Dream Director

The Dream Director is the Mind Worker in charge of the Dream Productions within Riley Andersen's mind. This role can be seen in parallel to that of virtually anyone creating Inside Out parodies, as both are using moments of Riley's life to produce their own content.

In Inside Out
The Dream Director is introduced together with Dream Productions as a whole. Her first appearance is in the dream set proper, where she hands out scripts to the cast, which she believes to be of top quality. After this final preparation, she thus initiates the dream and gives directions, whereas Fear, watching the dream via the Consciousness Screen on Headquarters, is unamused.

However, as Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong interrupt the dream by bursting in, she is confused, not finding a mention of their roles in the script. Finally, she catches on to the fact that they are intruders, and orders the Subconscious Guards to take Bing Bong away to the Subconscious. Joy and Sadness escape them untouched, but realize that Bing Bong is carrying Riley's Core Memories, and therefore, by necessity, follow along.

The Dream Director is only seen again when Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong escape the Subconscious together with Jangles the Clown. She is initially shocked to feel the ground shaking as Jangles comes in, but her final reaction to him shouting "Who's the birthday girl?!" is unseen.

As the Mind Worker both in charge of Dream Productions and able to order the Subconscious Guards, the Dream Director is arguably the highest-ranking Mind Worker in Riley's mind, not counting the emotions.

In parodies
The Dream Director, so far, has had only one appearance in Russian Inside Out series - Pilot: GGGGGGGGGGGGGG. In the video's last segment, she is giving directions to her cast as usual, as the bearded Mind Worker playing Riley using a megaphone (named "Dream VA Kaitlyn") interrupts, insisting that they were called "a camera". The Dream Director is thus not satisfied with backtalk, and calls for security.

Elsewhere
In PotterPhantomKitten's Intercom, Dream Director Paula (named after Paula Pell, her original VA) is an integral character. As the emotions, whose existence Riley is now aware of, think of ways for her and the emotions to meet, they chance upon a Mind Manual entry on lucid dreaming, and thus come over to Dream Productions, where she agrees to take the Reality Distortion Filter off, thus successfully making Riley appear in her own mind.

In cartuneslover17's The Dream Must Go On!, Dream Director Flora is also an integral character. It is under her direction that Sadness gets an acting role in Dream Productions, in particular as Riley's mother, in a sequence of dreams meant to aid in the slow healing process after Inside Out proper and before the epilogue.

Trivia

 * Unlike the Forgetters and a couple other Mind Workers, the Dream Director has no canon name, and all of the names mentioned originate with fans of Inside Out.