Teaching Directing in Covid Times Posted on: April 12, 2021 By Regge Life. A producer, director and writer for film and television, he is currently the Senior Distinguished Director in Residence at Emerson College in Boston, MA. He is the author of Becoming an Actor’s Director. When the lockdown began in March of 2020, the college where I teach moved all classes online, so the teaching of directing, became problematic. Film and television courses are production classes so there is a lot of collaboration – sharing equipment, assisting each other in close quarters, not to mention the actor/director conversations that for an Actor’s Director, needs to be personal and intimate. So, professors of directing classes had to figure out what to do. I felt at that time, because of the positive feedback I received from students about my techniques of teaching director preparation, that my classes could continue in the online world.