stage director vs director

stage director and director both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stage director	Yes	No	No	No
director	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, director is a hypernym of stage director; that is, director is a word with a broader meaning than stage director:

stage director: someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a stage show
director: someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show

Other hypernyms of stage director include theater director, theatre director.

stage director (noun)	director (noun)
someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a stage show	someone who controls resources and expenditures
	the person who leads a musical group
	someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
	member of a board of directors
	the person who directs the making of a film