamid Samandarian fa, حمید سمندریان; May 6, 1931 – July 12, 2012) was an Iranian film and theater director and translator. He staged numerous dramas including ''No Exit'' by Jean-Paul Sartre, ''Ghosts'' by Henrik Ibsen, ''The ...

Ali Nassirian Ali Nassirian ( fa, علی نصیریان; born 4 February 1935) is an Iranian actor and director. He has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh and a Hafez Award. Film career He first appeared in a supporting role in Dariu ...

Polish speaking

Erwin Axer Erwin Axer (1 January 1917 – 5 August 2012) was a Polish theatre director, writer and university professor. A long-time head of Teatr Współczesny (Contemporary Theatre) in Warsaw, he also staged numerous plays abroad, notably in German-speakin ...

Richard Boleslavsky Richard Boleslawski (born Bolesław Ryszard Srzednicki; February 4, 1889 – January 17, 1937) was a Polish theatre and film director, actor and teacher of acting. Biography Richard Boleslawski was born Bolesław Ryszard Srzednicki on February ...

Kazimierz Dejmek Kazimierz Dejmek (17 May 1924 – 31 December 2002) was a Polish actor, theatre and film director, and politician. During his career he managed the New Theatre in Łódź (since 2008 named after him), the National Theatre, Warsaw, and the Teatr P ...

* Jerzy Fedorowicz *

Jerzy Grotowski Jerzy Marian Grotowski (; 11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and theorist whose innovative approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today. He was born in Rzesz ...

Adam Hanuszkiewicz Adam Hanuszkiewicz (16 June 1924 – 4 December 2011) was a Polish actor and theatre director. Hanuszkiewicz was born in Lwów, Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 ...

Stefan Jaracz Stefan Jaracz (24 December 1883 – 11 August 1945) was a Polish actor and theater producer. He served as the artistic director of Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw during the interwar period (1930–32), and within a short period raised its reputation ...

Krzysztof Jasiński Krzysztof Jasiński (born July 21, 1943, in Borzechów) is a Polish actor, TV and theatre director.Krzysztof Jasi ...

* Tadeusz Kantor *

Jerzy Markuszewski Jerzy Markuszewski (16 December 1930 – 16 October 2007) was a Polish theater director and anti- Communist dissident. Born in Warsaw, Markuszewski was one of the co-signers of Letter of 59, which protested the altering of the Constitution of th ...

Stanisława Perzanowska Stanisława Perzanowska (born July 2, 1898 in Warsaw - May 24, 1982 in Warsaw) was a Polish actress, theater and film director, professor at the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw. She graduated from the Warsaw Dramatic School in 1919. I ...

Barbara Sass Barbara Sass-Zdort (14 October 1936 – 2 April 2015) was a Polish screenwriter and film/stage director. In 1975, she graduated from the National Film School in Łódź. She was married to the cinematographer Wiesław Zdort. Mother of famous Polish ...

Leon Schiller Leon Schiller or Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld (14 March 1887 – 25 March 1954) was a Polish theatre and film director, as well as critic and theatre theoretician. He also wrote theatre and radio screenplays and composed music. He was born in Kra ...

Ludwik Solski Ludwik Solski (20 January 1855 - 19 December 1954), born Ludwik Napoleon Karol Sosnowski, was a Polish stage actor and theatre director. From his stage debut in 1876 until his death (his last performance took place six months after his 99th birt ...

Włodzimierz Staniewski Włodzimierz Staniewski (born in 1950 in Bardo, Poland) is a Polish theatre and film director, founder and director of the Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices. Author of international programmes, actor training, essays, and plays. Awards *1 ...

Józef Szajna Józef Szajna (; 13 March 1922 in Rzeszów, Poland – 24 June 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish set designer, director, playwright, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist. During the Second World War and occupation of Poland, S ...

Arnold Szyfman Arnold Szyfman (23 November 1882 in Ulanów – 11 January 1967 in Warsaw) was a Polish theatre director and stage director.Arnold ...

* Mariusz Treliński *

Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Witold Wajda (; 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the ...

* Michał Zadara * Lidia Zamkow *

Krzysztof Zanussi Krzysztof Pius Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is ...

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz Zbigniew Jan Zapasiewicz (13 September 1934 – 14 July 2009) was one of the most prominent post-war Polish actors, as well as a theatre director and pedagogue. Biography Zbigniew Zapasiewicz was born on 13 September 1934 in Warsaw, Poland. Du ...

