What is the role of a play’s director?
A director’s most important job is to make sure all of the actors are working to a common point; that a play’s center thread is always maintained. It’s to see that the costume designer and the scenic designer are in harmony; that the clothes and the set work together. Overall, a director is what I like to call the ‘most informed member of the audience.’ The job is to help actor’s understand the choices they’re making and how those choices are going to play with the audience. A director gives the actors feedback on how their on stage choices are playing with someone who is sitting away from it. In many ways a director and a conductor are similar. You have these brilliant people who know how to play their instruments, your job is to keep them all together so the music goes as a whole from individuals on stage out to the audience. As a director, do you attend every performance of the play you’re directing? No, normally I get a show through its opening night and at that point the cast has
