Director - Definition and Overview

Generally a director is a person or one of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a government agency, company, corporation, group or project.

List of specific terms known commonly as "director":

• film director
• television director
• theatre director
• cinematographer, director of photography
• music director
• art director
• casting director
• member of a board of directors
• technical director
• funeral director
• choral director
• Macromedia Director multimedia authoring software
• administrator

Other director titles are : executive-director, director-general, associate-director, assistant-director, vice-director, managing director.

A directorate is the agency of a director.