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Honey Bruce
Honey Bruce, born Harriett Jolliff and known professionally as Honey Harlow, was an American stripper and showgirl married to comedian Lenny Bruce from 1951 to 1957.
Howard Austen
Howard Austen (born Howard Auster; 1929–2003), American advertising copywriter and Broadway stage manager, Gore Vidal's companion of 53 years; credited on Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955–56).
Hunter Foster
Hunter Foster (born 1969) is an American musical theater actor, director, and writer; original Bobby Strong in Urinetown, Tony-nominated for Little Shop of Horrors, brother of Sutton Foster, and author of Clue: On Stage.
Huseyn Arablinski
Huseyn Arablinski (Hüseyn Ərəblinski), born Huseyn Mammad oglu Khalafov, was an Azerbaijani actor and director who helped found professional Azerbaijani theater; he was murdered in Baku in 1919.
Idina Menzel
Idina Menzel, born Idina Kim Menzel in 1971, is an American actress and singer who originated Elphaba in Wicked, winning the 2004 Tony Award, and voiced Elsa in Frozen.
Impresario
Impresario: organizer and manager of public entertainments, from Italian impresario (impresa, 'undertaking'); English from 1746. Originally the opera-house manager of 18th-century Italy, later an artist's agent; examples include Diaghilev and Händel.
Improvisation
Improvisation, also known as extemporisation or improvising, is the creation of performance without a prepared script, traceable to Viola Spolin's Theater Games in 1930s Chicago.
Ion Cojar
Ion Cojar (1931–2009), Romanian theatre director, acting theorist and professor, founder of a Romanian acting method ('acting is a way of thinking'), director of Teatrul Mic and of the Bucharest National Theatre, author of O poetică a artei actorului.
Isabella Esler
Isabella Esler, Colombian-American actress and singer from San Jose, made her debut as Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice's first national tour, then Broadway, Life After in Toronto, and Heathers Off-Broadway.
Jack Buchanan
Jack Buchanan, also known as Walter John Buchanan, was a British musical-comedy star who dominated the interwar period. He was best known for his role in The Band Wagon (1953).
Jackie Curtis
Jackie Curtis (John Holder Jr., 1947-1985), American Warhol superstar, playwright, poet, and gender-fluid performer of New York's downtown counterculture, author of Vain Victory and Glamour, Glory and Gold, immortalized in Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side'.
Jacques de Falaise
Jacques de Falaise, stage name of Jacques Simon (1754-1825), French performer billed as Le polyphage who swallowed objects and live animals, hired by Louis Comte in 1816, distinct from other Falaise namesakes.
Jacques Lecoq
Jacques Lecoq was a French actor, director, and pedagogue who founded in Paris in 1956 the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, a movement-based school of actor training.
Jak Malone
Jak Malone is an English stage actor from the Wirral, Merseyside, a LIPA graduate who created Hester Leggatt in Operation Mincemeat, winning the 2024 Olivier Award and 2025 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
James Anthony Bailey
James Anthony Bailey (1847-1906), born James Anthony McGinnis, American circus owner and business manager; partner then sole proprietor of Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, the railroad-circus pioneer who died in 1906.
James Monroe Iglehart
James Monroe Iglehart (born 1974, Hayward, California) is an American actor and singer who won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical as the Genie in Broadway's Aladdin, later appearing in Hamilton, Spamalot, and A Wonderful World.
James Ortiz
James Ortiz is an American puppet designer, puppeteer, actor, and director based in New York City, winner of the 2016 Obie for The Woodsman and the 2022 Drama Desk Award for The Skin of Our Teeth, and the puppeteer and voice of Rocky in Project Hail Mary (2026).
Jane Attenborough
Jane Mary Attenborough (1955-2004), English arts administrator, elder daughter of Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim; founding director of Dance UK, creator of the Healthier Dancer Programme, Paul Hamlyn Foundation arts manager; died in the 2004 Khao Lak tsunami.
Jasmine Amy Rogers
Jasmine Amy Rogers (born 1999), also called Jasmine Rogers, is an American musical theater actress and singer who originated Betty Boop in Boop! The Musical on Broadway in 2025, earning a Tony nomination and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World Awards.
Javier Muñoz (actor)
Javier Muñoz, American Broadway actor, replaced Lin-Manuel Miranda as Usnavi in In the Heights (2009) and as Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton (2016–2018); also Shadowhunters, HIV activism, and 2026's Galileo.
Jeff Corey
Jeff Corey (1914–2002), born Arthur Zwerling, was an American character actor and acting teacher who was blacklisted in 1951 and became Hollywood's most influential acting coach.
Jenn Colella
Jenn Colella (born 1974) is an American Broadway actress and singer, Tony-nominated as Captain Beverley Bass in Come From Away, Drama Desk and Grammy winner, Suffs's Carrie Chapman Catt, and adjunct professor at Columbia and Pace.
Jeremy Pope
Jeremy Pope (born 1992, Orlando, Florida) is an American actor and singer, a Tony, Emmy, Grammy, and Golden Globe nominee known for Choir Boy, Ain't Too Proud, Hollywood, The Inspection, and FX's The Beauty.
Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999), Polish director of the Laboratory Theatre, creator of poor theatre and author of Towards a Poor Theatre (1968), later phases of paratheatre and ritual research.
Jillie Mack
Jillie Mack (Jillie Joan Mack), British actress and dancer born 1957 in Devizes, Wiltshire, appeared in London's Cats and married Tom Selleck on August 7, 1987; guest roles include Magnum, P.I., Frasier, and ER.
JJ Niemann
JJ Niemann is an American Broadway actor and TikTok creator, a Book of Mormon swing, original Back to the Future ensemble member and Marty McFly cover, Hamilton's Charles Lee, and the 'King of Theatre TikTok' with over 2.1 million followers.
Joanna Gleason
Joanna Gleason (born Joanne Hall, 1950, Canada), daughter of Monty Hall, is a Tony-winning stage and screen actress best known as the original Baker's Wife in Into the Woods (1988 Tony, Best Actress in a Musical).
Joanna Woodward (actress)
Joanna Woodward is an English musical theatre actress from Glastonbury who trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; known for Clare in The Time Traveller's Wife and Ulla in The Producers, distinct from Joanne Woodward and animator JoWonder.
Joe Mantello
Joe Mantello (born 1962, Rockford, Illinois) is an American Broadway director and three-time Tony winner (Take Me Out, Assassins, Death of a Salesman) who directed Wicked and acted in Angels in America and The Normal Heart.
John Cardoza
John Cardoza (born 1994, Massachusetts) is an American musical theater actor, Boston Conservatory BFA 2016, known as Younger Noah in Broadway's The Notebook, and for Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Karate Kid, and Heathers; distinct from an older film actor of the same name.