How to Use stage director in a Sentence

stage director

noun
  • Beck conceived the show and co-wrote some of its songs, and Lapp is the show’s stage director.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
  • The stage director Doug Fitch was teaching a girl the Philippine folk dance Tinikling.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • His stage director, Lileana Blain-Cruz, swept into the room.
    Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Nielsen, the son of a stage director and an actress, grew up near theater’s imagined worlds.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • But those in the audience protested, asking loudly from their seats for the stage directors to turn the lights back up and let Lee speak.
    Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 10 Feb. 2020
  • There, the stage director Frank Corsaro conceived the piece as a dark but enchanting fairy tale.
    Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • This profile of stage director Michael Michetti wasn’t supposed to turn out this way.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Mendes’s themes tend to be shouted rather than implied, as though the stage director in him worries that the half-asleep patron in the final row of the balcony might have missed the point.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Dec. 2019
  • British stage director Rupert Goold will direct the biopic.
    Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Kim Strassburger, who plays Robyn, is much better known for her work as a stage director.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • This time around, the women have a say in the entertainment that Mike — who’s now a stage director — is creating.
    Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Richard Campion was a stage director and Edith an actor.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2022
  • Managers can benefit from knowing how their people perceive work in the same way that a good coach or stage director should have a sense of how their players feel about the game or the show.
    Ian Cook, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Up and stage director Zack Winokur serves as its curator.
    Anne Quito, Quartz, 20 Feb. 2021
  • In an effort to make the Oscar broadcast less lugubrious, Peck had hired the stage director Gower Champion.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2023
  • In 24 hours, seven playwrights will create seven new plays and present them for an audience with the help of seven stage directors and 21 actors.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • Renowned Mexican director Lorena Maza joined the project two years ago as stage director.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Journalist and stage director Isaac Butler, author of a forthcoming book on the topic, points out that defining the method is tricky business.
    Tana Wojczuk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2020
  • The film — overseen by the show’s stage director, Thomas Kail — instead places a kind of visual exclamation point on what a theater audience sees.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 June 2020
  • Adam Driver plays the husband, a stage director, with Scarlett Johansson as his actress wife.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Last summer, original stage director Todd Salovey turned the stage play into a feature-length movie that was filmed in locations around San Diego.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Frank was a great actor and stage director and a wonderful, effective teacher.
    Kenny Leon, ajc, 25 May 2018
  • Fortunately, there is no shortage of stage directors, conductors and singers that can fit the bill for both of these personal attributes.
    WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Garland purchased the three-bedroom retreat in 1947 when she was married to film and stage director Vincente Minnelli.
    Neal J. Leitereg and Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 28 Oct. 2017
  • In addition to his work as an actor and stage director, Grodin wrote plays and screenplays and earned a writing Emmy for a 1977 television special on Paul Simon.
    Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2021
  • Passages Renowned stage director Michael Blakemore died Sunday at 95.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The acting and singing merged magically under the guidance of stage director Russell Fox, who paced the show efficiently.
    David Hendricks, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Riccardo Muti wanted Federico Fellini to serve as the stage director of an opera.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Garduño was renowned in Baja as a stage director as well as an actor and cultural manager with more than fifteen years of experience in the field.
    Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 20 June 2022
  • The production is a remount by stage director Brian Staufenbiel, which premiered two years ago at Minnesota Opera.
    Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 7 Apr. 2018

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