What is an Artistic Director?

The artistic director of a theatre has an important role: he (or she) must coordinate all the aspects of a play. and all the people involved in the production. He must oversee all aspects of the staging such as costumes, props and music, and report to the sponsoring group or Board of Directors. On a day-to-day basis, the artistic director can be choosing plays that will run at the theatre, looking after the theatre's budget, hiring the director for a future play or consulting with an existing director, developing the content of a play, scheduling productions or attending meetings. More than just working with people within the theatre community, an artistic director has to deal with the public and with funding bodies. It is his responsibility to get people to come to the theatre, and therefore to know what types of plays people in the community want to see and to make the theatre an inviting place.