Sophie Charlotte AckermannW
Sophie Charlotte Ackermann

Sophie Charlotte Ackermann was a German actress from Berlin.

Friederike von AlvenslebenW
Friederike von Alvensleben

Friederike von Alvensleben (1749-1799), was a German actor and theater director. She was the managing director of a notable theater company, which was famous in Northern Germany during the second half of the 18th-century. She was first married to Karl Theophil Döbbelin and then to Johann Friedrich von Alvensleben (1736-1819).

Effie BancroftW
Effie Bancroft

Marie Effie Wilton, Lady Bancroft (1839–1921) was an English actress and theatre manager. She appeared onstage as Marie Wilton until after her marriage in December 1867 to Squire Bancroft, when she adopted his last name. Bancroft and her husband were important in the development of Victorian era theatre through their presentation of innovative plays at the London theatres that they managed, first the Prince of Wales's Theatre and later the Haymarket Theatre.

Lilian BaylisW
Lilian Baylis

Lilian Mary Baylis CH was an English theatrical producer and manager. She managed the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells theatres in London and ran an opera company, which became the English National Opera (ENO); a theatre company, which evolved into the English National Theatre; and a ballet company, which eventually became The Royal Ballet.

Zulma BouffarW
Zulma Bouffar

Zulma Madeleine Boufflar, known as Zulma Bouffar,, was a French actress and soprano singer, associated with the opéra-bouffe of Paris in the second half of the 19th century who enjoyed a successful career around Europe.

Janey Sevilla CallanderW
Janey Sevilla Callander

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

Maud CarpenterW
Maud Carpenter

Maud Farrington OBE was a British theatre manager, who was the first woman to join the board of the Liverpool Playhouse in 1945.

Bridget D'Oyly CarteW
Bridget D'Oyly Carte

Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte DBE was the granddaughter of the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte and the only daughter of Rupert D'Oyly Carte. She was head of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1948 until 1982.

Ivah Wills CoburnW
Ivah Wills Coburn

Ivah Mae Wills Coburn was an American actress and Broadway producer.

Emma ConsW
Emma Cons

Emma Cons was a British social reformer, strongly committed to women's suffrage. She also campaigned for educational opportunities for the working class, including cheap tickets to Shakespearean drama at the Old Vic Theatre, which she opened in 1880, later managed by her niece Lilian Baylis.

Edith CraigW
Edith Craig

Edith "Edy" Ailsa Geraldine Craig was a prolific theatre director, producer, costume designer and early pioneer of the women's suffrage movement in England. She was the daughter of actress Ellen Terry and the progressive English architect-designer Edward William Godwin, and the sister of theatre practitioner Edward Gordon Craig.

Siobhan DalyW
Siobhan Daly

Siobhán Daly is a British producer and artistic director.

Charlotta DjurströmW
Charlotta Djurström

Hedvig Charlotta Djurström was a Swedish stage actress. She was the managing director of the Djurström theater company in 1841-1846. She was one of the leading actresses of the countryside theater in Sweden and Finland during the first half of the 19th-century and referred to as the "Joan of Arc of the Countryside" after her most famous role.

Selina DolaroW
Selina Dolaro

Selina Simmons Belasco Dolaro was an English singer, actress, theatre manager and writer of the late Victorian era. During her career in operetta and other forms of musical theatre, she managed several of her own opera companies and directed the Royalty Theatre in London. She is best remembered as a producer of the original production of Trial by Jury by Gilbert and Sullivan. Dolaro sang the title role in the opera Carmen in the first English language version of that opera with the Carl Rosa Opera Company. She also wrote plays and novels.

Thérèse ElfforssW
Thérèse Elfforss

Antoinette Thérèse Elfforss was a Swedish stage actress and theatre director. She was the managing director of the travelling Elfforss Theater Company between 1869 and 1888.

Louise FaganW
Louise Fagan

Patricia Louise Fagan is a producer and director specializing in creative development of artists, productions and arts organizations. She is the founder of Louise Fagan Productions, located in Canada and the United States.

Annie FargéW
Annie Fargé

Annie Fargé was a French actress named "most promising new star in a situation comedy" in 1961 when she played the title role in CBS's Angel. Especially in Europe, she was often credited as "Annie Fargue".

