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Francis Benhamou
Francis Benhamou is an American actress, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and raised in Miami. Known for Arranged (2007) and for winning the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Awards as Elodie in Prayer for the French Republic on Broadway in 2024.
Frank E. Butler
Frank E. Butler (Francis E. Butler), baptized 1847 in County Longford, Ireland, died 1926, was an Irish-born American exhibition marksman, Buffalo Bill's Wild West performer, and manager-husband of Annie Oakley, whom he met losing an 1875 Cincinnati match.
Frankie Grande
Frankie Grande (Frankie James Grande, born 1983) is an American Broadway performer, producer, reality TV personality, and older half-brother of Ariana Grande, known for Mamma Mia!, Rock of Ages, Titanique, Big Brother, and the album Hotel Rock Bottom.
Gabriel Clark (actor)
Gabriel Clark is an English actor, writer, and director from Bolton, Greater Manchester, known for playing Ollie Morgan in Hollyoaks (2019-23) and Mikey Driscoll in Russell T Davies's Tip Toe, and for the OFFIE-winning play The Other Side; not the Montana-based American character actor of the same name.
Gaffer tape
Gaffer tape, also called gaff or gaffa tape, is a matte, cloth-backed pressure-sensitive tape with a clean-release rubber adhesive, used in film, theatre, and live events for cable management, spike marking, and labeling; unlike duct tape it removes without residue but has less aggressive grip.
Gavin Creel
Gavin Creel (1976–2024) was an American Broadway musical theater actor from Findlay, Ohio who won the 2017 Tony Award for Hello, Dolly! and the 2014 Olivier Award for The Book of Mormon, and co-founded Broadway Impact.
Gawdland
Gawdland (ก็อดแลนด์), stage name of Thai drag performer Tharathep Thaweephon born 2002, won RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs the World Season 3, becoming the first Thai, Asian, and non-English-speaking-country winner, after placing third on Drag Race Thailand season 3.
Gene Saks
Gene Saks (Jean Michael Saks, 1921–2015) was an American stage and film director and actor, a three-time Tony winner who directed eight Neil Simon plays on Broadway and films including The Odd Couple and Mame.
George and Willie Muse
George and Willie Muse, also billed as Eko and Iko or the Ambassadors from Mars, were African American albino brothers from Truevine, Virginia, taken from their sharecropping family and exhibited in circus sideshows until their mother Harriett reclaimed them in 1927 and won back wages from Ringling Brothers.
George M. Cohan
George M. Cohan (1878–1942) was an American composer, playwright, producer, and performer of Providence, Rhode Island birth, the "Yankee Doodle Boy" who shaped Broadway musical comedy and wrote "Over There."
George Salazar
George Ernest Salazar (born 1986) is an American actor, singer, and musician known for originating Michael Mell in Be More Chill on and off Broadway, and for Grover in The Lightning Thief, Superstore, and Disney's Snow White.
Georgina Castle
Georgina Castle (born 1992) is an English musical theatre actress and singer trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, known for West End roles as Regina George in Mean Girls, Lucy in 50 First Dates: The Musical, Sophie in Mamma Mia!, and daughter of Andrew Castle.
Gertrude Lawrence
Gertrude Lawrence (Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Klasen, 1898–1952), British actress, singer, and dancer; muse of Noël Coward in Private Lives, star of Lady in the Dark, Tony-winning originator of Anna in The King and I, died during its 1951 Broadway run.
Ghost light (theatre)
Ghost light (theatre): a single bulb left burning on an otherwise dark stage overnight, a safety light against falls into the orchestra pit, wrapped in ghost-appeasing superstition, dated to 1849 and sometimes called an Equity Light.
Gloria Obianyo
Gloria Obianyo (born 1995) is a British actress trained at Rose Bruford College. Known for Uriel in Good Omens, Dune, High Life, and Outlander; she won the 2022 Ian Charleson Award for Paradise and the 2026 UK Theatre Award for As You Like It.
Grady Stiles
Grady Stiles, or "Lobster Boy," was a sideshow performer with ectrodactyly who was convicted of murdering his daughter's fiancé before being killed in a plot by his family.
Green room
Green room: the backstage lounge in theaters, concert venues, and TV studios where performers wait and relax offstage; also called greenroom. Distinct from the dressing room; name origin uncertain, first clear theatrical use in Shadwell's A True Widow (1679).
Gregory Kelly (actor)
Gregory Kelly (1891–1927) was an American Broadway and silent film actor, original star of Seventeen and Kaufman's The Butter and Egg Man, first husband of Ruth Gordon; distinct from later actors named Greg or Gregory Kelly.
Gummo Marx
Gummo Marx (Milton Marx, 1892-1977), fourth performing Marx Brother, vaudeville Nightingales member who left for the Army, replaced by Zeppo, then became a dress businessman and theatrical agent.
Gustaf Gründgens
Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963), German actor, director, and intendant; famous as Goethe's Mephisto; headed the Prussian State Theatre under the Nazis, later led Düsseldorf and Hamburg theatres; model for Klaus Mann's Mephisto.
Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy Rose Lee (Rose Louise Hovick, born Seattle, 1911 or 1914; died 1970) was America's most famous burlesque stripper, known for a witty, barely-revealing tease act, two mystery novels, the 1957 memoir Gypsy, and the 1959 Broadway musical based on her life.
Hannah Cruz
Hannah Cruz (born 1992, Newtown, Connecticut) is an American Broadway actress and singer, a 2026 Tony nominee as Svetlana in Chess, Clarence Derwent Award winner for Suffs and The Connector, and Eliza on the Hamilton tour.
Hannah Lowther
Hannah Lowther is a British musical theatre performer and TikTok creator, the first actress to play all three Heathers in Heathers: The Musical, a West End alternate in SIX, host of the podcast How Very Hannah, and Margot and alternate Elle Woods in the 2026 Legally Blonde UK and Ireland tour.
Hannah Solow
Hannah Solow, NYC actor, singer, and writer; NYU Tisch BFA; understudy in Oh, Mary! on Broadway and formerly to Mike Birbiglia in The New One; Gertie Cummings in the Oklahoma! tour; former UCB performer.
Harold Prince
Harold "Hal" Smith Prince (1928–2019), American Broadway producer and director; record 21 Tony Awards; pioneer of the concept musical with Sondheim; director of Cabaret, Evita, Sweeney Todd, and The Phantom of the Opera; distinct from other Harolds Prince.
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein (born 1954, Brooklyn) is an American actor and playwright, four-time Tony winner for Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage aux Folles, and Hairspray, and a 2025 Special Tony Lifetime Achievement recipient.
HB Studio
HB Studio, also known as the Herbert Berghof Studio, is a nonprofit acting school in New York City founded in 1945 by the Viennese actor Herbert Berghof.
Helen J. Shen
Helen J. Shen (born 2000, Basking Ridge, NJ) is an American actor, singer and writer, she/they, who originated Claire in Broadway's Tony-winning Maybe Happy Ending (2024), earning Theatre World and Clive Barnes Awards and a 2026 Grammy nomination.
Helen Menken
Helen Menken (Helen Meinken, 1901-1966) was an American Broadway and radio actress, Humphrey Bogart's first wife, star of Seventh Heaven and The Old Maid, and organizer of the Stage Door Canteen and the Tony Awards.
Henry Irving
Sir Henry Irving (John Henry Brodribb, 1838-1905), English actor-manager, ran London's Lyceum Theatre from 1878 with Ellen Terry, starred in The Bells and Hamlet, and was the first actor knighted (1895).