Question: The theatre director who did the lyrics for The Comedy of Errors was born in what year?
Context: Santosh Ojha is an Indian film and television actor and theatre director.  In 1999 he started his career in theater before moving to television.  He performed in serials for the television network Doordarshan as well as commercials and corporate films.  He achieved his M.A. in theater from Chandigarh, Panjab University in 2004.  Soon after, he moved to Delhi and was selected for the "Shri Ram Center" Repertory, Mandi House.  Until 2007 he worked in Delhi as a stage actor and theater teacher, acting in plays including "Agni Barkha", "Comedy of Errors", "Three Physicists", "Mati-Gaadi", "Kaali Barf", and "Ek Gadhe ki Atma Katha". The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays.  It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play.  "The Comedy of Errors" (along with "The Tempest") is one of only two of Shakespeare's plays to observe the Unity of Time (classical unities).  It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre numerous times worldwide. Johan Irgens-Hansen (1854–1895) was a Norwegian literary critic, theatre critic and theatre director.  He wrote theatre criticism for the newspapers "Norske Intelligenssedler" and "Dagbladet".  He was theatre director of the Bergen theatre Den Nationale Scene from 1890 to 1895. The Boys from Syracuse is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, based on William Shakespeare's play, "The Comedy of Errors", as adapted by librettist George Abbott.  The score includes swing and other contemporary rhythms of the 1930s.  The show was the first musical based on a Shakespeare play.  "The Comedy of Errors" was itself loosely based on a Roman play, "The Menaechmi, or the Twin Brothers", by Plautus. Ernst Diesen (6 April 1913 – 14 November 1970) was a Norwegian revue and film actor and theatre director.  He was born in Kristiania, and was married to Kari Diesen.  He worked for the revue theatre Chat Noir from 1934 to 1942, and then for the Edderkoppen Theatre.  He acted in several films, including the comedy films "Bør Børson Jr." from 1938, "Den forsvundne pølsemaker" from 1941, "Det æ'kke te å tru" from 1942, and "Pappa tar gull" from 1964.  He was theatre director at Chat Noir from 1950 to 1953. The Comedy of Errors is a musical with a book and lyrics by Trevor Nunn and music by Guy Woolfenden.  It is based on the William Shakespeare play, "The Comedy of Errors", which had previously been adapted for the musical stage as "The Boys from Syracuse" by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George Abbott in 1938.  The London production won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 1977. Amy Jephta is a South African playwright, screenwriter and theatre director.  Works include "Kristalvlakte", "Other People's Lives", "Sonskyn Beperk"' and "While You Weren't Looking".  She is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town and the first recipient of the Emerging Theatre Director's Bursary in South Africa.  Her work has been staged at The Fugard Theatre, The Bush Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre , Jermyn Street Theatre and Theatre503.  Jephta is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab and was one of the Mail & Guardian's 200 Young South Africans in 2013.  Her monologue "Shoes" was performed by James McAvoy and directed by Danny Boyle as part of the 2015 show The Children's Monologues at The Royal Court Theatre. Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre director.  Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.  He has directed dramas for the stage, like "Macbeth", as well as opera and musicals, such as "Cats" (1981) and "Les Misérables" (1985). Officially State Russian Drama Theatre named after Konstantin Stanislavski (Armenian: Կոնստանտին Ստանիսլավսկու անվան ռուսական պետական դրամատիկական թատրոն ), more commonly Stanislavski Russian Theatre, is a state theatre in the Armenian capital of Yerevan located on Abovyan Street in the central Kentron district of the city, next to Charles Aznavour Square.  It was opened in 1937 and named after the Russian actor and theatre director Constantin Stanislavski since 1938.  The theatre director is Alexander Grigoryan since 1965. Jacquetta May is a British writer, actress, and theatre director.  Born in Kent, she went to Bristol University and worked as a theatre actress for 10 years before moving into TV, appearing at the National Theatre, The Royal Exchange and Liverpool Playhouse amongst others.  Theatre roles include Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion", Adriana in "The Comedy of Errors", Olivia in "Twelfth Night", Lady Chatterley in "Lady Chatterley's Lover", Rita in "Educating Rita" and Beverley in "Abigail's Party".
Answer: 1940