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A theater director is someone who directs a production of a play.
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Arthur Laurents (born July 14, 1918) is an award-winning American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter. His credits include the stage musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and the film The Way We Were.
Laurents, the son of a lawyer...
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| x John Caird |
John Caird (December 15, 1820 - July 30, 1898), was a theologian, born at Greenock and educated at Glasgow. He entered the Church of Scotland, of which he became one of the most eloquent preachers.
After being a minister in the country and in...
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| x Robert Lewis |
Robert Lewis (March 16, 1909 – November 23, 1997) was an American actor, director, teacher, author and founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947.
In addition to his accomplishments on Broadway and in Hollywood, Lewis' greatest and...
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| x George Abbott |
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George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than seven decades.
Abbott was born in Forestville, New York,...
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| x Geoffrey Holder |
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Geoffrey Holder (born 1 August 1930) is a Trinidadian actor, choreographer, dancer, painter, costume designer, singer and voice-over artist.
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Holder is known for his towering 200-centimeter (6'6") height, heavily...
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| x Dan Fields |
Currently living in New York City, Dan Fields (Director/Producer) was Resident Director of Disney￢ﾀﾙs Broadway production of The Lion King, where he assisted director Julie Taymor from its inception. In Seattle, as Resident Director at Annex Theatre...
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| x Hal Prince |
Harold Smith Prince (born January 30, 1928) is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century. He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other...
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| x Adrian Noble | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
Adrian Keith Noble (born Chichester, Sussex, England, 19 July 1950) is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.
After he graduated from Chichester High School, he...
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| x Abe Burrows |
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Abe Burrows (18 December 1910 – 17 May 1985) was an American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage.
Born Abram Solman Borowitz in New York City, Burrows graduated New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and later attended both City...
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| x Gillian Lynne |
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Gillian Barbara Lynne (née Pyrke), CBE (born 20 February 1926) is a British ballerina, dancer, actor, theatre director, television director and choreographer noted for her popular theatre choreography associated with the iconic musicals Cats and the...
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| x Gower Champion |
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Gower Carlyle Champion (June 22, 1919 – August 25, 1980) was an American theatre director, choreographer, and dancer.
Champion was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of John W. Champion and Beatrice Carlisle. He was raised in Los Angeles, California,...
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| x Ron Field |
Ronald Field (1934 – February 6, 1989) was an American choreographer, director, and dancer.
Field was born in New York City, New York where he made his Broadway debut as a child in Lady in the Dark (1941) with Gertrude Lawrence. He later danced in...
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| x Des McAnuff |
Desmond McAnuff (born 19 June 1952) is a Canadian-American director of musical theatre of such Broadway productions as Big River and The Who's Tommy. He has also produced Tony award-winning revivals of the Broadway classics, Guys and Dolls, The...
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| x Jerry Mitchell |
Jerry Mitchell is an American theatre director and choreographer.
Born in Paw Paw, Michigan, Mitchell's early Broadway credits were as a dancer in The Will Rogers Follies and revivals of Brigadoon and On Your Toes. He is openly gay.
Mitchell's first...
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| x Rob Marshall |
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Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner whose most noted work includes the 2002 film Chicago and...
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| x Martin Charnin |
Martin Charnin (born November 24, 1934) is an American lyricist, writer, and theatre director.
Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story. His...
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| x Noel Coward |
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Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose...
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| x Trevor Nunn | Oklahoma 1998 West End |
Sir Trevor Robert Nunn CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre- and film director.
Nunn was born in Ipswich, England to Robert Alexander Nunn, a cabinetmaker, and Dorothy May Piper. He was educated at Northgate Grammar School, Ipswich and...
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| x Jerome Robbins |
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Peter Pan |
Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American film director and choreographer whose work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater. Among the numerous stage productions he worked on were On the...
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| x Joshua Logan |
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Joshua Lockwood Logan III (5 October 1908 – 12 July 1988) was an American stage and film director and writer.
Logan was born in Texarkana, Texas. His father died when Logan was only three, and his mother remarried six years later. He was reared in...
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| x James Lapine |
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James Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director and librettist.
