- Lucille Lortel
Lucille Lortel (December 16, 1900-April 4, 1999) was an American actress and theater producer who is remembered as the namesake of an off-Broadway playhouse and theatrical award. Born Lucille Wadler in New York City, Lucille Lortel was originally an actress during the 1920s (she once recollected comparing breast sizes with Helen Hayes). She went on to become an off-Broadway theater producer and impresario with the help of a wealthy husband, … - 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. - Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman (born Gerald Herman on July 10, 1931 in New York City) is an American composer/lyricist of the Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals "Hello, Dolly!", "Mame", and "La Cage aux Folles". - 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". - Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman, born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress. - Alan Menken
Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American Broadway and Academy Award winning film score composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman (1950-1991), Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. He is best known for his work on several Disney animated features, including "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Hercules", "Pocahontas", "Aladdin", … - Andrew Lippa
Andrew Lippa is an American composer, lyricist, book writer, performer, and producer, and the resident artist at the Ars Nova Theater in New York City. He went to Oak Park High School in Oak Park, Michigan. He was born on December 22, 1964 in Leeds, England. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Lippa began work in New York in 1987 as a middle school teacher and administrator at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School. He then went on to a successful music career. - Brooks Atkinson
Brooks Atkinson (November 28, 1894 - January 14, 1984) was the theater critic for "The New York Times" from 1925 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him "the most important reviewer of his time." Atkinson was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, where as a boy he printed his own newspaper (using movable type), and planned a career in journalism. He graduated from Harvard University in 1917, and worked at The Springfield Daily News and The Boston Evening Transcript, … - 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. - Charles Busch
Charles Busch (born August 23, 1954) is an American actor and writer who has appeared in many off-Broadway productions. Busch first came to prominence as both author and performer (as the leading lady, in drag) in plays that simultaneously sent up and celebrated classic film genres. These include "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" (1984), "Psycho Beach Party" (1987), "The Lady in Question" (1989), and "Red Scare on Sunset" (1991). - Lanford Wilson
Eclipse Theatre Company of Chicago is proud to announce Legendary American writer Lanford Wilson as the featured playwright of the 2005 season. Lanford Wilson began writing plays in the early 1960s and has written many memorable ones including Talley's Folly, Balm in Gilead, Burn This, and Fifth of July. His plays explore themes of alienation, loneliness, and crumbling illusions. - 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. - Laura Benanti
Laura Benanti (b. July 15, 1979) is an American musical theatre actress, who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre productions. - Stephen Collins
Stephen Weaver Collins (born October 1 1947) is an American actor. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he was raised in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He attended Amherst College, graduating cum laude. He played bass guitar and rhythm guitar in a number of rock and roll bands at Amherst, including Tambourine Charlie & The Four Flat Tires, The Naugahyde Revolution, and The Flower & Vegetable Show. - Eric Bogosian
Frequently mislabeled as a performance artist, Eric Bogosian is a writer and an actor known for his comedic monologues and social commentary. Born on the East Coast and educated in the Midwest, he wrote and performed numerous one-man shows around New York during the late '70s and early '80s. After doing shows in art spaces like The Kitchen, he eventually had his solo work Fun House committed to video. The 1987 production was taped in front of a live audience. - Sherie Rene Scott
Sherie Rene Scott is an American actress and singer. She has appeared in numerous both Off Broadway and Broadway productions. - Julie White
Julie White (born June 4 1961) is a Tony Award-winning American actress known to television audiences for her supporting role on the ABC sitcom "Grace Under Fire". - Donald Margulies
Donald Margulies (MARG-yoo-leez) is an American playwright whose plays include the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Dinner With Friends". Other plays include "Brooklyn Boy" (2004), "Sight Unseen" (1991) and "Collected Stories" (1996) all of which were commissioned and originally produced by South Coast Repertory. "Sight Unseen" and "Collected Stories" were also both finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. - Scott Ellis
Scott Ellis is a Tony Award-nominated American stage director and television director. He has directed numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway productions, starting with the New York City Opera Company revivals at the New York State Theatre: "A Little Night Music" (1990) and "110 in the Shade" (1992) up to his current show, the musical "Curtains". - Daniel Sullivan
Daniel Sullivan (born June 11, 1940) is an award-winning American theatre and film director and playwright. Born in Wray, Colorado, Sullivan was raised in San Francisco, where he graduated from San Francisco State University. In 1963, he began his professional career as an actor at the city's Actor's Workshop, where he remained for two years. Sullivan worked as both an actor and director with the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in the late 1960s and 70s. - John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963 in El Paso, Texas) is an American writer, actor, and director. He is best known for his motion pictures "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "Shortbus". - 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, … - Hunter Foster
