# 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

* 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
* John Jesurun
* 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
* 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

* 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)