List of theatre directors in the 20th and 21st centuries
This is a list of theatre directors, living and dead, who have been active in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Arabic Speaking
Bengali speaking
Chinese speaking
English speaking
- George Abbott
- Maria Aitken
- JoAnne Akalaitis
- Franco Ambriz
- Threes Anna
- Steven Atkinson
- Lucy Bailey
- Dominic Barber
- Neil Bartlett
- John Barton
- Emjo Basshe
- Julian Beck
- Paul Berman
- David Berthold
- Etel Billig
- Anne Bogart
- Lee Breuer
- Mark Brokaw
- Peter Brook
- Robert Brustein
- Hazel Joan Bryant
- Betty Burstall
- Simon Callow
- Annie Castledine
- Joseph Chaikin
- Rachel Chavkin
- Ping Chong
- Harold Clurman
- Victor Correia
- Edward Gordon Craig
- James Dacre
- Howard Davies
- Ian Dickens
- Marcia Milgrom Dodge
- Declan Donnellan
- Mehmet Ergen
- Gale Edwards
- Tim Etchells
- Joel Fink
- Richard Foreman
- Bob Fosse
- Bob Frith
- Frank Galati
- Patrick Garland
- Joel Gersmann
- John Gielgud
- Katie Mitchell
- Andre Gregory
- Tyrone Guthrie
- Peter Hall
- Marcia Haufrecht
- Jeremy Herrin
- Jack Hofsiss
- Michael Howard
- Sophie Hunter[1]
- John Jesurun
- Michael Kahn
- Robert Kalfin
- Helena Kaut-Howson
- Elia Kazan
- Patrick Kinmonth
- Jim Knipple
- Jan Kott
- Wayne Lamb
- Tina Landau
- James Lapine
- Charles Laughton
- Eddie Lawrence
- Walter Learning
- Elizabeth LeCompte
- Robert Lepage
- Robert Lewis
- Tom Littler
- Clare Lizzimore
- Phyllida Lloyd
- Joshua Logan
- Sidney Lumet
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Judith Malina
- Joe Mantello
- Kathleen Marshall
- Rob Marshall
- Jackie Maxwell
- Richard Maxwell
- Michael Mayer
- Brad Mays
- Des McAnuff
- Simon McBurney
- Guthrie McClintic
- Sam Mendes
- Jorge Merced
- Worthington Miner
- Neil Munro
- Stephen Murphy
- Christopher Newton
- Mike Nichols
- Trevor Nunn
- Laurence Olivier
- Diane Paulus
- Ralph Pena
- Robin Phillips
- Steven Pimlott
- Hal Prince
- José Quintero
- Agustin Reyes
- Lloyd Richards
- Martin Ritt
- Mark Rylance
- Kate Saxon
- Franklin Schaffner
- Richard Schechner
- Peter Schumann
- Michael Scott
- Peter Sellars
- Andrei Şerban
- Stephen Shank
- Nathaniel Shaw
- Hassard Short
- Leigh Silverman
- Jeanmarie Simpson
- Max Stafford-Clark
- Rebecca Taichman
- Julie Taymor
- Tazewell Thompson
- Sidney Toler
- Russell Treyz
- Craig Walker
- Sam Wanamaker
- Matthew Warchus
- Douglas Turner Ward
- Deborah Warner
- David Warren
- Orson Welles
- James Whale
- Bart Whiteman
- Kate Whoriskey
- Robert Wilson
- Lee Wochner
- George C. Wolfe
- Robert Woodruff
- Mary Zimmerman
Filipino speaking
French speaking
German speaking
- Ruth Berghaus
- Benno Besson
- Bertolt Brecht
- Hans Bunge
- Frank Castorf
- Dieter Dorn
- Erich Engel
- August Everding
- Walter Felsenstein
- Gotz Friedrich
- Jens-Daniel Herzog
- Leopold Jessner
- Fritz Kortner
- Harry Kupfer
- Thomas Ostermeier
- Martin Kušej (bilingual German/Slovenian)
- Peter Lund
- Erwin Piscator
- Max Reinhardt
- Peter Stein
- Karl Heinz Stroux
- Heinz Tietjen
- Nike Wagner
- Wieland Wagner
- Wolfgang Wagner
- Peter Zadek
Hindi speaking
Italian speaking
Lithuanian speaking
Nepali speaking
Norwegian speaking
Persian speaking
Polish speaking
- Erwin Axer
- Richard Boleslavsky
- Kazimierz Dejmek
- Jerzy Fedorowicz
- Jerzy Grotowski
- Adam Hanuszkiewicz
- Stefan Jaracz
- Krzysztof Jasiński
- Tadeusz Kantor
- Jerzy Markuszewski
- Stanisława Perzanowska
- Barbara Sass
- Leon Schiller
- Ludwik Solski
- Włodzimierz Staniewski
- Józef Szajna
- Arnold Szyfman
- Mariusz Treliński
- Andrzej Wajda
- Michał Zadara
- Lidia Zamkow
- Krzysztof Zanussi
- Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
- Aleksander Zelwerowicz
- Feliks Żukowski
Portuguese speaking
Russian speaking
- Nikolay Akimov
- Yevgeny Aryeh
- Lev Dodin
- Anatoly Efros
- Kama Ginkas
- Yuri Lyubimov
- Alexandre Marine
- Vsevolod Meyerhold
- Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
- Nikolai Okhlopkov
- Lev Shekhtman
- Konstantin Stanislavsky
- Alexander Tairov
- Georgy Tovstonogov
- Yevgeny Vakhtangov
- Anatoly Vasiliev
- Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov
- Yury Zavadsky
Serbo-Croatian speaking
- Nebojša Bradić
- Goran Gajić
- Branko Gavella
- Gradimir Gojer
- Zorica Jevremović
- Siniša Kovačević
- Sulejman Kupusović
- Velimir Živojinović Massuka
- Dejan Miladinović
- Ognjenka Milićević
- Branislav Nušić
- Vida Ognjenović
- Tanja Miletić Oručević
- Haris Pašović
- Katja Restović
- Zijah Sokolović
- Mira Trailović
- Mirjana Vukomanović
- Milenko Zablaćanski
- Stevo Žigon
Spanish speaking
- Calixto Bieito
- Alejandra Boero
- Antonio Cunill Cabanellas
- Orestes Caviglia
- Armando Discépolo
- Nuria Espert
- Carlos Gandolfo
- Victor Garcia
- Juan Carlos Gené
- Antonio Larreta
- Jorge Lavelli
- Inda Ledesma
- Cecilio Madanes
- Jorge Merced
- Fanny Mikey
- José Quintero
- Jesusa Rodríguez
- José Tamayo
- Margarita Xirgu
- China Zorrilla
Swedish speaking
Multilingual
- Fouad Awad (Arabic, Hebrew, English)
- Lucien Bourjeily (Arabic, French, English)
- Chandradasan (English, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil)
- Mario Kovač (Croatian, English, Italian)
- Roberto Paci Dalò (English, Italian, German, French, Chinese)
- Stephen Shank (English, French)
- Mihai Timofti (English, French, Italian, Romanian, Russia)
- Rajesh Vedprakash (English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu)
Other
- Lilia Abadjieva (Bulgarian)
- Kemal Başar (Turkish)
- Ingmar Bergman (Swedish)
- Utpal Dutta (Indian)
- Oskaras Koršunovas (Lithuanian)
- Shambhu Mitra (Indian)
- Stancho Stanchev (Bulgarian)