Hunter Foster (b. June 25 1969, Statesboro, Georgia) is an American musical theatre actor/singer, librettist and playwright. Foster was raised in Troy, Michigan and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Michigan in 1992. After graduation he moved to New York City. After touring in several shows and playing on Broadway, he was cast in his breakthrough role, that of "Bobby Strong" in "Urinetown", … - Albert Hall
Albert P. Hall (born November 10, 1937) is an American actor. Born in Brighton, Alabama, Hall graduated from the Columbia University School of the Arts in 1971. That same year he appeared off-Broadway in "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" and on Broadway in the Melvin Van Peebles musical "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death". - Lillias White
Lillias White (born July 21, 1951) is an award-winning American singer and actress. The Brooklyn native made her Broadway debut in "Barnum" in 1981. She understudied the role of Effie in the original 1981 production of "Dreamgirls" and later played the part in the 1987 revival. Additional Broadway credits include the ill-fated "Carrie", "Once on This Island", "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", "Chicago", … - Jerry Zaks
Jerry Zaks (born September 7, 1946) is a multiple Tony Award-winning American Broadway theatre and television director and actor. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, the son of Holocaust survivors, Zaks graduated from Dartmouth College and received a Master of Fine Arts from Smith College. He made his Broadway acting debut in the original production of "Grease" and also appeared in "Tintypes". - George C. Wolfe
George C. Wolfe (b. September 23, 1954) is an African-American playwright and director of theater and film. He is openly gay. Wolfe was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, at the time a heavily-segregated city. As a young child, he attended the all-black private school at which his mother taught, but began attending the integrated Frankfort public school district after a family move. He attended Frankfort High School. There began to pursue his interest in theater, … - Jeff Bowen
Jeff Bowen (born August 30, 1971, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an Obie Award-winning composer, lyricist and actor. He is best known as one of the authors and stars of the off-Broadway musical, "[title of show]". Bowen attended college at Stetson University in Deland, Florida. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. - Orfeh
Orfeh (born on March 28, 1974 as Orfeh Or) is an American singer and Broadway actress from New York City. She originated the role of Annette in the Broadway hit "Saturday Night Fever", as well as starring in "Footloose" and the Gershwins' "Fascinating Rhythm". She has also played Janis Joplin in the off Broadway smash, "Love, Janis". She is currently playing Paulette in the Broadway show "Legally Blonde: The Musical", … - Julia Murney
Julia Murney is an American actress and singer, primarily featured in theatre and television commercial voice-overs. Murney's off-Broadway theatrical credits include Andrew Lippa's "The Wild Party" as "Queenie" at the Manhattan Theatre Club, opposite Brian d'Arcy James, Idina Menzel, and Taye Diggs, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. She was also seen in "The Vagina Monologues", "Crimes of the Heart", "A Class Act", … - 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", … - Jackie Hoffman
Jackie Hoffman (born November 29, 1960) is an American Jewish actress and stand-up comedian best known for her facially-contorting expressions, one-woman shows and rancorous comedy that often focuses on Jewish themes. She is a veteran of Chicago's famed The Second City comedy improv group. - Jeanine Tesori
Jeanine Tesori (formerly known as Jeanine Levenson) is a composer of musicals. She is perhaps best known for the Broadway musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie"; she composed eleven new songs for the show and added them to three from the movie version; four previously written songs from the 1920s were also added to the musical's score. She also composed the music for the Broadway musical "Caroline, or Change", with lyrics by Tony Kushner. - Emily Skinner
Emily Skinner (born June 29, 1970) is an American musical theatre actress and singer. Born in Richmond, Virginia, Skinner attended college at Carnegie Mellon University. She moved to New York in 1992 and took part in a workshop of "Jekyll and Hyde". A few years later, she joined the original cast as an ensemble member and understudy for the leads of Emma and Lucy. Other Broadway credits include "James Joyce's The Dead", "The Full Monty", … - Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones (b. November 29, 1973) is a Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright, actress, and poet. Called "a master of the genre" by "The New York Times", Jones has written and performed four multi-character solo shows, including "Bridge & Tunnel", which was produced Off-Broadway in 2004 by Oscar-winner Meryl Streep, and which went on to Broadway in 2006 and received a special Tony Award. - Victor Garber
Victor Joseph Garber (born on March 16, 1949 in London, Ontario, Canada) is a six-time Emmy Award-nominated Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. Garber began acting at the age of nine, joining the University of Toronto's Hart House at age 15. In 1967 he formed a folk band called The Sugar Shoppe with Peter Mann, Laurie Hood and Lee Harris. - Dylan Baker
Dylan Baker (born October 7, 1959) is an American actor known for playing supporting roles in both major studio movies and independent films. - 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, … - Dominic Chianese
Dominic Chianese (pronounced Key-ah-nes-e) (born February 24, 1931 in Bronx, New York) is an American actor and performer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Corrado Soprano on the HBO TV series, "The Sopranos", a role that netted him two Emmy Award nominations. Chianese is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. He worked as a bricklayer with his father and attended night school during the 1950s, … - Barrett Foa
Barrett Foa (b. September 18 1977 in Manhattan) is an American stage actor. When he was three years old, Foa put together a puzzle in record time, gaining him entry to the prestigious Dalton School. He spent all his remaining school years there. While in high school at Dalton, Foa spent all four summers at Interlochen Arts Camp in upstate Michigan, pursuing his interest in live theater. Later he continued his theatrical studies at the University of Michigan, …
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