- Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of Julian Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber has enjoyed great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both on Broadway and in the West End. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, … - Neil Simon
Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July_4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world. Simon briefly attended New York University in 1946. Two years later, he quit his job as a mailroom clerk in the Warner Brothers offices in Manhattan to write radio and television scripts with his brother Danny Simon. - Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name "Tennessee" was a name given to him by college friends because of his southern accent and his father's background in Tennessee. - Laura Bell Bundy
Laura Bell Bundy (b. April 10, 1981 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a Tony Award-nominated American actress who has been seen in a number of Broadway roles, both starring and supporting, as well as in television and film. Bundy made her stage debut in regional theatre at age 9, originating the role of Tina Denmark in the Off-Broadway show "Ruthless! The Musical". For this part, she was nominated for a 1993 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. - Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedian and radio DJ. Goldberg is one of only ten individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award, counting Daytime Emmy Awards. She is the second African American female performer to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel); she has also won two Golden Globe Awards. - David Mamet
David Alan Mamet (born) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue, arcane stylized phrasing, and for his exploration of masculinity. As a playwright, he received Tony nominations for "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1984) and "Speed-the-Plow" (1988). As a screenwriter, he received Oscar nominations for "The Verdict" (1982) and "Wag the Dog" (1997). - Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is a Tony Award-winning American film and stage actor who is perhaps best known for his role as the title character in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". He also received considerable acclaim for his role as Leo Bloom in "The Producers". - Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally (born), is an American playwright, considered one of the leading American dramatists still writing today. In addition to four Tony Awards, McNally has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild since 1970 and has served as vice-president since 1981. - Jane Krakowski
Jane Krakowski (née Krajkowski, born October 11, 1968 in Parsippany, New Jersey) is a Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Elaine Vassal on "Ally McBeal" and Jenna Maroney on "30 Rock". Krakowski attended Parsippany High School. - Cheyenne Jackson
Cheyenne Jackson (born July 12, 1975) is an American actor and singer from Newport, Washington. Jackson made his Broadway debut understudying both male leads in the Tony Award-winning musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie". He later served as the standby for the character of Radames in "Aida", then originated the role of Matthew in the off-Broadway production of "Altar Boyz". - Laura Benanti
Laura Benanti (b. July 15, 1979) is an American musical theatre actress, who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre productions. - Des McAnuff
Des McAnuff (born June 19, 1952 in Princeton, Illinois) is a Tony award-winning director of such hit Broadway musicals as "Big River" and "The Who's Tommy". He has also produced Tony award-winning revivals of Broadway classics like "Guys and Dolls", "The Music Man", "Into the Woods", "42nd Street", "The King and I", and many others. - Kelli O'Hara
Kelli O'Hara (born April 16, 1977) is an American actress and singer. O'Hara has been nominated for two Tony Awards, one for her performance as Clara Johnson in "The Light in the Piazza", and one for her performance as Babe Williams in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of "The Pajama Game", where she starred alongside Harry Connick Jr. and Michael McKean. - James Lapine
James Lapine is an American theatrical director and librettist. He is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College. Married to screenwriter/director Sarah Kernochan. Theatre first became a part of Lapine’s life when he was hired at Yale as a graphic designer in theatre. Before this he was a photographer, graphic designer and architectural preservationist. Winner of an Obie Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and three Tony Awards for “Best Book of a Musical". - Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga-Chien (born Maria Ligaya Carmen Imutan Salonga on February 22, 1971 in Angeles City) is a Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, and Theatre World award-winning Filipino singer and actress who is best known for her portrayal of Kim in the musical "Miss Saigon". In the field of musical theater, no other Filipino has achieved the same international recognition as Salonga. She has been the first to win various international awards for a single role. - Walter Kerr
Walter Francis Kerr (July 8, 1913 - October 9, 1996) was an American writer and Broadway theater critic. He also was a writer, lyricist, and director of several Broadway musicals. Kerr was born in Evanston, Illinois and graduated from Northwestern University. He became a theater critic for the "New York Herald Tribune" in 1951, then began writing theater reviews for the "New York Times" in 1966. He wrote for the "New York Times" for seventeen years. - Brian Murray
Brian Murray (born September 10 1937) is a South African actor and theatre director. Born in Johannesburg, Murray made his Broadway debut in the play "All in Good Time" in 1965. Two years later he was cast as one of the leads in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", earning the first of three Tony Award nominations for his performance. Murray made his directorial debut with the 1973 revival of "The Waltz of the Toreadors". - Marc Kudisch
Marc Kudisch (born September 22, 1966) is an American stage actor. A native of Hackensack, New Jersey, Kudisch grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He enrolled at Florida Atlantic University to study political science and switched to theatre. After receiving his degree, Kudisch went to New York City and was cast as Conrad Birdie in the Barry Weissler-produced national tour of "Bye Bye Birdie" with Tommy Tune and Ann Reinking. - William Finn
William Finn (born 28 February 1952) is an award-winning American composer and lyricist, especially of musicals. - S. Epatha Merkerson
Sharon Epatha Merkerson (born November 28, 1952) is a Tony Award-nominated and Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Emmy Award-winning American actress. She is known for her roles as Reba the Mail Lady on "Pee Wee's Playhouse" in the 1980s, and as the no-nonsense supervisor, Lt. Anita Van Buren (1993-present) on the long-running television crime drama "Law & Order", in the 1990s. At present she has been on the show longer than any other cast member. - Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, disco, jazz, and pop. Ross first gained prominence as lead of the successful girl group The Supremes, before establishing a successful solo career in 1970. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ross became one of the most successful female artists of the rock era, also crossing over into film, television and Broadway. - Frank Langella
