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Costache or Kostake Aristia was a Wallachian-born poet, actor and translator, also noted for his activities as a soldier, schoolteacher, and philanthropist. A member of the Greek colony, his adolescence and early youth coincided with the peak of Hellenization in both Danubian Principalities. He first appeared on stage at Cișmeaua Roșie in Bucharest, and became a protege of Lady Rallou. She sponsored his voyage to France, where Aristia became an imitator of François-Joseph Talma.

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Costache Caragiale was a Romanian actor and theatre manager who had an important role in the development of the Romanian theatre.

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Ion Horia Leonida Caramitru is a Romanian stage and film actor, stage director and political figure. He was Minister of Culture between 1996 and 2000, in the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) cabinets of Victor Ciorbea, Gavril Dejeu, Radu Vasile, Alexandru Athanasiu, and Mugur Isărescu. Is married with actress Micaela Caracaș and has three sons: Ștefan, Andrei and Matei Caramitru.

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Jules Cazaban (1903-1963) was a Romanian playwright and director.

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Ion Cojar was a Romanian acting teacher, researcher and theatre director. He is the founder of a unique method that revolutionised the Romanian school of acting.

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Lucia Aurora Demetrius was a Romanian novelist, poet, playwright and translator.

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Mircea Diaconu is a Romanian actor, writer and politician.

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György Harag was a Hungarian director and actor from Transylvania, Romania.

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Marcel Janco was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist. He was the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. In the 1910s, he co-edited, with Ion Vinea and Tristan Tzara, the Romanian art magazine Simbolul. Janco was a practitioner of Art Nouveau, Futurism and Expressionism before contributing his painting and stage design to Tzara's literary Dadaism. He parted with Dada in 1919, when he and painter Hans Arp founded a Constructivist circle, Das Neue Leben.

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Yuri Kordonsky is a Russian-born theatre actor and director, now a United States citizen and a professor of directing at the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut. His theatrical career has been mainly in Russia, United States, Hungary, Luxembourg, as well as Romania, where he has been associated with the Bulandra Theatre, National Theatre of Bucharest, Radu Stanca National Theatre", and Timișoara State German Theatre. As of March 2012, at least six of his productions were in the active repertory of the Bulandra.

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Haralamb George Lecca was a Romanian poet, playwright and translator, grandson of artist Constantin Lecca and brother of genealogist Octav-George Lecca, as well as nephew and rival of writer Ion Luca Caragiale. He had an unsettled youth, studying medicine and law for a while, and also reaching a Sub-Officer's rank in the terrestrial army. He debuted in literature under the guidance of Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, who also employed Lecca's services as a medium. His early work was in poetry, often outstandingly macabre, evidencing his familiarity with 19th-century French literature and hinting at a vague affiliation with Symbolism. Briefly a collaborator of Junimea society, then of its dissident wings, Lecca never joined the fledgling Symbolist movement, and spent his later life in relative isolation from all literary circles.

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Horațiu-Valentin Mălăele is a Romanian actor, cartoonist, writer, and theater and film director. In this last capacity he is often associated with the Romanian New Wave.

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Aureliu Manea was a Romanian theatre director, actor, and writer.

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Liviu Dan Puric is a Romanian actor, director, and pantomime artist.

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Constantin Tănase was a Romanian actor and writer for stage, a key figure in the revue style of theater in Romania.

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Lucian Dan Teodorovici is a Romanian writer, scriptwriter and theatre director.

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Gábor Tompa is an internationally renowned Romanian theater and film director, poet, essayist and teacher. Since 2007 he has been Head of Directing at the Theatre and Dance Department of the University of California, San Diego. He is the general and artistic director of the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj since 1990, the theatre is member of the Union of the Theatres of Europe (UTE) since 2008. Founder and artistic director of the Interferences International Theatre Festival in Cluj, Romania. President of the Union of the Theatres of Europe since 2018.

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George Mihail Zamfirescu was a Romanian prose writer and playwright.