WordNet
n. someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show [syn: director, theatre director]
Usage examples of "theater director".
I watched Paul go to the bank of elevators, and then another one of my customers, a young kid who was an apprentice theater director I had enlisted at no charge, came up to me.
He was also a very talented theater director, so talented that he'd been chosen as an intern at the local TV station.
There were several officials of the Communist Party of the United States, a few left-wing artist types, including a Negro singer and a minor theater director.
He was a theater director, he said, and he was flying out to California to audition some actors.
And like a theater director and stage manager, placed for a different viewpoint of the actors below them, two figures were observing the little drama being enacted on the platform-stage beneath them.