44 French theatre managers and producers

André Antoine was a French actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic who is considered the father of modern mise en scène in France.

Gabriel Astruc was a French journalist, agent, promoter, theatre manager, theatrical impresario, and playwright whose career connects many of the best-known incidents and personalities of Belle Epoque Paris.

Claude Wolf, called Bernard was a 19th-century French actor, singer, playwright and theatre manager.

Eugène Bertrand was a French comedian, theatre managing director and opera house director.

Zulma Madeleine Boufflar, known as Zulma Bouffar,, was a French actress and soprano singer, associated with the opéra-bouffe of Paris in the second half of the 19th century who enjoyed a successful career around Europe.

Jean-Claude Brialy was a French actor and director.

William Bertrand Busnach was a French dramatist.

André Eugene Maurice Charlot was a French impresario known primarily for the highly successful musical revues he staged in London between 1912 and 1937. He also worked as a character actor in numerous feature films.

Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie was a French literary figure and director of the Théâtre Français.

François-Louis Crosnier was a French theatre manager, politician, and playwright, who used the pen name Edmond Crosnier.

Raymond Deslandes, called Raimond Deslandes, was a 19th-century French journalist, playwright and theater manager.

André Cardinal Destouches was a French composer best known for the opéra-ballet Les élémens.

Camille du Locle was a French theatre manager and a librettist. He was born in Orange, France. From 1862 he served as assistant to his father-in-law, Émile Perrin, at the Paris Opéra. From 1870, he was co-director at the Opéra-Comique with Adolphe de Leuven, and sole director from 1874 to 1876. He is best remembered for mounting the original production of Bizet's Carmen in 1875.

Henri Duponchel was in turn a French architect, interior designer, costume designer, stage designer, stage director, managing director of the Paris Opera, and a silversmith. He has often been confused with Charles-Edmond Duponchel, a contemporary who also lived and worked in Paris.

Annie Fargé was a French actress named "most promising new star in a situation comedy" in 1961 when she played the title role in CBS's Angel. Especially in Europe, she was often credited as "Annie Fargue".

Pedro or Pierre Gailhard, full name Pierre Samson Gailhard, was a French opera singer and theatre director.

Gabriel Garran, born May 3, 1929 in Paris, is a French actor and theater director.

Hyacinthe de Gauréault Dumont, called Dumont was a French administrator.

Paul Ginisty was a French writer, columnist and journalist.

Amédée de Jallais was a 19th-century French playwright, operetta librettist and chansonnier.

Victor Koning was a French playwright and librettist.

Jean de Létraz, pen name of Jean Félix Deletraz, was a French playwright, spécialising in vaudeville, who authored nearly 118 plays, among which the most famous is Bichon written in 1935.

Stéphane Lissner is a French theatre director. He has been director of the Paris Opera since July 2014.

Louis Lurine was a 19th-century French homme de lettres, journalist, playwright, novelist and historian.

Max Maurey was a French playwright born in Paris in 1866 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1947. He was also the theatre manager of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1914 to 1940 and from 1944 to 1947, and director of the Théâtre du Grand Guignol.

François-Marie Mayeur, called Mayeur de Saint-Paul, was an 18th–19th-century French actor, playwright and theatre director. He was baptised at Église Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis, hence his pseudonym.

Montdory, pseudonym of Guillaume des Gilberts, was a French actor manager, recognized as "the most powerful tragedian of his day."

Montrouge, born Louis (Émile) Hesnard, was a comic actor in French musical theatre in the second half of the nineteenth century, as well as a theatre manager in Paris.

Jean-Baptiste Nicolet was an 18th-century French actor and manager. He was the eldest son of puppeteer, dance master and violinist Guillaume Nicolet. He set up the Grands-Danseurs du Roi, the predecessor of the Théâtre de la Gaîté.

Jules Noriac, real name Claude, Antoine, Jules Cairon,, was a French journalist, playwright, writer, librettist and theatre director.

Denis-Pierre-Jean Papillon de la Ferté was a connoisseur of art and an administrator of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, the organization in the royal household that was responsible for the design and presentation of fêtes and ceremonies, weddings and funerals, at the court of France, beginning with his appointment in 1756. Even after the coming of the Revolution, he was retained until 1792, to oversee the more overtly Republican events of what had always been political as well as cultural statements; in producing them, the conflicts among the dukes who were Gentilhommes de la Chambre, to whom Papillon de la Ferté reported and among whom he served as diplomat and peacemaker, also played a role. He was a victim of the Reign of Terror in 1794.

Émile-César-Victor Perrin was a French painter, mainly known as a theatre director and impresario, born in Rouen on 9 January 1814, died 8 October 1885. His son-in-law was Camille du Locle.

Elvira Popescu was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films.

Octave Pradels was a French poet, novelist, vaudevilliste and lyricist.

Olivier Py is a French stage director, actor and writer.

Gilles Ramade is a French playwright, director, pianist, composer, actor, lyrical singer, conductor, writer, editor and producer.

Pascal Rambert is a French writer, choreographer, and director for the stage and screen. He was born in 1962.

Jean Eugène Ritt was a French actor and theatre director.

Émile Calixte Rochard was a 19th–20th-century French playwright, novelist and poet.

Louis-Victor-Nestor Roqueplan [also sometimes spelled Rocoplan] was a French writer, journalist, and theatre director.

Jacques Louis Eugène Rouché was a French art and music patron. He was the owner of the journal La Grande Revue and manager of the Théâtre des Arts and the Paris Opera.

Alphonse Royer, was a French author, dramatist and theatre manager, most remembered today for having written the librettos for Gaetano Donizetti's opera La favorite and Giuseppe Verdi's Jérusalem. From 1853 to 1856, he was the director of the Odéon Theatre and from 1856 to 1862 director of the Paris Opéra, after which he was appointed France's Inspecteur Général des Beaux-Arts. In his later years, he wrote a six volume history of the theatre and a history of the Paris Opéra. He also translated the theatrical works of the Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi, as well those of the Spanish writers, Miguel de Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. A Chevalier and later Officier of the Légion d'honneur, Royer died in Paris, the city of his birth, at the age of 71.

Jean Vilar was a French actor and theatre director.

Georges Vitaly, real name Vitali Garcouchenko,, was a 20th-century French actor, theater director and theater manager.