Lapine was born in Mansfield, Ohio and graduated from Franklin and Marshall College. He was a photographer, graphic designer, and architectural preservationist before...
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| x Joe Mantello | Wicked |
Joseph Mantello (born 27 December 1962) is an 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...
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| x George Faison |
George Faison (born December 21, 1945) is an American dancer and choreographer.
Faison was born in Washington, D.C. where he studied dance with the Jones-Haywood Capitol Ballet and Carolyn Tate of Howard University while attending Dunbar High School...
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| x Michael Bennett |
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Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 – July 2, 1987) was an American musical theater director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. He won seven Tony Awards for his choreography and direction of Broadway shows and was nominated for an additional eleven....
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| x Michael Blakemore |
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Michael Howell Blakemore OBE (born 18 June 1928) is an Australian actor, writer and theatre director. In 2000 he became the individual to win Tony Awards for best Director of a Play and Musical in the same year for Copenhagen and Kiss Me, Kate....
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| x Richard Maltby, Jr. |
Richard Maltby, Jr. (born October 6, 1937, Ripon, Wisconsin) is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter.
Maltby is also well known as a constructor of cryptic crossword puzzles. He has done this for Harper's Magazine,...
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| x Burt Shevelove |
Burt Shevelove (September 19, 1915 - April 8, 1982) was an American musical theater playwright, lyricist, librettist, and director. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he graduated from Brown University and Yale (Master's degree). After serving as a...
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| x Martin Scorsese |
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Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an Academy Award winning American film director, screenwriter, producer, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement...
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| x Joseph Anthony |
Joseph Anthony (May 24, 1912 – January 20, 1993) was an American playwright, actor, and director. He made his film acting debut in the 1934 film Hat, Coat, and Glove and his theatrical acting debut in a 1935 production of Mary of Scotland. On five...
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| x Howard Lindsay |
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Howard Lindsay (29 March 1889 - 11 February 1968) was an American theatrical producer, playwright, librettist, director and actor. He is best known for his writing work as part of the collaboration of Lindsay and Crouse, and for his performance,...
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| x Tom O'Horgan | |||
| x Graciela Daniele | |||
| x Jason Moore | |||
| x Frank Collins | |||
| x John Rando | |||
| x Matt August | |||
| x Robert Jess Roth | |||
| x Robert Longbottom | |||
| x Tom Moore | Grease | ||
| x Hassard Short | |||
| x Jeffrey Calhoon | |||
| x Casey Nicholaw | |||
| x Francois Chouquet | |||
| x Jack O'Brien | |||
| x Gilbert Mosses | |||
| x Rebecca Novick | |||
| x Richard E. T. White | Hedda Gabler | ||
| Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? | |||
| x David Esbjornson |
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The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? |
David Esbjornson is an award-winning director and producer who has worked throughout the United States in regional theatres and on Broadway, and has established strong and productive relationships with some of the profession’s top playwrights,...
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| x Karel Reisz |
Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 - 25 November 2002) was a significant filmmaker active in post–war Britain.
Reisz was a Jewish refugee, one of the 669 rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton. After attending Leighton Park School, he joined the Royal Air Force...
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| x Deryk Mendel | Spiel (world premiere) | ||
| x Charles Nelson Reilly |
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The Gin Game |
Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 – May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show Match Game....
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| x Lisa Jean Murphy | The Red Priest of Venice | ||
| x Kirk Wilson | The Strip | ||
| x Moss Hart |
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Camelot (Original Broadway Production) |
Moss Hart (24 October 1904 – 20 December 1961) was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater.
Hart was born in New York City and grew up at 74 East 105th Street in Manhattan, “a neighborhood not of carriages and hansom cabs,...
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| x George Quick | Insignificant Others | ||
| x David Garcia | Insignificant Others | ||
| x Gregory Mosher | Boy's Life |
Gregory Mosher presently serves as Director of the Columbia University Arts Initiative. He is a Tony Award-winning director and producer of nearly two hundred stage productions – at the Lincoln Center and Goodman Theatres, on and off-Broadway, at...
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| x Cate Blanchett |
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? |
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two SAGs, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th...
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