Julie Harris (born Julia Ann Harris on December 2, 1925) is a distinguished American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards and three Emmy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21 1925 - March 13 2006) was an Academy Award-winning American actress in film, theater and television. She also won an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards and was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

Rosemary Harris (born September 19, 1930) is a Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

Sada Thompson (born September 27, 1929) is an acclaimed American stage, film and television actress. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Thompson first appeared in television in 1954 in a "Goodyear Television Playhouse" production and made her Broadway debut in 1959. She went on to an illustrious career that included a 1972 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for "Twigs", …

Geraldine Fitzgerald (November 24, 1913 - July 17, 2005) was an Academy Awards-nominated Irish/American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

Uta Thyra Hagen was a German-born American actress and acting teacher. Born in Göttingen, Germany, her family emigrated to the United States during her early childhood. She was raised in Madison, Wisconsin. She studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Primarily noted for stage roles, Hagen was a two-time winner of a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, …

Marian Hall Seldes (born August 23, 1928) is an award-winning American stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career has spanned six decades and who was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

Eric Bentley, (born September 14, 1916 in Bolton, Lancashire, England) is a renowned critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator. He became an American citizen in 1948, and currently lives in New York City. In 1998 he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame; he is also a member of the New York Theater Hall of Fame, in recognition of his years of performances in cabarets. In addition to teaching at Columbia University, which he joined in 1953, …

Ming Cho Lee (born 1930, Shanghai) is a prolific American theatrical set designer and a longtime professor at the Yale School of Drama. Lee, born to parents who were both Yale University graduates, moved to the United States in 1949 and attended Occidental College. He first worked on Broadway as a second assistant set designer to Jo Mielziner on The Most Happy Fella in 1956.

Ina Claire was an American stage and film actress. Claire began her career appearing in vaudeville. She performed on Broadway in the musicals "Jumping Jupiter" and "The Quaker Girl" (both 1911) and "Lady Luxury" sophisticated comedienne, and starred on Broadway in plays by some of the leading comic dramatists of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, including the roles of Jerry Lamarr in Avery Hopwood's "The Gold Diggers" (1919), Mrs.

Zelda Fichandler (born September 18, 1924) is an American stage producer, director, and educator, best known as cofounder and longtime artistic director of the Arena Stage theatre in Washington, D.C. Fichandler, her husband Thomas C. Fichandler, and Edward Mangum cofounded Arena Stage in 1950. Zelda Fichandler served as its artistic director from then until her retirement at the end of the 1990-91 season.