Mary ForbesW
Mary Forbes

Mary Forbes was a British-American film actress, based in the United States in her latter years, where she died. She appeared in more than 130 films between 1919 and 1958.

Louise GranbergW
Louise Granberg

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

Elena GreminaW
Elena Gremina

Elena Anatolievna Gremina was a Russian writer and playwright who was one of the founders of the documentary theatre Teatr.doc. The fact-based approach to creating theatre that Gremina fostered made Teatr.doc a prominent place in the Moscow theatre scene and the New Drama movement in Russian theatre.

Henrietta HodsonW
Henrietta Hodson

Henrietta Hodson was an English actress and theatre manager best known for her portrayal of comedy roles in the Victorian era. She had a long affair with the journalist-turned-politician Henry Labouchère, later marrying him.

Thelma HoltW
Thelma Holt

Thelma Holt is a British theatre producer and former actress.

Annie HornimanW
Annie Horniman

Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman CH was an English theatre patron and manager. She established the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and founded the first regional repertory theatre company in Britain at the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester. She encouraged the work of new writers and playwrights, including W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and members of what became known as the Manchester School of dramatists.

Mary Anne KeeleyW
Mary Anne Keeley

Mary Anne Keeley, née Goward was an English actress and actor-manager.

Jennifer KendalW
Jennifer Kendal

Jennifer Kapoor was an English actress and the founder of the Prithvi Theatre. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the film 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981). Her other film appearances included Bombay Talkie (1970), Junoon (1978), Heat and Dust (1983), and Ghare Baire (1984).

Effie Hinckley Ober KlineW
Effie Hinckley Ober Kline

Effie Hinckley Ober Kline was an American opera manager and booking agent. She founded the Boston Ideal Opera Company in 1879.

Marie LittonW
Marie Litton

Marie Litton was the stage name of Mary Jessie Lowe, an English actress and theatre manager. After beginning a stage career in 1868, Litton became an actor-manager in 1871, producing plays for four years at the Court Theatre, including several by W. S. Gilbert. She also appeared in, and sometimes managed, other West End theatres. In the late 1870s, Litton managed the theatre at the Royal Aquarium, where she had some of her biggest acting successes, including as Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal (1877), Lydia Languish in The Rivals (1878), Miss Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer and Rosalind in As You Like It.

Bonnie LythgoeW
Bonnie Lythgoe

Bonita Lythgoe is a British former dancer who, since the 1990s and 2000s, has been the producer and director of various theatre productions, including pantomimes.

Mary Moore (stage actress)W
Mary Moore (stage actress)

Mary Charlotte Moore, Lady Wyndham, was an English actress and theatrical manager. She was known for her appearances in comedies alongside the actor-manager Charles Wyndham between 1885 and his retirement in 1913. Over these three decades they acted mainly in contemporary plays, many written for them by authors including Henry Arthur Jones and Hubert Henry Davies, but also appeared in classic comedies together. She continued to act on stage until 1919. She was married to the playwright James Albery from 1879 to 1889, and after his death her relationship with Wyndham eventually became romantic. After the death of Wyndham's estranged wife in 1916, he and Moore married.

Sarah MayerW
Sarah Mayer

Sarah Winifred Benedict Mayer (16 October 1896 – 19 March 1957) was an English actress and judoka. She was the first non-Japanese woman to obtain a blackbelt in judo.

Julia McKenzieW
Julia McKenzie

Julia Kathleen Nancy McKenzie, is an English actress, singer, presenter, and theatre director. She has premièred leading roles written by both Alan Ayckbourn and Stephen Sondheim. On television, she is known for her BAFTA Award nominated role as Hester Fields in the sitcom Fresh Fields (1984–1986) and its sequel French Fields (1989–1991), and as Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's Marple (2009–2013).

Mademoiselle MontansierW
Mademoiselle Montansier

Marguerite Brunet, known by her stage name of Mademoiselle Montansier, was a French actress and theatre director.

Olga NethersoleW
Olga Nethersole

Olga Isabella Nethersole, CBE, RRC was an English actress, theatre producer, and wartime nurse and health educator.

