- Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is a Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. - Idina Menzel
Menzel holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts . She is married to fellow performer Taye Diggs and appeared on Broadway in Wicked where she received her first Tony award (Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical). (Aug 2005) - Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming (born 27 January 1965) is a Scottish actor known for his film roles in "GoldenEye", as Boris Grishenko; in "X2: X-Men United", as Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler; and on the stage with his Tony Award-winning performance as the Emcee in the highly successful revival of "Cabaret". Cumming has directed, produced, and written films, TV series and plays, voiced several soundtracks, written a book, developed a stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe, … - Patti Lupone
Patti LuPone (born April 21 1949 in Northport, Long Island, New York) is a Tony Award-winning American singer and actress. - Christine Ebersole
Christine Ebersole (b. 21 February 1953) is a two-time Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. Ebersole was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. After appearances on "Ryan's Hope" in 1977 and 1980, … - Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters (born February 28 1948) is an American Tony Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actress and singer. Beginning as a child actress, Peters has established herself as an important stage actress, particularly in musical theatre, as well as a recording star, and an actress in films and television. Peters first reached Broadway in the 1960s. In the 1970s, she took roles in film and television, but in the 1980s returned to theatre, where she has been, … - Audra McDonald
Audra McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is a four-time Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. - Nathan Lane
Nathan Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a Screen Actors Guild Award and Tony Award-winning American actor and comedian of the stage and screen. - Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth (born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth on July 24, 1968) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning American musical theatre, film, and television actress. Chenoweth is a person of small stature (four feet, eleven inches tall and 95 pounds) and has a distinctive speaking voice; in "FHM's" March 2006 issue, she compared her voice to that of Betty Boop. Chenoweth is a coloratura soprano. - 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, … - Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American director, writer, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies. - Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress whose successful and award-winning career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theater", and was one of the nine people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. - Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6 1931) is an American Emmy Award, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Tony Award-winning stage and film director, writer, and producer. Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany, he and his German-Russian Jewish family moved to the United States to flee the Nazis in 1939. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. While attending the University of Chicago in the 1950s, … - Edward Albee
Edward G. (Woody) Connette, Pro-bono Legal Counsel - August Wilson
August Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. Wilson's singular achievement and literary legacy is a cycle of ten plays—two of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama—dubbed "The Pittsburgh Cycle". Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comedy and tragedy of the African-American experience in the 20th century. "This cycle," notes the theater critic Christopher Rawson, "is unprecedented in American theater for its concept, size, and cohesion." - Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster (born March 18 1975) is a Tony Award- winning American actress, singer, and dancer. Foster was born in Statesboro, Georgia and raised in Troy, Michigan. At the age of fifteen, she was a contestant on the television show "Star Search" and also auditioned for the cast of "The Mickey Mouse Club". She left Troy High School, where she had been active in the Troy Theatre Ensemble, … - Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of plays, including celebrated plays such as "The Crucible", "A View from the Bridge", "All My Sons", and "Death of a Salesman", which are still studied and performed worldwide. - Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera (born January 23 1933) is a Tony Award-winning American actress, dancer, and singer known for her musical theater roles. She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero in Washington, D.C. to a Puerto Rican father who played clarinet and saxophone for the Navy band and a mother of mostly Scottish and Italian descent, who went to work for The Pentagon when she was widowed when Chita was seven-years-old (she died in 1983). - Tommy Tune
Tommy Tune (born February 28, 1939) is an award-winning American actor, dancer, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Born Thomas James Tune in Wichita Falls, Texas, he attended Lamar High School in Houston. In 1965, Tune made his Broadway debut as a performer in the musical "Baker Street". His first Broadway directing and choreography credits were for the original production of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" in 1978. - Ben Vereen
Ben Vereen born October 10, 1946 in Laurinburg, North Carolina, is a Tony Award-winning, Golden Globe ,and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, dancer, and singer who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre shows. Vereen graduated from Manhattan's School of Performing Arts. He was nominated for a Tony Award for "Jesus Christ Superstar" in 1972 and won a Tony for his appearance in "Pippin" in 1973. - John Doyle
