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
  • Ingmar Bergman as stage director set the standard for me in this regard.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
  • 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 profile of stage director Michael Michetti wasn’t supposed to turn out this way.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • There, the stage director Frank Corsaro conceived the piece as a dark but enchanting fairy tale.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • Frank was a great actor and stage director and a wonderful, effective teacher.
    — Kenny Leon, ajc, 25 May 2018
  • 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
  • The stage director Doug Fitch was teaching a girl the Philippine folk dance Tinikling.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Nicolas Garcia is stage director, and David Drummond is in charge of the music.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Noel, now an in-demand stage director, is appointed founding director of the Globe.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Renowned Mexican director Lorena Maza joined the project two years ago as stage director.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
  • No stage director was listed in the program, but with singers on a stage extension in front of the orchestra, a few subtle gestures lent striking effects.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Adam Driver plays the husband, a stage director, with Scarlett Johansson as his actress wife.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Engineers may have their hands on the soundboard dials, but Audible likes having a stage director’s fingers all over the production.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Throughout her nine-decade career, Lee won awards as a dancer, actor, teacher, author, stage director, playwright, theater and film consultant and painter.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Riccardo Muti wanted Federico Fellini to serve as the stage director of an opera.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Collaboration has been at the heart of (La)Horde and their next act is with the sculptor and stage director Théo Mercier.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Passages Renowned stage director Michael Blakemore died Sunday at 95.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Other musicians, stage directors, choreographers and dancers may be invited in.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tomer Zvulun, general and artistic director of Atlanta Opera, is the stage director.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2022

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