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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Arabic speaking

• Fouad Awad
• Mohammed Al Shanfari

Belarusian speaking

• Ihnat Bujnicki
• Mikalai Khalezin

Bengali speaking

• Montazur Rahman Akbar
• Debesh Chattopadhyay
• Utpal Dutta
• Goutam Halder
• Manoj Mitra
• Shambhu Mitra
• Natyaguru Nurul Momen
• Mamunur Rashid
• Badal Sarkar
• Bratya Basu

Chinese speaking

• Jiao Juyin
• Li Liuyi
• Wang Chong

English speaking

• George Abbott
• Maria Aitken
• JoAnne Akalaitis
• Franco Ambriz
• Threes Anna
• Libby Appel
• Steven Atkinson
• Lucy Bailey
• Dominic Barber
• Neil Bartlett
• John Barton
• Emjo Basshe
• Julian Beck
• Paul Berman
• David Berthold
• Etel Billig
• Carla Blank
• 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
• Rhodessa Jones
• Michael Kahn
• Robert Kalfin
• Helena Kaut-Howson
• Elia Kazan
• Patrick Kinmonth
• Jim Knipple
• Jan Kott
• Wayne Lamb
• Tina Landau
• Helen Langworthy (1899–1991)
• 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
• Jay Scheib
• Erica Schmidt
• Peter Schumann
• Michael Scott
• Peter Sellars
• Andrei Şerban
• Stephen Shank
• Eve Shapiro
• Nathaniel Shaw
• Hassard Short
• Leigh Silverman
• Jeanmarie Simpson
• Max Stafford-Clark
• Susan Stroman
• 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

• Daisy Avellana
• Lamberto V. Avellana
• Joel Lamangan
• Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo
• Severino Montano
• Mario O'Hara
• Ralph Pena
• Freddie Santos
• Rolando Tinio

French speaking

• Jean Anouilh
• André Antoine
• Antonin Artaud
• Jean Louis Barrault
• Gaston Baty
• Patrice Chéreau
• Jean Cocteau
• Armand Eloi
• Jean Giraudoux
• Louis Jouvet
• Jorge Lavelli
• Robert Lepage
• Lugné-Poe
• Ariane Mnouchkine
• Jeanne Moreau
• Roger Planchon
• Jacques Rivette
• Jerome Savary
• Stephen Shank
• Jean Vilar

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
• Martin Kušej (bilingual German/Slovenian)
• Corny Littmann
• Peter Lund
• Thomas Ostermeier
• Peter Palitzsch
• Claus Peymann
• Erwin Piscator
• Max Reinhardt
• Einar Schleef
• Peter Stein
• Karl Heinz Stroux
• Heinz Tietjen
• Nike Wagner
• Wieland Wagner
• Wolfgang Wagner
• Peter Zadek

Hindi speaking

• Ebrahim Alkazi
• Shamim Azad
• Ram Gopal Bajaj
• Manish Joshi Bismil
• Satyadev Dubey
• Arvind Gaur
• Bharatendu Harishchandra
• Safdar Hashmi
• Rohini Hattangadi
• Prithviraj Kapoor
• B.V. Karanth
• Mohan Maharishi
• Prasanna
• B.M. Shah
• Om Shivpuri
• Habib Tanvir
• Ratan Thiyam
• Bansi Kaul

Italian speaking

• Giorgio Albertazzi
• Eugenio Barba
• Orazio Costa
• Eduardo De Filippo
• Dario Fo
• Paolo Grassi
• Glauco Mauri
• Renzo Ricci
• Luca Ronconi
• Guido Salvini
• Maurizio Scaparro
• Luigi Squarzina
• Giorgio Strehler
• Aldo Trionfo
• Luchino Visconti
• Franco Zeffirelli

Lithuanian speaking

• Dalia Ibelhauptaitė
• Oskaras Koršunovas
• Eimuntas Nekrošius
• Juozas Miltinis
• Rimas Tuminas
• Jonas Vaitkus
• Adolfas Večerskis

Nepali speaking

• Anup Baral
• Hari Prasad Rimal
• Khagendra Lamichhane
• Sunil Pokharel

Norwegian speaking

• Tore Vagn Lid
• Stein Winge

Persian speaking

• Bahram Beyzai
• Hamid Samandarian
• Ali Nassirian

Polish speaking

• Erwin Axer
• Richard Boleslavsky
• Kazimierz Dejmek
• Jerzy Fedorowicz
• Jerzy Grotowski
• Adam Hanuszkiewicz
• Stefan Jaracz
• Krzysztof Jasiński
• Tadeusz Kantor
• Jarosław Kilian
• 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

• Augusto Boal
• Sergio Britto
• Luis Miguel Cintra
• João Garcia Miguel
• Jorge Listopad
• Gerald Thomas

Romanian speaking

• Alexandru Arșinel
• Zaharia Bârsan
• Radu Beligan
• Ion Besoiu
• Toma Caragiu
• Ion Caramitru
• Alexandru Dabija
• Radu Gyr
• Ion Minulescu
• Maia Morgenstern
• Vlad Mugur
• Amza Pellea
• Elvira Popescu
• Vlad Rădescu
• Victor Rebengiuc
• Mihail Sadoveanu
• Zaharia Stancu
• Silviu Stănculescu
• Lucia Sturdza-Bulandra
• Andrei Șerban
• Gábor Tompa
• Dorel Vișan
• George Vraca
• George Mihail Zamfirescu

Russian speaking

• Nikolay Akimov
• Yevgeny Aryeh
• Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
• 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
• Inda Ledesma
• Cecilio Madanes
• Jorge Merced
• Fanny Mikey
• José Quintero
• Jesusa Rodríguez
• José Tamayo
• Margarita Xirgu
• China Zorrilla

Slovak speaking

• Juraj Nvota
• Roman Polák

Swedish speaking

• Lars Amble
• Ingmar Bergman
• Hugo Hansén
• Olof Molander
• Stig Olin
• Peter Oskarson
• Albert Ranft
• Alf Sjöberg

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)
• Stancho Stanchev (Bulgarian)

References

1. "Sophie Hunter Biography".