* Aleksander Zelwerowicz * Feliks Żukowski

Portuguese speaking

Augusto Boal Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical left popular education movemen ...

Sergio Britto Sergio may refer to: * Sergio (given name), for people with the given name Sergio * Sergio (carbonado), the largest rough diamond ever found * ''Sergio'' (album), a 1994 album by Sergio Blass * ''Sergio'' (2009 film), a documentary film * ''Se ...

* Luis Miguel Cintra * João Garcia Miguel * Jorge Listopad * Gerald Thomas

Russian speaking

Nikolay Akimov Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov (russian: Никола́й Па́влович Аки́мов; – 6 September 1968) was an experimental theatre director and scenic designer noted for his work with the Leningrad Comedy Theatre. His most notorious product ...

* Yevgeny Aryeh *

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (russian: Владимир Иванович Немирович-Данченко; , Ozurgeti – 25 April 1943, Moscow), was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer an ...

Lev Dodin Lev Abramovich Dodin (russian: Лев Абрамович Додин, born 1944) is a modern Russian theater director, the leader of Saint Petersburg Maly Drama Theater. Biography Lev Dodin was born in Novokuznetsk in 1944. He first experienced ...

Anatoly Efros Anatoly Vasilievich Efros (russian: Анатолий Васильевич Эфрос; July 3, 1925, Kharkiv — January 13, 1987, Moscow) was a Soviet theatre and film director. He was a leading interpreter of Russian classics during the Era of St ...

Kama Ginkas Kama Ginkas (russian: Кама Миронович Гинкас) (born 7 May 1941 in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, USSR) is a Russian and Soviet theatre director. Born to a Jewish family, Ginkas was a student of Georgy Tovstonogov, Ginkas has collabor ...

* Yuri Lyubimov *

Alexandre Marine Alexandre Marine (russian: Александр Валентинович Марин; born September 30, 1958, in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia) is a Russian-born actor-director- playwright currently based in Montreal. On April 23, 1993, he was recognized by ...

* Vsevolod Meyerhold *

* Nikolai Okhlopkov * Lev Shekhtman * Konstantin Stanislavsky *

Alexander Tairov Alexander Yakovlevich Tairov (russian: Александр Яковлевич Таиров; uk, Олександр Якович Таїров; 6 July 1885 – 5 September 1950) was a leading innovator and theatre director in Russia before and durin ...

Georgy Tovstonogov Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov (russian: Георгий Александрович Товстоногов, – 23 May 1989) was a Russian-Georgian theatre director. He was the leader of the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater which was renamed after ...

* Yevgeny Vakhtangov *

Anatoly Vasiliev Anatoly Alexandrovitch Vasiliev (russian: Анато́лий Алекса́ндрович Васи́льев, link=no; born May 4, 1942, Penza Oblast) is a Russian theatre director. He is artistic director of the Moscow Theatre "School of Dramat ...

Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov (russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Заха́ров; 5 July 1946 – 14 July 2013) was a Russian choreographer, founder, Chief Choreographer and Artistic Director of Gzhel (theater), Moscow National A ...

Yury Zavadsky Yuri Aleksandrovich Zavadsky (russian: Юрий Александрович Завадский; 12 July 1894, Moscow — 5 April 1977, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian theater director, actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1948) and ...

Serbo-Croatian speaking

Nebojša Bradić Nebojša Bradić ( sr-cyr, Небојша Брадић, born 1956) is a Serbian theater director. He served as the Minister of Culture in the Government of Serbia from 2008 to 2011. Biography Bradić was born in Trstenik, Serbia. He graduated fr ...

Goran Gajić Goran Gajić ( sr-Cyrl, Горан Гајић; born 1962) is a Serbian film, television and theater director. He has directed media in English and Serbo-Croatian. His wife was actress Mira Furlan, and they have one son, Marko Lav. In 1998, he dir ...

Branko Gavella Branko Gavella (29 July 1885 – 8 April 1962) was a Croatian theatre director, critic and essayist. Biography Born in Zagreb, Croatia (which was at the time part of Austria-Hungary) Gavella finished high school in his hometown before enrolling a ...

