59 Theatrical people stubs

Carl Morten Amundsen is a Norwegian dramaturg and theatre director.

Pierre Audi is a French-Lebanese theatre director and artistic director.

Bai Renfu, also known as Bai Pu, was a renowned Chinese playwright of the Yuan dynasty.

Frank Baumbauer is a German theater director and artistic director active in the German theater community. He is the son of German casting agent Erna Baumbauer. Baumbauer was from 2001 - 2009 the director of the Munich Kammerspiele.

Arild Brinchmann was a Norwegian stage producer, film producer and theatre director.

Svein Erik Brodal is a Norwegian actor, theatre director, poet, novelist and politician. He made his stage debut at Det Norske Teatret in 1960, and served as theatre director from 1979 to 1990. He was a deputy representative to the Storting from 1997 to 2001.

George Brown was at one time the president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. In 1943, he was tried and convicted with co-conspirator Willie Bioff, of extortion of $1 million from Hollywood film studio producers after threatening them with labor strikes on behalf of the Chicago Outfit.

Janey Sevilla Campbell, née Callander, was a British theatre producer and society hostess.

Eugênia Infante da Câmara (1837–1879) was a Portuguese actress, poet, author and director of plays. active in both Portugal and Brazil. As well as for her own artistic achievements, she is remembered for her affair with, and influence upon, the Brazilian poet Castro Alves. She was born in Lisbon, on April 9, 1837, and died in Rio de Janeiro on May 28, 1874.

Milena Canonero, Dame Grand Cross is an Italian costume designer, who has worked for both film and stage productions. She has won four Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, and been nominated for the award nine times.

Janet Carafa is a mime artist based in New York City and Kauai Hawaii. Janet studied intensively with Marcel Marceau for 12 years and performed as lead company member of the American Mime Theatre directed by Paul J. Curtis for fifteen years.

David Cecil is a British theatre producer. He was arrested in Uganda over a play which references homosexuality on 17 September 2012.

Karl Friedrich Cerf was a German theatrical manager.

Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar (1928–2009) was an exponent of Koodiyattam, a traditional form of Sanskrit theatre from Kerala, which has been recognised by UNESCO as an Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind. Born in a family of Koodiyattam performers, in 1928, at Ammannur, a small hamlet near Irinjalakuda, in Thrissur district in the south Indian state of Kerala, Chakyar had his early training in the art form from within his family. Ammannur Madhava Chakyar, a renowned Koodiyattam performer and a Padmabhushan awardee, was his cousin and the two, later, would evolve a new school of performance, popularly known as the Ammannur tradition of Koodiyattam. When Margi, an institution promoting traditional art forms of Kerala, started their Koodiyattam training centre in 1981, he was the first residential guru. The institution imparted training to many aspiring performers which included two sons of Chakyar, Margi Sajeev Narayana Chakiar and Margi Madhu and both of them are known exponents of the art form. In 1998, Chakyar joined Nepathya, a centre for excellence in Kudiyattam, as the Mukhya Acharya, and continued his association with the institution till his last. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2008, for his contributions to Arts. He died in 2009, at the age of 81. He is remembered by an annual festival, Guru Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar Memorial Kutiyttam Festival, at Moozhikkulam, a suburb of Kochi where Nepathya is headquartered in, and through orations organised by Nepathya.

Gyda Martha Kristine Christensen was a Norwegian actress, dancer, choreographer and Managing Director.

Alvin Colt was an American costume designer. Colt worked on over 50 Broadway shows.

Samuel Eichelbaum was an Argentine writer. He was born the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Villa Domínguez, Entre Ríos, Argentina, Eichelbaum became one of the leading playwrights in the first half of the 20th century in Argentina. He was also a translator.

Anita Elson (1898–1985) was an American dancer and singer who appeared in revues in New York City and London, England, in the early 20th century.

Núria Espert Romero is a theatre and television actress, and theatre and opera director.

Daniel Frohman was an American theatrical producer and manager, and an early film producer.

Britt-Marie Elisabeth Göranzon Malmsjö is a Swedish actress.

Louise Elisabeth Granberg, was a Swedish playwright, translator and theatre director.

Jens Gunderssen was a Norwegian singer, songwriter, actor, stage producer and theatre director.

Lewis Hallam Jr. was an England-born American actor and theater manager, son of Lewis Hallam, one of the pioneers of Theater in the United States, and Sarah Hallam Douglass. He was the leading actor of the Old American Company, at the time the only theater in America, and the manager of the same Company in 1779-1796.

Anton Wilhelm Scheel Heiberg was a Norwegian stage instructor and theatre director.

Staffan Valdemar Holm is a Swedish-German theatre director.

Paul von Joukowsky was a Russian-German scenic designer and writer.

Yazdi Naoshriwan Karanjia is a Gujarati theatre person from India. He is based in Surat and widely noted as one of the doyens of Parsi theatre.

Sam Kasten was a comic actor in Yiddish Theater. A 1925 New York Times article singled out his and Moony Weisenfreund's performances at the People's Theater as among the highlights of that year's Yiddish theater season, describing them as second only to Ludwig Satz. [Melamed 1925]

Elin Karin Klinga is a Swedish actress who took part in several of Ingmar Bergman's late stage productions. As a student Klinga attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. One of Bergman's favourite actresses, she starred in productions including The Image Makers (1998), The Ghost Sonata (2000) and Ghosts (2003).

