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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George S. Kaufman | George Simon Kaufman | 1889 | 1961 | American | playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Kaufman |
| Mike Leigh | Mike Leigh | 1943 | n/a | English | film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leigh |
| Steven Berkoff | Steven Berkoff | 1937 | n/a | British | actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Berkoff |
| Moss Hart | Moss Hart | 1904 | 1961 | American | playwright, librettist, and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_Hart |
| Jules Dassin | Julius "Jules" Dassin | 1911 | 2008 | American | film and theatre director, producer, writer and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Dassin |
| Thomas Kail | Thomas Kail | 1978 | n/a | American | theatre director, known for directing the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musicals In the Heights and Hamilton, garnering the 2016 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for the latter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kail |
| Nicholas Hytner | Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner | 1956 | n/a | English | theatre director, film director, and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Hytner |
| Arthur Laurents | Arthur Laurents | 1917 | 2011 | American | playwright, theatre director, film producer and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Laurents |
| Antony Sher | Sir Antony Sher | 1949 | 2021 | British | actor, writer and theatre director of South African origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Sher |
| Jerry Adler | Jerry Adler | 1929 | n/a | American | theatre director, producer, and television and film actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Adler |
| Harold Clurman | Harold Edgar Clurman | 1901 | 1980 | American | theatre director and drama critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Clurman |
| Jacques Levy | Jacques Levy | 1935 | 2004 | American | songwriter, theatre director and clinical psychologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Levy |
| Fritz Kortner | Fritz Kortner | 1892 | 1970 | Austrian | stage and film actor and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kortner |
| Michael Bennett (theater) | Michael Bennett | 1943 | 1987 | American | musical theatre director, writer, choreographer, and dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bennett_(theater) |
| Matt Shakman | Matt Shakman | null | null | American | film, television, and theatre director, and former child actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Shakman |
| Martin Charnin | Martin Charnin | 1934 | 2019 | American | lyricist, writer, and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Charnin |
| Bartlett Sher | Bartlett B. Sher | 1959 | n/a | American | theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlett_Sher |
| Michael Mayer (director) | Michael Mayer | 1960 | n/a | American | theatre director, filmmaker, and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mayer_(director) |
| Eino Baskin | Eino Baskin | 1929 | 2015 | Estonian | actor and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eino_Baskin |
| Arnoldo Foà | Arnoldo Foà | 1916 | 2014 | Italian | actor, voice actor, theatre director, singer and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnoldo_Foà |
| Mark Medoff | Mark Medoff | 1940 | 2019 | American | playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Medoff |
| Michael Bogdanov | Michael Bogdanov | 1938 | 2017 | Welsh | theatre director known for his work with new plays, modern reinterpretations of Shakespeare, musicals and work for young people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bogdanov |
| Joseph Fields | Joseph Albert Fields | 1895 | 1966 | American | playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fields |
| Raoul Trujillo | Raoul Maximiano Trujillo de Chauvelon | 1955 | n/a | American | actor, dancer, choreographer, and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Trujillo |
| Leontine Sagan | Leontine Sagan | 1889 | 1974 | Austrian | theatre director and actress of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontine_Sagan |
| Andy Fickman | Andy Fickman | null | null | American | film director, film producer, screenwriter, television director, television producer, and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Fickman |
| Ludwig Berger (director) | Ludwig Berger | 1892 | 1969 | German | Jewish film director, screenwriter and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Berger_(director) |
| Braham Murray | Braham Sydney Murray, OBE | 1943 | 2018 | English | theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braham_Murray |
| Franca Valeri | Alma Franca Maria Norsa | 1920 | 2020 | Italian | actress, playwright, screenwriter, author, and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franca_Valeri |