* Gradimir Gojer * Zorica Jevremović * Siniša Kovačević *

Sulejman Kupusović Sulejman Kupusović (7 April 1951 – 15 August 2014) was a Bosnian theater director. Also, he directed some television films and series. In 1974, Kupusović received a diploma from the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Zagreb, as a director o ...

* Velimir Živojinović Massuka * Dejan Miladinović *

Ognjenka Milićević Ognjenka Milićević Lukač ( sr-cyr, Огњенка Милићевић; 26 December 1927 – 23 January 2008) was a Bosnian Serb director, acting professor, and theatre expert. She was a daughter of the prominent publicist and professor Nika Mi ...

Branislav Nušić Branislav Nušić ( sr-cyr, Бранислав Нушић, ; – 19 January 1938) was a Serbian playwright, satirist, essayist, novelist and founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and a civil servant. Life Bra ...

Vida Ognjenović Vida Ognjenović ( sr-cyr, Вида Огњеновић, ; born 14 August 1941) is a Serbian theater director, playwright, writer, drama professor and diplomat. Biography Ognjenović completed primary education in the town of Vrbas, before going ...

Tanja Miletić Oručević Tanja Miletić Oručević (born 6 February 1970) is a Bosnian theatre director, academic lecturer, and translator. Life and career She was born in 1970 in Sarajevo and has graduated in 1999 from the drama directing department of the AST National ...

Haris Pašović Haris Pašović (born 16 July 1961) is a Bosnian theatre director. Over the course of his career, he has also worked as a playwright, producer, choreographer, performer, and designer. He is best known for his productions of Wedekind's “ Spring A ...

* Katja Restović *

Zijah Sokolović Zijah Sokolović (born 22 December 1950) is a Bosnian actor, writer and director. He is the director of ''Theaterland'' in Salzburg, professor at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, artistic director of ''Dežela gledališča'' theat ...

Mira Trailović Mira Trailović (Serbian language, Serbian Cyrillic: Мира Траиловић; née Milićević; 22 January 1924 – 7 August 1989) was a Serbian dramaturg and one of the most distinguished theatre directors in the history of Serbian and Yugosl ...

Mirjana Vukomanović Mirjana Vukomanović ( sr, Мирјана Вукомановић, , born December 9, 1967 in Trstenik) is a Serbian film, television and theater director who emerged in the 1990s as a significant figure in Serbian dramatic arts. She works in Serbi ...

Milenko Zablaćanski Milenko Zablaćanski, ( sr-cyr, Миленко Заблаћански), (Bogatić, Serbia, — Belgrade, Serbia, ), was a Serbian actor, director, and screenwriter. Career Zablaćanski graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) in Belgr ...

Stevo Žigon Štefan "Stevo" Žigon ( sr-cyr, Стево Жигон; 8 December 1926 – 28 December 2005) was a Yugoslav actor, theatre director, and writer. Biography His origins were primarily Italian. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the ...

Spanish speaking

* Calixto Bieito * Alejandra Boero *

Antonio Cunill Cabanellas Antonio Cunill Cabanellas (August 27, 1894 – February 18, 1969) was an influential Spanish-Argentine playwright, theatre actor, director and instructor. Life and work Cunill Cabanellas was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1894. His father, Juan Cuni ...

Orestes Caviglia Orestes Caviglia (; November 9, 1893 in Buenos Aires – April 1, 1971 in Tucumán) was an Argentine film actor and film director of the classic era of the Cinema of Argentina. He appeared in films such as ''La cabalgata del circo'' 1945 and '' ...

Armando Discépolo Armando Discépolo (1887–1971) was an Argentine playwright. His most productive writing time spanned from 1910 to 1934 and thereafter, he produced theatrical performances of his plays. He is credited with creating and developing the Argentine ...

* Nuria Espert *

Carlos Gandolfo Carlos Gandolfo (March 27, 1931January 12, 2005) was an Argentine stage actor and director. Life and work Carlos Gandolfo was born in Buenos Aires, in 1931. He was a director in local, independent theatres ''Teatro de los Independientes'' and '' ...

* Victor Garcia *

Juan Carlos Gené Juan Carlos Gené (6 November 1929 – 31 January 2012) was an Argentine actor and playwright. He was president and secretary general of the Argentine Actors Association, managing director of Canal Siete and managing director of Teatro General ...

