But he also has those rare qualities that can be absent from busy directors: patience, kindness, humour and humility.
Due to their multiple board memberships, these directors run the risk of being "busy directors", i.e., they might be board members who simply do not have enough time to engage themselves sufficiently in the concerns of a single company (Core et al. 1999; Fich and Shivdasani 2006; Shivdasani and Yermack 1999).
Francesca Zambello, a busy director of opera and theater and the artistic and executive director of the Glimmerglass Festival, has been appointed artistic adviser of the Washington National Opera - heralding a possible link between the institutions, officials said on Wednesday.
He is aided by the fluid work of his estimable and very busy director, Mr. Gold (also represented this season by "Seminar" on Broadway and the Roundabout Theater Company's "Look Back in Anger" Off Broadway) and a superb cast of eight.
UNCLE VANYA Denis O'Hare will play the title role and Austin Pendleton, a very busy director this season (see also "Fifty Words" and "Lillian Yuralia," above), is the director for this revival of Anton Chekhov's classic about yearning, disappointment and, finally, resignation.
We also explore alternative empirical definitions of what constitutes a busy director and find that commonly used proxies for busyness perform well relative to more complex alternatives.
In the entertaining five-minute animated short (below), Jacobs breaks down three classic optical illusions, explaining that they reveal the "brain's job as a busy director of 3D animation in a studio inside your skull, allocating cognitive energy and constructing a world on the fly with tried and mostly, but not always, true tricks of its own". .
When he turned to television, Mr. Weis quickly became one of its busiest directors.
One of Broadway's busiest directors, Mr. McAnuff said he would not have accepted the job two years ago were it not for the multidirector management structure.
In a fairer world, "Portrait of Jason" would have done what her earlier works didn't — it would have launched her, turned her into one of the most sought-out, most admired, and busiest directors of the time.
A new website for the school states: "In addition to outstanding teachers, the students will have the opportunity to showcase their acting talents in front of James, one of the industry's busiest directors and actors.
