stage director

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• (Theat.) One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a stage show