Directing Books
21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl
Acting and the Target (The) by Declan Donnellan
And Then, You Act by Anne Bogart
Art and Practice of Directing for Theatre (The) by Paul B. Crook
Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball and Michael Langham
Brecht on Theatre by Bertolt Brecht
Changing Direction: A Practical Approach to Directing Actors in Film and Theatre by Lenore Dekoven
Contemporary Stage Directing by George Black
Creating Life Onstage by Marshall Mason
Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
Craig on Theatre by Edward Gordon Craig
Different Every Night by Mike Alfreds
Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television by Judith Weston
Directing: A Miscellany by Simon Usher
Directing for the Stage: A Workshop Guide of Creative Exercises and Projects by Terry John Converse
Directing in Musical Theatre: An Essential Guide by Joe Deer
Directing Kids by Matt Buchanan
Directing Plays by Don Taylor
Directing Plays, Directing People: A Collaborative Art by Mary B. Robinson
Directing Postmodern Theater: Shaping Signification in Performance by Jon Whitmore
Directing Shakespeare: A Scholar Onstage by Sidney Homan
Directing Shakespeare in America: Current Practices by Charles Ney
Directorial Image (The): The Play And The Director by Frank Alonzo McMullan
Director Prepares (A) by Anne Bogart
Director's Craft (The): A Handbook for the Theatre by Katie Mitchell
Director's Eye (The): A Comprehensive Textbook for Directors and Actors by John Ahart
Directors in Rehearsal by Susan Letzler Cole
Directors on Directing edited by Toby Cole and Helen Krich-Chinoy
Dramatic Imagination (The) by Robert Edmond Jones
Empty Space (The) by Peter Brook
Event in Space (An): JoAnne Akalaitis in Rehearsal
Experimental Theatre: From Stanislavski to Peter Brook by James Roose-Evans
From Getting the Gig to Closing Night by Nicole Dominguez Appleby
Fundamentals of Directing by Ric Knowles
Fundamentals of Play Directing by Alexander Dean and Lawrence Carra
Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor
How to Direct a Musical by David Young
How To Read A Play: Script Analysis for Directors by Damon Kiely
Introduction to the Art of Stage Directing (An) by Len Silver
Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals by Arthur Laurents
Meyerhold on Theatre by Vsevolod Meyerhold
Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater by Moises Kaufman and Barbara Pitts McAdams
Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair by Frank Hauser & Russell Reich
On Directing by Harold Clurman
On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the House by Eugenio Barba
On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director by Alexander Mackendrick and Paul Cronin
Open Door (The) by Peter Brook
Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style by Francis Hodge
Play Directing in the School: A Drama Director's Survival Guide by David Grote
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
Sense of Direction (A): Some Observations on the Art of Directing by William Ball
Simple Stage (The): Its Origins in the Modern American Theater (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) by Arthur Feinsod
Sitting In a Dark Theatre - How to Direct a Play and Not Lose Your Mind by Nicole Dominguez Appleby
Staging Modern Playwrights: From Director's Concept to Performance by Sidney Homan
Theatre and Its Double (The) by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal
Theatrical Image (The) by James H Clay
Thinking Like a Director by Michael Bloom
Threads of Time by Peter Brook
Tips: Ideas for Directors by Jon Jory
To The Director by Michael Chekhov
Towards a Poor Theatre by Jerzy Grotowski
Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theatre by Richard Foreman
Vakhtangov Sourcebook (The) by Yevgeny Vakhtangov
Viewpoints Book (The): A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition by Anne Bogart & Tina Landau
Words Into Action: Finding the Life of the Play by William Gaskill
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