The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors

Maria M. Delgado is Professor and Vice Principal (Research and Knowledge Exchange) at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She has published widely in Spanish- and Catalan-language theatre and film, and historical memory, film, and performance. Her three monographs and fourteen edited collections include Federico García Lorca (Routledge, 2008), 'Otro' teatro español: supresión e inscripción en la escena española de los siglos XX y XXI (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2017), and the co-edited A History of Theatre in Spain (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Staging Difficult Pasts: Transnational Memory, Theatres, and Museums (Routledge, 2024). Her work has been published in eight languages. Simon Williams is Emeritus Professor of Theater Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published widely in the fields of acting history, Shakespeare in performance, and opera, with previous books including German Actors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Greenwood, 1985) and Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1990). He also co-edited A History of German Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and edited the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting (2015).

• List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction; A–Z director entries; Bibliography; Index.

'During the past century, the dominant artist in theatres in many parts of the world has been the director. This essential reference work provides information on the careers and achievements of over 1,000 of these important artists from around the globe.' Marvin Carlson, Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre and Performance, Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York