This is a list of theatre directors, living and dead, who have been active in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Arabic Speaking edit
Belarusian Speaking edit
Bengali speaking edit
Chinese speaking edit
English speaking edit
- 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
- 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
- Jay Scheib
- 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 edit
French speaking edit
German speaking edit
- 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 edit
Italian speaking edit
Lithuanian speaking edit
Nepali speaking edit
Norwegian speaking edit
Persian speaking edit
Polish speaking edit
- 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 edit
Romanian speaking edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
Slovak speaking edit
Swedish speaking edit
Multilingual edit
- 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 edit
- Lilia Abadjieva (Bulgarian)
- Kemal Başar (Turkish)
- Stancho Stanchev (Bulgarian)