Meaning of "stage director" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF STAGE DIRECTOR

stage director  [steɪdʒ dɪˈrɛktə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STAGE DIRECTOR

Stage director is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STAGE DIRECTOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Theatre director

A theatre director or stage director is a director/instructor in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production. The director's function is to ensure the quality and completeness of theatre production and to lead the members of the creative team into realising their artistic vision for it. The director therefore collaborates with a team of creative individuals and other staff, coordinating research, stagecraft, costume design, props, lighting design, acting, set design, stage combat, and sound design for the production. If the production he or she is mounting is a new piece of writing or a translation of a play, the director may also work with the playwright or translator. In contemporary theatre, after the playwright, the director is generally the primary visionary, making decisions on the artistic concept and interpretation of the play and its staging. Different directors occupy different places of authority and responsibility, depending on the structure and philosophy of individual theatre companies.

Definition of stage director in the English dictionary

The definition of stage director in the dictionary is someone who directs actors for a show to be performed on stage.

TRANSLATION OF STAGE DIRECTOR

Find out the translation of stage director to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of stage director from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stage director» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 舞台导演
• Translator English - Spanish: director de escena
• English: stage director
• Translator English - Hindi: मंच निर्देशक
• Translator English - Arabic: مدير المرحلة
• Translator English - Russian: режиссер
• Translator English - Portuguese: encenador
• Translator English - Bengali: মঞ্চ নির্দেশক
• Translator English - French: metteur en scène
• Translator English - Malay: Pengarah pentas
• Translator English - German: Regisseur
• Translator English - Japanese: 演出家
• Translator English - Korean: 무대 감독
• Translator English - Javanese: Direktur tataran
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đạo diễn sân khấu
• Translator English - Tamil: மேடை இயக்குனர்
• Translator English - Marathi: स्टेज दिग्दर्शक
• Translator English - Turkish: tiyatro yönetmeni
• Translator English - Italian: direttore di scena
• Translator English - Polish: reżyser
• Translator English - Ukrainian: режисер
• Translator English - Romanian: regizor
• Translator English - Greek: σκηνοθέτης
• Translator English - Afrikaans: stadium direkteur
• Translator English - Swedish: regissör
• Translator English - Norwegian: sceneinstruktør

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STAGE DIRECTOR»

Discover the use of stage director in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stage director and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Sophocles' Antigone: A New Translation

Diane Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent theatricality. She provides an analytical introduction and comprehensive notes, and the edition includes an essay by director Karen Libman.

‎2011

The Director & The Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski

However, he had little literary education, so it came as a great surprise when shortly after the Duke's wedding to Ellen Franz he was appointed as stage- director. But so successful was he, that in 1875 he took over from the Duke as Intendant ...

Edward Braun, 2014

Edward Gordon Craig: A Vision of Theatre

PLAYGOER Is your belief in a Renaissance of the art based on your belief in the Renaissance of the stage director? STAGE-DIRECTOR Yes, certainly, most certainly. Did you for an instant think that I have a contempt for the stage-director?

Christopher Innes, 2013

The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern ...

Stage-director: And cannot you also understand that they should be willing to be controlled? Consider for a moment the relationship of the men on a ship, and you will understand what I consider to be the relationship of men in a theatre.

Eric Bentley, 1997

The Magic of Opera

Stage Equally important in opera are the stage director and the people Direction who help to make the visual and dramatic production a success, This includes scene, lighting, and costume designers, and technical crew. The stage director is  ...

J. Merrill Knapp, 1972

American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century

In cases where women directors were also company managers, the word director could easily apply to a woman's work as a company (or managing) director rather than as the stage director of a particular production. In some cases the names ...

Anne L. Fliotsos, Wendy Vierow, 2008

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 1: Europe

1915), stage director and scenographer, was director of the Teatr Lalki i Aktora ' Marcinek' (Marcinek Puppet and Actor Theatre) in Poznan from 1960 to 1978 and was followed there by Wojciech Wieczorkiewicz (b. 1934), director from 1978 to ...

Peter Nagy, Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Peter Nagy, Phillippe Rouyer, 2013

Essentials of Stage Management

By the Second World War we would recognise a stage management team that consisted of a stage director, a stage manager and an assistant stage manager or two. In repertory theatre the team might have included a 'student stage manager' ...

Peter Maccoy, 2014

Set the Stage!: Teaching Italian Through Theater

STAGE DIRECTOR: Alright, but the rehearsal is right now. Let's go, put every- thing away, let me prepare the second scene of Pirandello's Il giuoco delle parti. By the way, have we solved the problem about the Director? Who is playing the part ...

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Colleen Ryan-Scheutz, 2008

Mozart's Operas

Migliavacca survived several further tours of duty in Vienna as poet and stage director. Metastasio, after 1750, apparently confined his stage directing to dilettante performances at court, and not without complaints about how much of a burden ...

Daniel Heartz, Thomas Bauman, 1990

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STAGE DIRECTOR»

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IRT tech. director hopes stage collapse will raise safety awareness

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – A local stage director said the stage collapse in Westfield prompted a stronger focus on safety in the theatre he works at. He is hopeful ... «WISH-TV, Apr 15»

New Fellowship Program to Advance 25 Early-Career Stage Directors

FYI for those of you who are pursuing careers as stage directors. An opportunity to grow that you might be interested in. Good luck! Maybe this will be the ... «Indie Wire, Nov 14»

Nicholas Martin, 75, Stage Director in New York and New England …

Nicholas Martin, a prominent director in New England regional theater who was nominated for the 2013 Tony Award for best director for his production of ... «New York Times, May 14»