Collaborative Stage Directing: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment by Jean Burgess
-Works as a supplementary book to classic Directing textbooks
-Focuses on the director's collaboration with actors and the creative team and the importance of communication and leadership skills as strategies in creating and managing a healthy working environment.
-Challenges the student with reflective activities, a series of guiding questions to apply to three short plays, and an expanding list of questions to apply to independent directing projects