- David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is a Screen Actors Guild, Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the sitcom "Frasier". - Joe Mantello
Joe Mantello (born 27 December 1962) is a Tony Award-winning American actor and director best known for his work on Broadway productions of "Wicked", "Take Me Out" and "Assassins", as well as earlier in his career being one of the original Broadway cast of "Angels in America". - Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne III (born July 30 1961) is an American Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor of screen and stage, playwright, director, and producer. - Faith Prince
Faith Prince (born August 5, 1957) is an award-winning American actress and singer known primarily for her work on Broadway. She was born in Augusta, Georgia and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she dabbled in theater at E.C. Glass High School. She made her Broadway debut in "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" (1989) and followed this with a role in the ill-fated "Nick & Nora". - Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a Nobel-prize winning American playwright. More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced American drama to the dramatic realism pioneered by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg, and was the first to use true American vernacular in his speeches. His plays involve characters who inhabit the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behavior, … - Christine Baranski
Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an Emmy and Tony Award winning American actress. - 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". - Victoria Clark
Victoria Clark (born October 10, 1959) is an American soprano who won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical in 2005 for her performance in Adam Guettel's "The Light in the Piazza". She also won the Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the Joseph Jefferson Award for her performances in this role. - Susan Stroman
Susan Stroman (born October 17, 1954) is a Tony Award-winning American Broadway director, choreographer, film director, and performer. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Stroman was exposed to show tunes by her piano-playing salesman father. She began studying dance, concentrating on jazz, tap, and ballet at the age of five. She majored in theatre at the University of Delaware; her first professional appearance was in "Hit the Deck" at the Goodspeed Opera House in 1974. - Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is a Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actress who is best known for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the popular HBO dramedy "Sex and the City" (1998-2004). - Marissa Jaret Winokur
Marissa Jaret Winokur (born February 2 1973, New York City) is a Tony Award Winner American actress best known for her performance as Tracy Turnblad in the highly successful Broadway musical adaptation of John Waters' film, "Hairspray". She won Broadway's 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Hairspray", as well as the Drama Desk, Theatre World and Outer Critics Circle awards. - John Lithgow
John Arthur Lithgow (pronounced "lith-go") (born October 19, 1945) is an American actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun". He has also acted on stage, film, and radio. He has earned multiple Emmy Awards and Tony Awards, as well as other honors. He has also recorded music for children. - Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury CBE (born October 16, 1925) is a four-time Tony-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, three-time Oscar-nominated, and eighteen-time Emmy-nominated English actress. Her multi-faceted career has spanned seven decades and she is well-known for her roles on both stage and screen. <br> - Brian Stokes Mitchell
Brian Stokes Mitchell (b. 31 October, 1958, Seattle, Washington) is a current Broadway actor. A powerful baritone, he has been one of the central male star figures of the theatre in the last two decades. His Broadway credits include "Mail" (1988), an all-black revival of George Gershwin's "Oh, Kay!" (1990), "Jelly's Last Jam" (1992) based on the works of jazz artist Jelly Roll Morton, John Kander and Fred Ebb's "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (1993), … - Hugh Jackman
Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October, 1968) is an Australian film producer, and film and stage actor, known for playing Wolverine in "X-Men" and its sequels, and for his Tony Award-winning performance in "The Boy from Oz". - Glenn Close
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is a five time Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. Her success, which has been abundant over the span of her career, has not only allowed her to become a one time Emmy Award- winning TV movie actress, but also a three time Tony Award-winning stage actress. Apart from winning those awards Glenn Close has received nominations for seven Emmys, seven Golden Globes and five Oscars. - John Lloyd Young
John Lloyd Young is a broadway actor who won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 2006 for his role as Frankie Valli in the musical "Jersey Boys", currently playing at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City. The role was his Broadway debut. Young is a graduate of Brown University. After moving to New York, Young worked his way up through the ranks of the theater scene with roles in numerous regional and off-Broadway productions, … - Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE (born as Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937) is an Academy Award winning British playwright of more than 24 plays. Born in Czechoslovakia, he is famous for plays such as "The Coast of Utopia", "The Real Thing", and "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead", and also for co-writing screenplays for "Brazil" and "Shakespeare in Love". - Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor (born December 15 1952) is an American director of Broadway theatre and film. Taymor's work has been received many accolades from critics, and she has won several Tony Awards for her work, noted for its visual flair and colorful costuming choices.
|
| |