Question: What director directed both The Ferryman and Road to Perdition?
Context: Dennis Gersten American actor and director who helped create Stagewrights, Inc. in New York City, a playwrights' theatre company.  There, he wrote "Mine" and the one-acts "Rhetoric" and "Puppy Chow" and directed and performed in original works.  Gersten attended the graduate program in acting at California Institute of the Arts where he wrote "Willie Said To", a finalist with the LA Arts Council and other contests nationally and performed at Playwrights Arena and Unity Players; "Desert - Morning", performed at the Gene Dynarski Theatre; and "Dirty Slut".  Primarily an actor, Gersten performed with Linda Hamilton in the world premiere of "Worse Than Murder: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg" at the Ventura Court Theatre and the west coast premiere of "David and Goliath in America" with the Road Theatre Company, for which he received an ADA Award.  He is a founding member of Theatre Unlimited, where he was seen in "Shoe Man" and "Move Over, Mrs. Markham", and where he directed "The Author’s Thumb", his own adaptation of the works of Henry Fielding, for which Gersten received three ADA Awards, as a director, writer and producer.  He was also nominated for an LA Weekly Theater Award for his performance in "Dirk" at the Road Theatre. The Ferryman is a 2017 play by Jez Butterworth.  It had its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre on 24 April 2017 running to 20 May, directed by Sam Mendes.  It is the fastest-selling play in Royal Court Theatre history.  The cast will include Paddy Considine, Laura Donnelly (the disappearance of her real-life uncle, Eugene Simons, was the inspiration for Butterworth's plot), Genevieve O'Reilly, Bríd Brennan, Fra Fee, John Hodgkinson, Stuart Graham, Gerard Horan, Carla Langley, Des McAleer, Conor MacNeill, Rob Malone, Dearbhla Molloy, Eugene O'Hare and Niall Wright. Where the Money Is is a 2000 drama comedy crime film directed by Marek Kanievska, written by E. Max Frye, and starring Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, and Dermot Mulroney.  This was the next-to-last screen appearance by Newman in his long career in feature films, followed by "Road to Perdition". Linda Melson Harrison (born July 26, 1945) is an American television and film actress, and director and producer, who is internationally renowned for her role as Nova, Charlton Heston's mute mate in the classic science fiction film "Planet of the Apes" (1968) and the first sequel, "Beneath the Planet of the Apes"; she also had a cameo in Tim Burton's 2001 remake of the original.  She was a regular cast member of the 1969-70 NBC television series "Bracken's World".  She was the second wife of film producer Richard D. Zanuck ("Jaws", "Cocoon", "Driving Miss Daisy", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"); her youngest son is producer Dean Zanuck ("Road to Perdition", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"). Sunshine Music Tours And Travels is a 2016 Indian comedy-drama road film, directed by Shailendra Singh and produced by Hayre Entertainment and Percept Pictures.  After producing and distributing 74 films in Bollywood, with Sunshine Music Tours & Travels, Shailendra Singh makes his debut as a director.  The film revolves around the story of two young boys who are chasing their dreams and take up a road journey from Kashmir to Goa along with several strangers.  The film features an ensemble cast of debutantes, including the lead being played by Sunny Kaushal, the son of action director, Sham Kaushal, and younger brother of actor, Vicky Kaushal.  The film was shot in Kashmir, Delhi, Jaipur, Ahemdabad and Goa, while using real time footage of the Sunburn festival of 2015.  The film is a music festival-brand fictional film. The Road Movie trilogy is a series of three road movies directed by German film director Wim Wenders in the mid-1970s.  They include "Alice in the Cities" (1974), "The Wrong Move" (1975), and "Kings of the Road" (1976).  All three films were shot by cinematographer Robby Müller and mostly take place in West Germany.  The centerpiece of the trilogy, "The Wrong Move", was shot in colour whereas "Alice in the Cities" was in black and white 16 mm, and "Kings of the Road" was in black and white 35 mm film. Samuel Alexander Mendes, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director.  He is best known for directing the drama film "American Beauty" (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film "Road to Perdition" (2002), and the "James Bond" films "Skyfall" (2012) and "Spectre" (2015). Incubus (Esperanto: Inkubo ) is a 1966 black-and-white American horror film filmed entirely in the constructed language Esperanto.  It was directed by Leslie Stevens, creator of "The Outer Limits", and stars William Shatner, shortly before he would begin his work on "".  The film's cinematography was by Conrad Hall, who went on to win three Academy Awards for his work on the films "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "American Beauty" and "Road to Perdition". Vernon Zimmerman is an American writer and director who made his feature debut as director with the 1962 short "Lemon Hearts" starring Andy Warhol associate Taylor Mead.  Zimmerman wrote and directed the Claudia Jennings roller derby drive-in film "Unholy Rollers" and collaborated with Terrence Malick on the script to the road movie "Deadhead Miles".  He is most well known for his horror slasher film "Fade to Black", a dark and despairing psychological study of an awkward and alienated hardcore film buff who exacts a harsh revenge on his cruel tormentors.  Zimmerman received a Saturn Award nomination as Best Director for the film, a predecessor to more well-known modern parodies of the horror genre.  Vernon also wrote the scripts for the horror-Western "Hex" (a.k.a. "Charmed"), the redneck crime exploitation film "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw", the made-for-TV wrestling comedy/drama "Mad Bull", the failed TV pilot film "Shooting Stars", and the teen fantasy comedy "Teen Witch".  Zimmerman's latest film is the six-minute comic short "Chuck and Wally on the Road".  More recently Vernon has been working as a script analyst.  He also teaches screen-writing courses at UCLA's Extension and Certificate Program.  Zimmerman also taught classes on both writing feature scripts and directing actors for film and television at the USC School of Cinema and Television.  Vernon Zimmerman lives in Los Angeles and is a member of both the Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America. Road to Perdition is a 2002 American crime film directed by Sam Mendes.  The screenplay was adapted by David Self from the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins.  The film stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig.  The plot takes place in 1931, during the Great Depression, following a mob enforcer and his son as they seek vengeance against a mobster who murdered the rest of their family.
Answer: Sam Mendes