Friederike Caroline NeuberW
Friederike Caroline Neuber

Friederike Caroline Neuber, née Friederike Caroline Weissenborn, also known as Friedericke Karoline Neuber, Frederika Neuber, Karoline Neuber, Carolina Neuber, Frau Neuber, and Die Neuberin, was a German actress and theatre director. She is considered one of the most famous actresses and actor-managers in the history of the German theatre, "influential in the development of modern German theatre." Neuber also worked to improve the social and artistic status of German actors and actresses, emphasizing naturalistic technique. During a time when theatrical managers in Germany were predominantly men, Caroline Neuber stands out in history as a remarkably ambitious woman who, during her 25-year career, was able to alter theatrical history, elevating the status of German theatre alongside of Germany's most important male theatrical leaders at the time, such as "her actor-manager husband Johann, the popular stage fool Johann Müller, the major actor of the next generation Johann Schönemann, the multi-talented newcomer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and principally, their de facto Dramaturg, Johann Gottsched."

María PadínW
María Padín

María Padín was a Uruguayan film, radio, and theater actress and producer who had a successful career in Argentina.

Elvira PopescuW
Elvira Popescu

Elvira Popescu was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films.

Emma RomerW
Emma Romer

Emma Romer, afterwards Emma Almond (1814–1868) was a leading British soprano of the 19th century, and for three years a theatre manager and producer.

Susan Douglas RubešW
Susan Douglas Rubeš

Susan Douglas Rubeš C.M. was an Austrian-born Canadian actress and producer. She was sometimes credited as Susan Douglas or Susan Rubes.

Kate SantleyW
Kate Santley

Evangeline Estelle Gazina, better known under her stage name, Kate Santley, was a German-born actress, singer and comedian. After spending her childhood in the US, she came to England in 1861, where she had a successful career, later also becoming a theatre manager.

Shelley M. ShierW
Shelley M. Shier

Shelley M. Shier is a Canadian-American entrepreneur, art consultant, curator, music and theatrical producer.

Emily SoldeneW
Emily Soldene

Emily Soldene was an English singer, actress, director, theatre manager, novelist and journalist of the late Victorian era and the Edwardian period. She was one of the most famous singers of comic opera in the late nineteenth century, as well as an important director of theatre companies and later a celebrated gossip columnist.

Rosemary SquireW
Rosemary Squire

Dame Rosemary Anne Squire, DBE is a British commercial theatre owner and entrepreneur. She was founder, co-owner and joint chief executive of the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) Ltd. Squire and her husband/business partner, Howard Panter, are the second largest shareholder of ATG.

Emma StenningW
Emma Stenning

Emma Stenning is a British arts professional, currently based in Toronto, where she has been the Executive Director of Soulpepper Theatre, since November 2018.

Sarah ThorneW
Sarah Thorne

Sarah Thorne was a British actress and actress-manager of the 19th century who managed the Theatre Royal at Margate for many years. She ran a school for acting there which is widely regarded as Britain's first formal drama school. The Sarah Thorne Theatre Club in Broadstairs is named in her memory.

Lucia Elizabeth VestrisW
Lucia Elizabeth Vestris

Lucia Elizabeth Vestris was an English actress and a contralto opera singer, appearing in works by, among others, Mozart and Rossini. While popular in her time, she was more notable as a theatre producer and manager. After accumulating a fortune from her performances, she leased the Olympic Theatre in London and produced a series of burlesques and extravaganzas, especially popular works by James Planché, for which the house became famous. She also produced his work at other theatres she managed.

Signora ViolanteW
Signora Violante

Signora Violante (1682–1741) was a rope-dancer, acrobat, commedia dell'arte actor and theatre company manager.

Mary WarnerW
Mary Warner

Mary Amelia Warner, née Huddart (1804–1854) was an English actress and theatre manager.

Harriet WaylettW
Harriet Waylett

Harriet Waylett (1798–1851) was an English actress and theatre manager.

Adeline WerlighW
Adeline Werligh

Adeline Werligh was a Danish-Norwegian stage actor and theatre manager.

Mrs. John WoodW
Mrs. John Wood

Mrs. John Wood, born Matilda Charlotte Vining, was an English actress and theatre manager.