The course aims to offer students an understanding of the tools, methods, skills, and creative resources used by stage directors. During the course, the students will become familiar with the creative means of stage directors and the challenges they face preparing a production. The students will get to know the main creative collaborators of the directors and will get acquainted with the methods of managing the creative teams. Finally, examples of methods of important directors will be presented to help understand the different ways of composing the creative means that the directors dispose of. Students will be asked to prepare (individually or in groups) projects on topics of their choice, focusing on the preliminary work that directors need to prepare for every production.