Theater Director

Arthur Laurents (born July 14, 1918) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, librettist and stage director. Laurents was born in New York City to a Jewish family. After studying at Cornell University and a stint in the Army, he began writing scripts for...

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese ( in English and in Italian; born November 17, 1942) is an American Academy Award-winning film director, writer, producer and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and...

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 26 March 1973) was an English actor, playwright and composer of popular music. Among his achievements, he received an Academy Certificate of Merit at the 1943 Academy Awards for "outstanding production achievement for In Which...

Moss Hart (October 24 1904 – December 20 1961) was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater. Hart recalled his youth, early career and rise to fame in his autobiography, Act One, adapted to film in 1963, with George Hamilton portraying Hart. ...

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, near the town of...

Karel Reisz (born July 21, 1926, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, died London, United Kingdom, November 252002) was one of the most important filmmakers in post–war Britain. Reisz was a Jew refugee, one of the 669 rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton. After attending Leighton Park...

Sir Trevor Nunn CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre director and film director. He was born in Ipswich, England and educated at Northgate Grammar School, Ipswich and Downing College, Cambridge, where he began his stage career before becoming a trainee...

Hal 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 earned more Tony Awards (21) than any other individual, including eight for directing,...

Joshua Lockwood Logan III (October 5, 1908–July 12, 1988) was a stage and film director and writer. Logan was born in Texarkana, Texas (USA) on October 5, 1908. When he was three, his father died, and his mother remarried when he was nine. He attended Culver Military...

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. Reilly was born in the...

Rob Marshall (born October 17 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.) is an American theater and film director, and choreographer. He is a 6-time Tony nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner whose most noted work includes the 2002 film Chicago...

Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 - July 29, 1998) was an American Academy Award winning 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...

James Lapine (born January 10 1949 in Mansfield, Ohio) is an American theatrical director and librettist. Theatre first became a part of Lapine’s life when he was hired at Yale University as a graphic designer in theatre. Before this he was a photographer, graphic...

Burt Shevelove (September 19 1915 - April 8 1982) was an American musical theater writer, lyricist, librettist, and director. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he graduated from Brown University and Yale (Master's degree). After serving as a volunteer ambulance driver in...

John Caird (December 15, 1820 - July 30, 1898), theologian, born at Greenock and educated at Glasgow, entered the Church of Scotland, of which he became one of the most eloquent preachers. After being a minister in the country and in Edinburgh, he was transferred to...

Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 - July 2, 1987) was a Tony Award-winning American musical theater director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. Born Michael Bennett DiFiglia to a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother in Buffalo, New York, he studied dance and...

Gower Champion (June 22 1919 – August 25 1980) was a Tony Award-winning American theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. Born Gower Carlyle Champion in Geneva, Illinois, he was raised in Los Angeles, California, where he graduated from Fairfax High School . He...

Ron 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 the ensembles of...

Jerry Mitchell is an award-winning American 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. Mitchell's first production as sole...

Currently living in New York City, Dan Fields (Director/Producer) was Resident Director of Disney’s Broadway production of The Lion King, where he assisted director Julie Taymor from its inception. In Seattle, as Resident Director at Annex Theatre, he directed the...

Martin Charnin (born November 24, 1934) is a Tony Award-winning 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...

Geoffrey Holder (born August 1, 1930 in Port of Spain), is a Trinidadian character actor, choreographer, dancer, painter, costume designer, singer and voice-over artist. Holder is known for his unconventional looks (he is 6'6" tall and bald with strong African...

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....

Howard Lindsay (March 29, 1889 - February 11, 1968) was a Broadway producer, playwright, librettist, director and actor. He was born Herman S. Nelke and graduated from Boston Latin School in 1907. Born in Waterford, New York, he is best known for his writing work as...

Abe Burrows (December 18, 1910 – May 17, 1985), was a noted American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage, particularly Broadway. He was born Abram Solman Borowitz in New York City, graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and attended...

Richard Maltby, Jr. (born October 6, 1937, Ripon, Wisconsin) is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He has conceived and directed two Tony Award-winning musicals: Ain't Misbehavin' (1978: Tony, N.Y. Drama Critics, Outer Critics,...

Joseph Anthony (May 24, 1912– January 20, 1993) was an American playwright and director. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Anthony's first Broadway credit was as the author of the 1934 play A Ship Comes In. Three years later he debuted as an actor and appeared in Lady in...

Robert Lewis (March 16, 1909 – November 23, 1997) was an American actor, director, drama 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 longest...

Desmond McAnuff (born June 19, 1952 in Princeton, Illinois) is a Tony award-winning director of such hit Broadway musical as Big River and The Who's Tommy. He has also produced Tony award-winning revivals of Broadway classics like Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, Into...

George Faison (born December 21, 1945 in Washington, D.C.) is an American dancer and choreographer. Faison studied dance with the Jones-Haywood Capitol Ballet and Carolyn Tate of Howard University while attending Dunbar High School. He entered Howard to study...