| |  | Jerzy Grotowski was a Polish theatre director and a leading figure in avant garde theatre of the 20th century. Most notable for his work in the... |  | Max Reinhardt (September 9, 1873 - October 30, 1943) was an influential Austrian-American director and actor. He was born as Maximilian Goldmann,... |  | George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, a radio, film and theatre director, a... |  | Ernst Ingmar Bergman (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the 20th century. |  | Kevin Spacey (born July 26, 1959) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor (film and stage) and director. Spacey grew up in California,... |  | Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director. As a stage director, he is probably best known for his 1998... |  | Elia Kazan was a Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and cofounder of the influential... |  | Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 - 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his... |  | Lee Strasberg was an Academy Award nominated American director, actor, producer, and acting teacher. He was born Israel Strassberg in Budzanów, f... |  | Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (2 February 1940?) was a Russian theatrical producer, director, and actor whose provocative experiments in... | |
