The phrase "able directors" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe directors who possess the necessary skills, competence, or capability to perform their roles effectively.
Example: "The company is fortunate to have a team of able directors who guide its strategic vision."
Alternatives: "capable directors" or "competent directors".
But there are many able-bodied directors who do not have Oshima's eye or his economical storytelling.
And Paul Mullins, the able director, has a fine cast of Shakespeare Theater veterans to work with.
He assumed control of the Herbarium in 1934 and served as its very able Director from 1938 to 1963, a period of rapid growth.
Ayckbourn is typically an able director of his work, but here the pacing drags, and the gags of the waiters (all played by Ben Porter) are as leaden as the smooliboos.
The show's able director, Leigh Silverman, doesn't ignore Ensler's self-evident message — that war destroys us in ways that we cannot name and may never be able to communicate — but neither does she let it stand in the way of the characters, who interest her, and occasionally us, with their morbid, earnest dance of death.
"Home," a piece created by its able director, Nadia Fall, shares with "The Same Deep Water As Me" an ability to take us into a corner of contemporary Britain rarely put on stage — in this case, an east London housing project that offers sanctuary and refuge.
Clooney is certainly an able director – even a brilliant one on occasion, as Good Night, and Good Luck demonstrated; he has tried to make a big old fashioned war epic, but in the end has got little bang for his buck.
The able director, Jo Bonney, occasionally has a hard time trying to reign in the sketch comedy, but all in all does a very capable job.
Even a company with the best monitoring practices is a worrisome bet if the lead director is not able, if directors do not bring business leadership to the boardroom, and if directors are not all pulling in the same direction.