Frank A. Langella, Jr. (born January 1, 1938 or 1940) is an American stage and film actor. He has won three Tony Awards - two for Best Featured (Supporting) Actor in a Play (Edward Albee's "Seascape" (1975), Ivan Turgenev's "Fortune's Fool" (2002)) and one for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's "Frost/Nixon" (2007). - Sam Robards
Sam Robards (born December 16, 1961, in New York City) is an American actor. Robards is the son of Jason Robards and Lauren Bacall. He began his acting career in 1980 in an off-Broadway production of "Album", and made his feature film debut in director Paul Mazursky's 1982 film "Tempest". He married fellow actor Suzy Amis in 1985. The couple divorced in 1993, but produced a son, Jasper. In 1997, he married Danish model Sidsel Jensen, … - Thomas Meehan
Thomas Meehan is a Tony award-winning writer, best known for "Annie" and "The Producers". Meehan graduated from Hamilton College in 1951. He received his first Tony Award in 1977 for writing the book for "Annie", his Broadway debut, and subsequently won for "The Producers" (2001) and "Hairspray" (2002). Additional credits include the musical adaptation of "I Remember Mama", "Ain't Broadway Grand" and "Annie Warbucks", … - David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is a contemporary American playwright who has risen to prominence as the preeminent Asian American dramatist in the U.S. He was born in Los Angeles, California and was educated at Stanford University and the Yale School of Drama. His first play was produced at the Okada House dormitory at Stanford and he briefly studied playwriting with Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes. - Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook (born October 25 1927) is a Tony Award-winning American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after creating roles in the Broadway musicals "Candide" and "The Music Man", among others. In the seventies, she began a second career that continues to this day as a cabaret and concert singer. Cook is widely recognized as one of the "premier interpreters" of musical theatre songs and standards, … - Rick Elice
Rick Elice (born 1956) is a Tony Award winning writer. - William Ivey Long
William Ivey Long is an American 5-time Tony Award-winning costume designer for mainly Broadway plays and musicals including his most notable work on The Producers, Hairspray, Nine, Crazy for You and his newest Tony-winning work on Grey Gardens. He is also currently working on the newest Mel Brooks' musical Young Frankenstein. - Matthew Morrison
Matthew James Morrison (b. October 30, 1978 in California) is an accomplished musical theater actor. After attending theater camp in his youth, he decided that he wanted to be an actor. He was educated at New York University (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. Being a member of boy bands like LMNT and Fresh Step, he made his musical theater transition into similarly styled shows. He had minor roles in "Footloose" as well as the revival of the "Rocky Horror Show". - Richard Greenberg
Richard Greenberg (1958-) is a Tony Award winning American playwright. He is the author of over 25 plays including six South Coast Repertory world premieres: "The Violet Hour", "Everett Beekin", "Hurrah at Last", "Three Days of Rain" (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Olivier, Drama Desk and Hull-Warriner nominations), "Night and Her Stars" and "The Extra Man". - Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman (born October 22, 1959) is a composer, lyricist, arranger and performer for films, television and theatre. His film credits include "Broadcast News", "Beaches", "When Harry Met Sally...", "City Slickers", "The Addams Family", "Sister Act", "Sleepless in Seattle", "A Few Good Men", "The American President", "The First Wives Club", "George of the Jungle", "In & Out", … - Doug Wright
Doug Wright is an award-winning American playwright, librettist, and screenplay writer. Wright’s play "Quills" premiered at Washington, DC's Woolly Mammoth Theatre in 1995 and subsequently debuted Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. The play recounts the imagined final days in the life of the Marquis de Sade. "Quills" garnered the 1995 Kesselring Prize for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club and, for Wright, … - Jonathan Groff
Jonathan Groff is an American stage performer and TV actor. He was born on March 26, 1985, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Groff is best known for originating the role of Melchior Gabor in the Broadway production of "Spring Awakening". He has been playing the role since the musical's Broadway debut on December 10 2006. He also played the same role in the original Off Broadway production earlier during the summer of 2006. - Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was an iconic American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. A screen legend, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from twelve nominations (Meryl Streep currently holds the record for most overall acting nominations with fourteen). - Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer and producer. Tomlin's body of work, which has spanned over 40 years, has garnered her several Tony Awards and Emmy Awards, as well as a Grammy Award. - Liz Callaway
Liz Callaway (born April 13, 1961) is an American actress and cabaret singer. Born in Chicago, she is the sister of Ann Hampton Callaway, with whom she sang the theme song for the Fran Drescher comedy series "The Nanny" and has performed in a number of stage acts. Among her stage credits are "Baby" (for which she earned a Tony Award nomination), "The Spitfire Grill" (for which she earned a Drama Desk Award nomination), "Merrily We Roll Along", … - Gwen Verdon
Gwyneth Evelyn Verdon (January 13, 1925 - October 18, 2000) was an acclaimed Tony Award-winning American dancer and actress, known professionally as Gwen Verdon. - Jeff Marx
Jeff Marx (born September 10, 1970) is a composer and lyricist of musicals. He is best known for creating the Broadway musical "Avenue Q" with collaborator Robert Lopez. Together, they wrote all the show's 21 songs. Lopez and Marx both write lyrics and they both write music, together, in the same room, at the same time. "Avenue Q" won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical. Lopez/Marx's musical score earned them a 2004 Tony Award. - Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress, particularly well-known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox television network sitcom "Married... with Children". She has since established a film and television career, with major roles in several pictures, such as "Anchorman" and "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead", … - Ann Reinking
Ann Reinking (born November 10, 1949 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actress and dancer, most famous for her association with choreographer Bob Fosse. Reinking originally trained as a ballet dancer. After working as a chorus girl in "Coco", "Wild and Wonderful", and "Pippin", Reinking first came to critical notice as Maggie in "Over Here!" (Theatre World Award).
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