| Rodney Ackland | Rodney Ackland | 1908 | 1991 | English | playwright, actor, theatre director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Ackland |
| Joseph Chaikin | Joseph Chaikin | 1935 | 2003 | American | theatre director, actor, playwright, and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Chaikin |
| Nina Raine | Nina Raine | null | null | English | theatre director and playwright, the only daughter of Craig Raine and Ann Pasternak Slater, and a grand niece of the Russian novelist Boris Pasternak | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Raine |
| Henry Woolf | Henry Woolf | 1930 | 2021 | British | actor, theatre director, and teacher of acting, drama, and theatre who lived in Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Woolf |
| Elijah Moshinsky | Elijah Moshinsky | 1946 | 2021 | Australian | opera director, theatre director and television director who worked for the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal National Theatre, and BBC Television, among other organisations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Moshinsky |
| David Benedictus | David Henry Benedictus | 1938 | n/a | English | writer and theatre director, best known for his novels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benedictus |
| John Tillinger | John Tillinger | 1938 | n/a | null | theatre director and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tillinger |
| Mikhail Kozakov | Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozakov | 1934 | 2011 | null | Soviet, Russian film and theatre director and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kozakov |
| Gerald Freedman | Gerald Alan Freedman | 1927 | 2020 | American | theatre director, librettist, and lyricist, and a college dean | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Freedman |
| John Hirsch | John Stephen Hirsch, OC | 1930 | 1989 | Hungarian | theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hirsch |
| Harold Goldblatt | Harold Goldblatt | 1899 | 1982 | null | actor, theatre director and theatre producer from Northern Ireland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Goldblatt |
| Julius Gellner | Julius Gellner | 1899 | 1983 | null | one of the most famous German-speaking theatre directors of the 1920s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Gellner |
| Alexis Granowsky | Alexis Granowsky | 1890 | 1937 | Russian | theatre director who later became a film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Granowsky |
| Jack Garfein | Jakob Garfein | 1930 | 2019 | American | film and theatre director, writer, teacher, producer, and key figure of the Actors' Studio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Garfein |
| James Hammerstein | James Blanchard Hammerstein | 1931 | 1999 | American | theatre director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hammerstein |
| Sergei Yursky | Sergei Yurievich Yursky | 1935 | 2019 | Soviet | stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Yursky |
| Alexander Tairov | Alexander Yakovlevich Tairov | 1885 | 1950 | null | leading innovator and theatre director in Russia before and during the Soviet era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Tairov |
| Konstantin Raikin | Konstantin Arkadyevich Raikin | 1950 | n/a | Russian | actor and theatre director, the head of the Moscow Satyricon Theatre (since 1988) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Raikin |
| Ernst Lothar | Ernst Lothar | 1890 | 1974 | null | Moravian-Austrian writer, theatre director/manager and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Lothar |
| Yehoshua Sobol | Yehoshua Sobol | 1939 | n/a | Israeli | playwright, writer, and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehoshua_Sobol |
| Fritz Richard | Fritz Richard | 1869 | 1933 | Austrian | actor and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Richard |
| Ilja Richter | Ilja Richter | 1952 | n/a | German | actor, voice actor, television presenter, singer, theatre director and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilja_Richter |
| Brontis Jodorowsky | Brontis Jodorowsky | 1962 | n/a | Mexican | actor and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontis_Jodorowsky |
| Mimi Pollak | Maria Helena "Mimi" Pollak | 1903 | 1999 | Swedish | actress and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Pollak |
| Erwin Axer | Erwin Axer | 1917 | 2012 | Polish | theatre director, writer and university professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Axer |
| Ida Ehre | Ida Ehre | 1900 | 1989 | Austrian | actress and theatre director and manager | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Ehre |
| Nicolas Kent | Nicolas Kent | 1945 | n/a | British | theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Kent |
| Julia Pascal | Julia Pascal | null | null | British | playwright and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Pascal |
| Pavel Antokolsky | Pavel Grigoryevich Antokolsky | 1896 | 1978 | Soviet | poet and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Antokolsky |
