Begin to narrow production history by using the resources below.
This is not an exhaustive list, but may help you to identify important productions.
This list is not comprehensive. Use it only as a touchstone. Some sources disagree on birthdate, but the dates listed below are within one year.
Robert Atkins (1886 - 1972)
Jean-Louis Barrault (1910 - 1994)
John Barton (1928 - )
Michael Benthall (1919 -1974)
Michael Bogdanov (1938 - )
Michael Boyd (1955 - )
William Bridges-Adams (1889 - 1965)
Peter Brook (1925 - )
Glen Byam Shaw (1904 - 1986)
Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757)
George Devine (1910 - 1966)
Gregory Doran (1958 - )
Richard Eyre (1943 - )
Barbara Gaines (1957 - )
David Garrick (1717 - 1779)
Buzz Goodbody (1947 - 1975)
Rupert Goold (1972 - )
Harley Granville-Barker (1877 - 1946)
Terence Gray (1895 - 1986)
John Gielgud (1904- 2000)
Tyrone Guthrie (1900 - 1971)
Peter Hall (1930 - )
Terry Hands (1941 - )
John Houseman (1902 - 1988)
Nicholas Hytner (1956 - )
Henry Irving (1838 - 1905)
Barry Jackson (1879-1961)
Charles Kean (1811 - 1868)
Charles Kemble (1775 -1854)
Theodore Komisarjevsky (1882 - 1954)
Friedrich Ludwig Schroder (1744 - 1816)
William Charles Macready (1793 - 1873)
Charles Marowitz (1934 - 2014)
Sam Mendes (1965 - )
Jonathan Miller (1934 - )
Ariane Mnouchkine (1939 - )
Yukio Ninagawa (1935 - )
Adrian Noble (1950 - )
Trevor Nunn (1940 - )
Laurence Olivier (1907 - 1989)
Joseph Papp (1921 - 1971)
William Poel (1852 - 1934)
Max Reinhardt (1873 - 1943)
Mark Rylance (1960 - )
Douglas Seale (1913 - 1999)
Alf Sjoberg (1903- 1980)
Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky (1863 - 1938)
Daniel Sullivan (1940 - )
Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853 - 1917)
Deborah Warner (1959- )
Margaret Webster (1905 - 1972)
Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
Clifford Williams (1926 - 2005)
Harcourt Williams (1880 - 1957)
Peter Zadek (1926 - 2009)