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What does a theatre director do?
  • Key Stage 3
  • Year 9
  • English
So, a theater director is one of the key creatives involved in putting on a production, and it's really the director's job to take the play, the creative source, the musical, the adaptation, whatever it is, and try and deliver it into three dimensions, hopefully in the way that the writer intended. You work very closely with the writer, if the writer is still alive and present. You also work with a designer. You're in charge of the casting of the place, so you choose the actors. And you work very closely with the producer in the theater to enable you come in on budget, that all the decisions are made at the right time. Design decisions, for example, need to be made in order that their set can be built in the right way in plenty of time. And then your principal role really is when you get into rehearsals where you, in the simplest terms, tell people where to stand, but of course, it's much more complex than that. You're working with the actors, often with the writer in the room to try and discover every moment and to do things in an ordered way so that everybody feels confident that the process is in control, but also feels empowered to do what they do best. I'm not an actor, I'm a director. I'm not a designer. I'm not a sound designer or a projection designer. So, I think the role of the director is to give all those people the room and the flex to do their jobs really well, but also to give them enough decisions to make sure that everybody's heading towards the moment where you enter the theater, and then the moment where you open the show to the public, and then finally, when you open the show to the press in good time in a way that they're all prepared and able to do their best job.
What does a theatre director do?
  • Key Stage 3
  • Year 9
  • English
So, a theater director is one of the key creatives involved in putting on a production, and it's really the director's job to take the play, the creative source, the musical, the adaptation, whatever it is, and try and deliver it into three dimensions, hopefully in the way that the writer intended. You work very closely with the writer, if the writer is still alive and present. You also work with a designer. You're in charge of the casting of the place, so you choose the actors. And you work very closely with the producer in the theater to enable you come in on budget, that all the decisions are made at the right time. Design decisions, for example, need to be made in order that their set can be built in the right way in plenty of time. And then your principal role really is when you get into rehearsals where you, in the simplest terms, tell people where to stand, but of course, it's much more complex than that. You're working with the actors, often with the writer in the room to try and discover every moment and to do things in an ordered way so that everybody feels confident that the process is in control, but also feels empowered to do what they do best. I'm not an actor, I'm a director. I'm not a designer. I'm not a sound designer or a projection designer. So, I think the role of the director is to give all those people the room and the flex to do their jobs really well, but also to give them enough decisions to make sure that everybody's heading towards the moment where you enter the theater, and then the moment where you open the show to the public, and then finally, when you open the show to the press in good time in a way that they're all prepared and able to do their best job.