Directors are notorious control freaks, and many are known to be workaholics as well. But such descriptors don’t begin to cover the lives of New York’s top theatre directors, who frequently juggle four or more productions at once. They say they wouldn’t have it any other way, but “there is a question as to whether directors may also be stretched thin. [Critics have] complained about the ‘homogeneity’ at three of the city’s top nonprofit theatrical organizations who ‘tend to hire from the same shallow pool of established directors’.”