director

n someone who controls resources and expenditures

Synonyms:: manager, managing director

Types:: bank manager
manager of a branch office of a bank; district manager
a manager who supervises the sales activity for a district; manageress
a woman manager

Type of:: administrator, decision maker
someone who administers a business

n someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show

Synonyms:: theater director, theatre director

Examples:: Harley Granville-Barker
English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946); Elia Kazanjoglous
United States stage and screen director (born in Turkey) and believer in method acting (1909-2003); Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky
Russian actor and theater director who trained his actors to emphasize the psychological motivation of their roles (1863-1938)

Types:: stage director
someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a stage show; art director
the director in charge of the artistic features of a theatrical production (costumes and scenery and lighting)

Type of:: supervisor
one who supervises or has charge and direction of

n the person who directs the making of a film

Synonyms:: film director

Examples:: show 4 examples...; hide 4 examples...; Ingmar Bergman
Swedish film director who used heavy symbolism and explored the psychology of the characters (born 1918); Luis Bunuel
Spanish film director (1900-1983); Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
English film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980); Israel Strassberg
United States actor and film director (born in Austria) who was a leader in developing method acting in the United States (1901-1982)

Type of:: film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker
a producer of motion pictures

n the person who leads a musical group

Synonyms:: conductor, music director

Examples:: show 20 examples...; hide 20 examples...; Leonard Bernstein
United States conductor and composer (1918-1990); Lord Britten of Aldeburgh
major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976); Arthur Fiedler
popular United States conductor (1894-1979); Paul Hindemith
German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963); Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky
United States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for performing the works of contemporary composers (1874-1951); Leonard Constant Lambert
English composer and conductor (1905-1951); Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911); Eugene Ormandy
United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985); Seiji Ozawa
United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935); Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski
United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977); George Szell
United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970); Arturo Toscanini
Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957); Bruno Walter
German conductor (1876-1962); Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber
German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826); Sir Henry Joseph Wood
English conductor (1869-1944); Benjamin David Goodman
United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986); Woodrow Charles Herman
United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987); Alton Glenn Miller
United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944); Arthur Jacob Arshawsky
United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004); John Philip Sousa
a United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932)

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; bandleader
the leader of a dance band; bandmaster
the conductor of a band; drum major
the leader of a marching band or drum corps; drum majorette, majorette
a female drum major

Type of:: musician
artist who composes or conducts music as a profession

n member of a board of directors

Type of:: committee member
a member of a committee

DEFINITIONS OF: director

n someone who controls resources and expenditures

n someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show

n the person who directs the making of a film

n the person who leads a musical group

n member of a board of directors