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Milli Bhatia
Milli Bhatia (Chameli Sushila Bhatia, born 1992 or 1993) is an English stage and screen director and dramaturg from East London, twice Olivier-nominated for seven methods of killing kylie jenner and Blue Mist, and Royal Court Associate Director until December 2023.
Mime artist
Mime artist: wordless performer telling stories through body, hand and facial movement, from Greek mimos. Key figures Decroux, Marceau, Lecoq; distinct from British pantomime, clowning and silent film comedy.
Mise-en-scène
Mise-en-scène, French for "placing on stage", is the staging of a theatrical or film work: the organization of actors, scenery, lighting, costume, and framing under a directorial point of view, coined around 1802 and modernized by Antoine in 1887.
Morgan McMichaels
Morgan McMichaels, drag persona of Scotland-born Thomas White (b. 1981), is a Los Angeles drag performer who competed on RuPaul's Drag Race season 2 and All Stars 3, is Chad Michaels's drag daughter, and is known for celebrity impersonations.
Moving head light
A moving head light is an automated stage lighting fixture with a motorized head that pans and tilts under remote control, used at concerts, theaters, and nightclubs.
Myki Meeks
Myki Meeks, stage name of Michael Reichert (born 1995), is an Orlando-based American drag performer who won RuPaul's Drag Race Season 18 in 2026 with four challenge wins, a Drew Barrymore Snatch Game, and a $200,000 prize.
Myrtle Corbin
Myrtle Corbin (Josephine Myrtle Corbin, 1868–1928) was an American sideshow performer, the "Four-Legged Girl," born with dipygus giving her two pelves and four legs; she toured with Barnum & Bailey, married James Clinton Bicknell, and died in Cleburne, Texas.
Natasha Hodgson
Natasha Hodgson, British writer-performer; co-writer, co-composer and original Ewen Montagu in Operation Mincemeat (SpitLip), 2024 Olivier winner; also The Sink creator and Kill the Beast member; distinct from the NTU historian of the same name.
Nathania Ong
Nathania Ong (born 1998) is a Singaporean musical theatre actress, first Singaporean to play Éponine in Les Misérables on the West End and Eliza Hamilton in London's Hamilton; also Cinderella in Into the Woods and Elle Woods in Legally Blonde Singapore.
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, founded 1928 by the Lewisohn sisters and Rita Morgenthau, is a two-year NAST-accredited acting conservatory at 340 East 54th Street, New York, and the birthplace of Sanford Meisner's Meisner Technique.
Nic Chien
Nic Chien (Nicole Beverly Chien, born 2006) is a Filipino theater actor and trans man, son of Lea Salonga and Robert Chien; known as Alice in Matilda (2017), Jack in Into the Woods (2025), and Moritz Stiefel in Spring Awakening (2026).
Nicholas Barasch
Nicholas Barasch, American stage actor and singer; Broadway debut at age ten in the 2009 West Side Story revival; known for Arpad in She Loves Me, Orpheus on the Hadestown tour, and Frederic in Pirates! The Penzance Musical (2025).
Nicholas Christopher (actor)
Nicholas Christopher (born 1990, Bermuda) is an American Broadway actor and singer known for Hamilton (George Washington, Aaron Burr), Sweeney Todd (Pirelli, first Black Sweeney on Broadway), the 2025 Chess revival (Anatoly Sergievsky, 2026 Tony nomination), and Just In Time as Bobby Darin.
Nick Cordero
Nick Cordero (1978–2020), Canadian Broadway actor and Tony nominee born in Hamilton, Ontario, originated Cheech in Bullets Over Broadway, Earl in Waitress, and Sonny in A Bronx Tale; died of COVID-19 complications in Los Angeles. Distinct from the Virginia restaurateur of the same name.
Nikki M. James
Nikki M. James (Nikki Michelle James), American actress, director, and singer born 1981 in Summit, New Jersey; Tony winner for originating Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon, later Ida B. Wells in Suffs and Kirsten McDuffie in Daredevil: Born Again.
Norbert Leo Butz
Norbert Leo Butz (born 1967, St. Louis) is an American stage and screen actor, two-time Tony winner for Best Actor in a Musical (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can), original Fiyero in Wicked, and current Hermes in Hadestown on Broadway.
Norm Lewis
Norm Lewis (born 1963), American baritone actor-singer from Eatonville, Florida; Broadway debut in The Who's Tommy (1993), Tony-nominated Porgy (2012), and first African-American Phantom of the Opera on Broadway (2014-15).
Onya Nurve
Onya Nurve, stage name of Justin Woody, is an American drag performer from Cleveland, Ohio and the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 (2025), the first Ohioan to win, with four challenge wins and a Snatch Game victory as Eddie Murphy.
P. T. Barnum
P.T. Barnum (Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1810-1891) was an American showman who built Barnum's American Museum in New York, promoted Tom Thumb and Jenny Lind, and co-founded the Barnum & Bailey circus.
Parts of a theatre
Parts of a theatre: auditorium (house), stalls, dress circle, proscenium arch, stage configurations (proscenium, thrust, arena), wings, fly tower and grid, orchestra pit, understage machinery, and front-of-house and backstage areas.
Patina Miller
Patina Miller (born 1984, Pageland, South Carolina) is an American actress and singer, Tony winner for Pippin (2013), Olivier- and Tony-nominated for originating Deloris in Sister Act, and star of Raising Kanan.
Patrick Page
Patrick Page, birth name John Patrick Page, is an American stage and screen actor born in 1962, best known for playing villains on Broadway, including Hades in Hadestown.
Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone (born 1949, Northport, NY) is an American Broadway singer and actress, Juilliard-trained, with three Tony Awards (Evita, Gypsy, Company), two Oliviers, and two Grammys.
Paul Lazar
Paul Lazar (born 1955) is an American actor and director who co-founded Big Dance Theater in 1991 and has appeared in more than 30 feature films.
Pepper's ghost
Pepper's ghost is a stage illusion where a brightly lit figure is reflected onto a 45-degree sheet of glass or foil. It premiered in London on December 24, 1862.
Percilla Bejano
Percilla Bejano (Percilla Román/Lauther, 1911–2001), the Monkey Girl and Bearded Lady, was a Puerto Rican-born sideshow performer with hypertrichosis and hyperdontia who married the Alligator Skin Boy, Emmitt Bejano, in 1938 and appeared in Carny (1980).
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook (1925–2022), British theatre and film director; directed RSC landmark King Lear, Marat/Sade, and the trapeze Midsummer Night's Dream, founded CIRT and the Bouffes du Nord in Paris, staged the nine-hour Mahabharata, and wrote The Empty Space.
Peter Hall (director)
Peter Hall (1930–2017) was an English theater and opera director who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company, led the National Theatre from 1973 to 1988, and directed the English-language premiere of Waiting for Godot in 1955.
Petros Adamian
Petros Adamian (Պետրոս Ադամյան) was an Armenian tragedian, poet, and painter who worked in the Ottoman and Russian empires and is regarded as the founder of the Armenian professional theatrical school.
Phan Phương Oanh
Phan Phương Oanh, born 2003 in Hanoi, is Miss World Vietnam 2025 (crowned 29 March 2025), a National Economics University International Business graduate, former Hoa hậu Việt Nam 2022 Top 10 finalist, and Miss World 2026 Director of External Relations.