Directors We Discussed in Class
This famed director helped create Viewpoints, worked for the SITI company, and when you read them earlier this semester, they said directing can be VIOLENT.
Anne Bogart
This is the process of watching actors audition and putting them in a role.
Casting
This person offers a director research and context for many historical and factual aspects of the play.
Dramaturg
There is a key moment in a play. To place the actor in a powerful position on stage, you should place them here.
center stage
He is the director of films like Beetlejuice, Big Fish, and Edward Scissorhands.
Tim Burton
This famous international director created an a scenic white circus-like Midsummer Night's Dream and said Theatre Can Be DEADLY!
Peter Brook
This is what a director does when telling an actor to move around the space in certain locations. A stage manager usually writes this down with the director.
Blocking
This person aids the director by helping them with notes, blocking maybe some scenes, and working with actors on smaller moments.
Assistant Director
If you need to tell an actor to be louder, you would say they need to do this more.
Project (will take other vocal techniques..possibly)
He is the director of films like Goodfellas, Shutter Island, and The Departed.
Martin Scorsese
She was the person you read all semester and works predominantly in the UK.
Katie Mitchell
In selecting a play or musical to stage, you should look at the cost of production rights--also known as this.
Royalty
We discussed this person is useful in staging moments like stage kisses or physical contact to make this part a smooth part of the rehearsal process
Intimacy choreographer/director
An actor keeps closing off their body to the audience. This is what you tell them to do so the audience can see more of their face and not just their profile.
cheat out or 3/4 or open up
She is the director of works like Selma, A Wrinkle in Time, and When They See Us.
Ava Duvernay
This director was a part of the Group Theatre and discussed some basics of the theatre we read at the beginning of the semester, including ideas like what works in American theatre and what doesn't.
Harold Clurman
This is the technical rehearsal when actors are added to the design elements and you run the show (or go cue to cue).
Wet Tech
This person may be the director too...but they will help a director with all the battle and physical contact scenes.
Fight director/choreographer
Melodrama run (will also accept speed run)
She is the director of movies like Lost in Translation, the Virgin Suicides, and Marie Antoinette.
Sofia Coppola
This director discussed working with a woman co-director, but didn't speak of it with the highest fondness.
John Lutterbie
This is the night your job is usually finished as a director in professional theatre
Opening night (will accept final dress)
It should be decided during tech rehearsals whether the director or this person will run the rehearsal.
Stage Manager
Katie Mitchell discusses these two elements in analyzing a play to find all the things you know and all the unknowns you might discover in rehearsal.
Facts and Questions
He is the director/screenwriter of films like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Django Unchained.
Quentin Tarantino