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Stagecraft software
Stagecraft software is the family of computer programs used in technical theater, including drafting tools such as Vectorworks Spotlight and WYSIWYG, which integrates CAD, plots, data, visualization, and virtual show control.
Stanislavski's system
Stanislavski's system (Станиславского система), also called the Stanislavski Method or Method of Physical Actions, is Konstantin Stanislavski's theory and methodology of stage acting, developed at the Moscow Art Theatre from 1906 to 1938 around the art of experiencing.
Stella Adler
Stella Adler was an American actress and acting teacher whose New York studio taught an approach built on imagination and script analysis rather than emotional recall.
Stella Adler technique
The Stella Adler technique is an approach to actor training that builds characters from imagination and script analysis rather than the actor's own emotional memory.
Stephanie J. Block
Stephanie J. Block (born 1972, Brea, California) is an American musical theater actress; originated Elphaba on Wicked's first national tour and won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for The Cher Show.
Stephen Daldry
Stephen Daldry (Stephen David Daldry, born 1960, Dorset) is an English director of theatre, film, and television; Royal Court artistic director 1992–1998, director of An Inspector Calls, Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Reader, and The Crown, with three Oscar nominations, three Tony Awards, and an Emmy.
Stubby Kaye
Stubby Kaye (Bernard Kotzin, 1918–1997), American comic actor and singer. Created Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Broadway's Guys and Dolls (1950) and Marryin' Sam in Li'l Abner (1956), repeating both roles on film, and played Marvin Acme in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Suzanne Farrington
Suzanne Farrington (Suzanne Mary Holman, 1933–2015), only daughter of actress Vivien Leigh and Herbert Leigh Holman and ex-stepdaughter of Laurence Olivier; lived privately in England, married Robin Farrington in 1957, and died in Wiltshire in 2015.
Sybil Christopher
Sybil Christopher (born Sybil Williams, 1929–2013), Welsh actress, first wife of Richard Burton, founder of the New York disco Arthur and co-founder and artistic director of Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor.
Sydney James Harcourt
Sydney James Harcourt (born 1979, Detroit) is an American Broadway actor, singer, and dancer, an original Hamilton cast member and first replacement Aaron Burr (700+ performances), 2016 Grammy winner, and originator of Rum Tum Tugger in Cats: The Jellicle Ball.
Tamao Yoshida
Tamao Yoshida (吉田玉男), born Ueda Sueichi in Osaka, was a Japanese Bunraku puppeteer designated a Living National Treasure in 1977, famed for Tokubei in Sonezaki shinjū.
Taylor Louderman
Taylor Louderman (born 1990, Madison, Wisconsin) is an American actress and singer, the original Regina George in Broadway's Mean Girls (2018 Tony nominee), Broadway debut in Bring It On, Kinky Boots, and co-founder of the Write Out Loud songwriting contest.
Terrence Mann
Terrence Vaughan Mann (born 1951, Ashland, Kentucky) is an American actor, singer, and director, original Broadway Rum Tum Tugger in Cats, Javert in Les Misérables, and the Beast in Beauty and the Beast; three-time Tony nominee, also Ug in Critters, Whispers in Sense8, and Brother Dusk in Foundation.
Thayne Jasperson
Thayne Jasperson (born 1980, Provo, Utah) is an American actor, dancer, and singer, original Broadway cast member of Hamilton as Samuel Seabury, the only original cast member still with the show after 10 years and 3,200-plus performances; also Newsies and Matilda original casts.
The Kipper Kids
The Kipper Kids: British performance art duo Brian Routh and Martin von Haselberg, both performing as Harry Kipper, active 1971 onward, known for drunken stylized 'ceremonies' and based in California from the 1970s.
Theater drapes and stage curtains
Theater drapes and stage curtains, known together as soft goods, are the cloth elements used to surround, conceal, and transform a theater stage, from the main curtain to backdrops.
Thomas Kail
Thomas Kail (Tommy Kail, born 1977, Alexandria, Virginia) is the American director of the musicals In the Heights and Hamilton, the 2016 Tony winner, the Disney+ Hamilton film, Fosse/Verdon, Grease Live!, Sweeney Todd, and Disney's live-action Moana.
Thrust stage
Thrust stage: a theatrical stage projecting into the audience with seating on three sides and a backstage area upstage; also called three-quarter stage. Used from Greek and Elizabethan theatres (Shakespeare's Globe) to the Guthrie, Olivier, and RSC theatres.
Tightrope walking
Tightrope walking, or funambulism, is performing on a wire stretched between two points, from ancient rope dancing to circus tightwire, Blondin, Philippe Petit, and Nik Wallenda, distinct from slacklining.
Tom Attenborough
Tom Attenborough (born 1986) is an English theatre director, son of Michael and grandson of Richard Attenborough; former voice of Christopher Robin and Harry Potter, director of The Wasp, Speech and Debate, and Private Lives.
Tommy Bracco
Tommy Bracco, born 1990 in Staten Island, is an American Broadway performer (Newsies, Pretty Woman, The Heart of Rock and Roll) and Big Brother 21 houseguest; also appeared in off-Broadway's Titanique.
Tommy Tune
Tommy Tune (Thomas James Tune, born 1939, Wichita Falls, Texas) is a Broadway dancer, director, and choreographer; ten-time Tony winner, National Medal of Arts recipient, and donor of a 50,000-item archive to the University of Houston.
Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson (Cecil Antonio Richardson, 1928–1991) was an English stage and film director, Royal Court associate artistic director 1956–1964, director of Look Back in Anger (1956) and Oscar-winning Tom Jones (1963); distinct from the NFL fullback and the 2026 North Carolina namesake.
Tony Torn
Tony Torn (born 1965, New York City) is an American actor and director, son of Rip Torn and Geraldine Page, known for Ubu Sings Ubu, directing The Whole of Time, and running the 22-seat Torn Page theater in Chelsea.
Trevor Dion Nicholas
Trevor Dion Nicholas, American musical theatre actor from Morgantown, West Virginia; originated the Genie in the West End Aladdin (WhatsOnStage Award) and played George Washington in West End Hamilton; West End credits include Hadestown, Next to Normal, and Hercules.
Trevor Nunn
Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE (born 1940, Ipswich), English theatre director; RSC artistic director 1968-1986, National Theatre 1997-2003, Haymarket from 2011; directed Cats, Les Misérables, Nicholas Nickleby; Tony and Olivier award winner, knighted 2002.
Trixie Mattel
Trixie Mattel (Brian Michael Firkus, born 1989, Milwaukee) is an American drag queen, singer-songwriter, and comedian; Drag Race season 7 alum, All Stars 3 winner, Trixie Cosmetics founder, and co-host of The Bald and the Beautiful with Katya.
Tyrone Guthrie
Sir Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971), Anglo-Irish theatre director, pioneer of the thrust stage, founding artistic director of the Stratford Festival (1953) and the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis (1963), knighted 1961.
Uta Hagen
Uta Hagen (1919–2004), German-born American Broadway actress and master acting teacher at HB Studio, New York; Tony winner for The Country Girl and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, author of Respect for Acting and creator of the object exercises and substitution technique.
Vanessa Vanjie Mateo
Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, also Miss Vanjie, is an American drag performer, drag daughter of Alexis Mateo, first eliminated on Drag Race season 10 with a viral backwards "Miss Vanjie" exit, then 5th on season 11 and All Stars 9 runner-up.