Arthur Kutscher was a German historian of literature and researcher in drama. Together with Max Herrmann he can be seen as a founding father of theatre studies in Germany. He was a professor at Munich University, where he taught a famous seminar in theatre history. Kutscher was a friend of the iconoclastic dramatist and cabaret-star Wedekind. His work influenced many playwrights, poets, and directors. His students included Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Piscator, Peter Hacks, Hanns Johst, Klabund, and Erich Mühsam. Brecht's first full-length play, Baal, was written in response to an argument in one of Kutscher's drama seminars. While Kutscher was responsible for inspiring an admiration for Wedekind in the young Brecht, he was "bitterly critical" of Brecht's own early dramatic writings.

Zalmon Libin, usually known as Z. Libin, was a writer of short stories and a playwright in Yiddish theater, active around 1900.

Harry Liston was an English comedian and actor who appeared in music hall, variety shows and other entertainments during the Victorian era and in the first decades of the 20th century.

Ernst Lothar was a Moravian-Austrian writer, theatre director/manager and producer.

Tova Dorothea Magnusson, also credited under her former married name as Tova Magnusson Norling, is a Swedish film and television actress; comedian; and film director. She is best known outside Sweden for her role in the Danish-Swedish series The Bridge (2013).

Carl Jonas Love Malmsjö is a Swedish actor who has worked in theatre, TV and radio; he is the son of Swedish actor Jan Malmsjö and the Swedish actress Marie Göranzon. Apart from his work in his native Sweden, which has included a starring role in the TV series Labyrint, he has been in several productions directed by Ingmar Bergman at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He was also cast as Skorpa of the White Horse, a Viking warlord in the second half of The Last Kingdom, a BBC adaptation of the first two books in Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories series of historical novels.

Olof Johan Harald Molander was a Swedish theatre - and film director. He was most notable for his many Strindberg and Shakespeare productions.

John O'Hare is an Australian actor, director and teacher from Sydney, Australia. He has worked in film, television and theatrical productions and is the Artistic Director and Head of Acting at the Actors College of Theatre and Television in Sydney. O'Hare is also the co-founder of O’Punksky’s Theatre Company.

Petre Otskheli was a Georgian modernist set and costume designer who designed in theatre in Georgia and briefly in Moscow. He was put to death during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge at the age of 30, but his scenographic constructivism has had a lasting influence on the Georgian scenic design.

Brock Pemberton was an American theatrical producer, director and founder of the Tony Awards. He was the professional partner of Antoinette Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, and he was also a member of the Algonquin Round Table.

Hanon Reznikov was an American actor and writer.

Ernesto Rossi was an Italian actor and playwright.

Devilal Samar was the founder-director of a folk-theatre museum called the Bharatiya Lok Kala Mandal in Udaipur in Rajasthan in India.He was awarded Padma Shri for his outstanding work. He wrote several books in Hindi about Rajasthani theatre and puppetry.

Ludwig Satz was an actor in Yiddish theater and film, best known for his comic roles. A 1925 New York Times article singles him out as the greatest Yiddish comic actor of the time.

Concordia Cornelia Johanna Selander, née Hård, was a Swedish actress and theatre manager.

Hjalmar Selander was a Swedish actor, stage director and theatre manager.

Lee Simonson was an American architect painter, stage setting designer.

Viktor Andreievich Simov (1858–1935) was a Russian painter and scenographer who pioneered the use of Naturalistic settings.

Charles Dundas Slater (1852–1912), most well known as C. Dundas Slater, was a British theatre manager.

Patrick Ssenjovu is a film and theatre actor. He is additionally a film director and producer.

Jean Tardieu was a French artist, musician, poet and dramatic author.

John Eugene Vedrenne, often known as J. E. Vedrenne, was a West End theatre producer who co-managed the Savoy Theatre with Harley Granville-Barker, and then the Royal Court Theatre. During their time at the latter, they premiered several of George Bernard Shaw's plays, including John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara. His partnership with Granville-Barker ending in 1907, Vedrenne then became associated with Lewis Waller at the Lyric Theatre, and in 1911 with Dennis Eadie at the Royalty Theatre, and later still at the Kingsway Theatre.

Margi Vijayakumar is a noted Kathakali artiste who has specialised in female roles in the classical dance-drama from Kerala, south India. A prominent disciple of the late Padma Shri Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair, he has gained name in his poised handling of Purana characters like Damayanti, Panchali, Mohini and Kunti, mostly opposite star dancer Kalamandalam Gopi.

Gideon Wahlberg was a Swedish actor, screenwriter, film director and theater manager. Wahlberg directed six films including South of the Highway (1936).

John Boles Watson built the first permanent theatre in Cheltenham at York Passage, 1782. Boles Watson also built the Theatre Royal, Gloucester, in 1791 and was closely associated with the Cirencester theatre.

Scott Wittman is an American director, lyricist, composer and writer for Broadway, concerts, and television.

Stanisława Wysocka (1877–1941) was a Polish actress and theatre director. Teacher of Państwowy Instytut Sztuki Teatralnej.

Margarita Xirgu Subirá, also Margarida Xirgu, was a Spanish stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America. A friend of the poet Federico García Lorca, she was forced into exile during Francisco Franco's dictatorship of Spain, but continued her work in America. Notable plays in which she appeared include Como tú me Deseas, La casa de Bernarda Alba, and Mariana Pineda.

Adam Zotovich is a Broadway performer and producer. He is best known for being among the producers of The Color Purple's theatrical adaptation. As of 2014, Zotovich has produced eight shows that have spawned tours, a London engagement and have grossed a total of more than $245 million. As a performer, he has also been credited as an understudy, swing or replacement in shows such as The Wedding Singer, Contact, and revivals of Fiddler on the Roof and Chicago.