| Felix Hollaender | Felix Hollaender | 1867 | 1931 | German | writer, critic, dramaturge and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Hollaender |
| Moishe Broderzon | Moishe Broderzon | 1890 | 1956 | null | Yiddish poet, theatre director, and the founder of the Łódź literary group Yung-yidish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moishe_Broderzon |
| Barnett Levey | Barnett Levey | 1798 | 1837 | English | Jewish–Australian merchant and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Levey |
| Leon Dubinsky | Leon Dubinsky | null | null | Canadian | actor, theatre director and composer from Sydney, Nova Scotia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Dubinsky |
| Daniel Efrat | Daniel Efrat | 1982 | n/a | Israeli | actor, theatre director, and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Efrat |
| Michael Shapiro (actor) | Michael Shapiro | null | null | American | actor, and theatre director, best known for voicing the Half-Life characters G-Man and Barney Calhoun | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shapiro_(actor) |
| Michael Nathanson (director) | Michael Nathanson | null | null | Canadian | playwright and theatre director, who was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2009 Governor General's Awards for his play Talk | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nathanson_(director) |
| Jean Haden-Guest, Lady Haden-Guest | Jean Pauline Haden-Guest, Baroness Haden-Guest | 1921 | 2017 | American | theatre director and television executive | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Haden-Guest,_Lady_Haden-Guest |
| Kama Ginkas | Kama Ginkas | 1941 | n/a | Russian | theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Ginkas |
| Pippin Parker | Pippin Parker | 1969 | n/a | American | playwright and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippin_Parker |
| Aldo Trionfo | Aldo Trionfo | 1921 | 1989 | Italian | theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Trionfo |
| Valentin Pluchek | Valentin Nikolayevich Pluchek | 1909 | 2002 | Russian | theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Pluchek |
| Saskia Cohen-Tanugi | Saskia Cohen-Tanugi | 1959 | 2020 | Tunisian | theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskia_Cohen-Tanugi |
| János Nyíri | János Nyíri | 1932 | 2002 | null | theatre director, journalist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/János_Nyíri |
| André Gregory | André William Gregory | 1934 | n/a | French | theatre director, writer and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Gregory |
| Albert Cohen (actor) | Albert Cohen | 1932 | n/a | Israeli | actor, voice actor, theatre director, singer and accordionist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Cohen_(actor) |
| Hans Curjel | Hans Richard Curjel | 1896 | 1974 | Swiss | art historian, conductor and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Curjel |
| Eleanor Reissa | Eleanor Reissa | null | null | American | actress, singer, theatre director, playwright, librettist, choreographer, and translator based in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Reissa |
| Pnina Gary | Pnina Gary | 1927 | n/a | Israeli | actress and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnina_Gary |
| Yuval Zamir | Yuval Zamir | 1963 | 2011 | Israeli | actor, voice actor, singer, writer and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Zamir |
| Mark Weil | Mark Yakovlevich Weil | 1952 | 2007 | null | Sovietistani theatre director, and founder and art director of the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weil |
| Ernst Haeussermann | Ernst Haeussermann | 1916 | 1984 | German | theatre director and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeussermann |
| Emjo Basshe | Emjo Basshe | 1898 | 1939 | Lithuanian | Jewish playwright of Spanish ancestry and theatre director who co-founded New York City's New Playwrights Theatre in 1926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emjo_Basshe |
| Lev Shekhtman | Lev Shulimovich Shekhtman | 1951 | n/a | Russian | theatre director and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Shekhtman |
| Boris Sohn | Boris Vulfovich Sohn | 1898 | 1966 | Soviet | stage actor, theatre director and theatre educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Sohn |
| Robin Garbose | Robin Saex Garbose | 1960 | n/a | American | filmmaker and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Garbose |
| Ludwik Flaszen | Ludwik Flaszen | 1930 | 2020 | Polish | theatre director and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Flaszen |
| Jan Fischer (Czech actor) | Jan Fischer | 1921 | 2011 | Czech | Jewish actor and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Fischer_(Czech_actor) |
| Jacob Herzfeld | Jacob Herzfeld | null | null | German | theatre director and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Herzfeld |
| Yaron Edelstein | Yaron Edelstein | 1979 | n/a | Israeli | playwright and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaron_Edelstein |