director

In business, person who is elected to the board of directors by shareholders at the annual general meeting of a company. Directors are by law responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders in a company. They appoint managers to run the company on a day-to-day basis.

director

In the theatre, film, or television, a person who conducts rehearsals for actors and coordinates other aspects of production. In early periods of theatre, rehearsals were conducted by the dramatist, the leading actor, or a prompter. From the late 19th century the role of the director in coordinating performance with scenic design, and in providing a stylistic discipline for the actors, became paramount. The director is also expected to provide an interpretation of the theatrical script, and in the cinema may be regarded as the ‘author’ of the film (see auteur theory).

Director

In computing, multimedia software authoring tool published by Macromedia, a company of multimedia software specialists based in San Francisco, California. By 2002 the latest version was Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio, which could create extensible multimedia content utilizing streaming video, including advanced 3D games and learning applications, deployable across multiple media. Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.