Antonio Larreta Gualberto José Antonio Rodríguez Larreta Ferreira (14 December 1922 – 19 August 2015), better known as Antonio Larreta or Taco Larreta, was a Uruguayan writer, critic and actor. Born in Montevideo, he was active in Uruguay and Spain. Selec ...

Jorge Lavelli Jorge Lavelli (born 1932, Buenos Aires) is a French theater and opera director of Italian ethnicity and Argentine origin. The son of Italian immigrants in Argentina, Lavelli has lived in France since the early 1960s. He became a French citizen in ...

* Inda Ledesma * Cecilio Madanes * Jorge Merced * Fanny Mikey * José Quintero *

Jesusa Rodríguez Jesusa Rodríguez (born 1955, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican theater director, actress, performance artist, social activist, elected Senator of the Morena party and an active promoter of the use of marihuana and other drugs. Active representat ...

José Tamayo José Tamayo (1920–2003) was a Spanish theatre director and producer, best known for his dramatic and zarzuela () is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and po ...

Margarita Xirgu Margarita Xirgu Subirá (18 June 1888, Molins de Rei, Barcelona, Spain – 25 April 1969, Montevideo, Uruguay), also Margarida Xirgu, was a Spanish stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America. A friend of ...

China Zorrilla China Zorrilla (; born Concepción Matilde Zorrilla de San Martín Muñoz; 14 March 1922 – 17 September 2014) was an Uruguayan theater, film, and television actress, also director, producer and writer. An immensely popular star in the Rioplaten ...

Slovak speaking

* Juraj Nvota * Roman Polák

Swedish speaking

Lars Amble Lars Anders Amble-Næss (10 August 1939 – 20 August 2015) was a Swedish actor and director. Amble was the son of Leif Amble-Næss and Maritta Marke. After finishing theater school in Stockholm, which he attended from 1962 to 1965, he was hi ...

Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, Film producer, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known ...

Hugo Hansén Claes Hugo Hansén (born 26 December 1972) a Swedish theatre director. Currently employed by the Stockholm City Theatre. Hansén is also a member of Mensa, a social organization whose members are in the top 2% of intelligence as measured by an ...

Olof Molander Olof Johan Harald Molander (8 October 1892 – 26 May 1966) was a Sweden, Swedish theatre director, theatre and film director. He was most notable for his many Strindberg and Shakespeare productions. Biography Molander was born in Helsinki. H ...

Stig Olin Stig Olin, né ''Högberg'' (11 September 1920 – 28 June 2008) was a Swedish actor, theatre director, songwriter and singer. He was the father of actress Lena Olin and singer Mats Olin. He was married to film actresses Britta Holmberg and ...

Peter Oskarson Peter Oskarson (born 1951) is a Swedish theatre director and actor from Stockholm.Albert Ranft *

Alf Sjöberg Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg (21 June 1903 – 17 April 1980) was a Sweden, Swedish theatre director, theatre and film director. He won the Palme d'Or, Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for ''Torment (1944 film), Torment ...

Multilingual

(Arabic, Hebrew, English) *

Lucien Bourjeily Lucien Bourjeily is an Emmy nominated writer and director of both theater and film. His work has traveled the worldwide festival circuits and won him many awards of which the 2017 Dubai International Film Festival Jury Prize. He brought his prog ...

(Arabic, French, English) * Chandradasan (English, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil) * Mario Kovač (Croatian, English, Italian) *

Roberto Paci Dalò Roberto Paci Dalò is an Italian author, composer and musician, film maker and theatre director, sound and visual artist, radio-maker. He is the co-founder and director of the performing arts ensemblGiardini Pensiliand he has been the artistic d ...

(English, Italian, German, French, Chinese) * Stephen Shank (English, French) *

Mihai Timofti Mihai Timofti - Master of Arts (born September 19, 1948) is a director, actor, musician and professor from Chisinau, Moldova. In 1965 he started his activity in the popular theatre "Contemporanul" (Art Director was the playwright Mr G.Timofte) ...

(English, French, Italian, Romanian, Russia) *

Rajesh Vedprakash Rajesh Vedprakash (Hindi: राजेश वेदप्रकाश, born as Rajesh Vedprakash Maingi राजेश वेदप्रकाश मैंगी; October 7, 1968) as an Indian voice artist who can speak English, Hindi and Urdu. ...

(English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu)

Other

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

References

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