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Keren
Keren (外連, also read geren) is the Japanese term for the spectacular, visually startling staging effects of kabuki theater, including flying actors (chūnori), instant costume changes, and trick stage machinery.
Kerry Ellis
Kerry Jane Ellis, English musical theatre actress and singer, born Suffolk 1979. First British Elphaba in Wicked (West End and Broadway Gershwin Theater), original Meat in We Will Rock You, chart-topping albums with Brian May including Anthems and Golden Days.
Kerry O'Malley
Kerry O'Malley, American actress from Nashua, New Hampshire; sister of Mike O'Malley. Broadway's Baker's Wife in Into the Woods (2002 revival, Drama Desk nominee) and Betty Haynes in White Christmas; TV roles in Brotherhood, Snowpiercer, Shameless.
Kevin Del Aguila
Kevin Del Aguila (born 1969, Bakersfield, California) is an American Broadway performer, playwright, and Emmy-winning children's TV writer; Tony-nominated as Osgood in Some Like It Hot, Drama Desk winner, and book writer of Altar Boyz and Dog Man: The Musical.
Kit Culkin
Kit Culkin (Christopher Cornelius Culkin, born 1944) is an American former Broadway stage actor, in Becket and Hamlet, best known as the father and manager of Macaulay Culkin; estranged from his seven children with Patricia Brentrup.
Konstantin Stanislavski (Константин Сергеевич Алексеев)
Konstantin Stanislavski (Konstantin Sergeyevich Alekseev, 1863–1938), Russian actor, director, and teacher who co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and created the Stanislavski system of psychological-realistic actor training, the source of American Method acting.
Kori King
Kori King: Boston drag performer, comedian, and digital creator, RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 contestant (not an acting coach), famous for the Koriverse Cameo parody characters, CAA signing, and 2026 Black Barbie Tour.
Krishnah Gravidez
Krishnah Marie Gravidez, Filipina beauty queen from Baguio; Miss World Philippines 2024, Top 8 and Miss World Asia at Miss World 2025 in Hyderabad, India; Universal Records artist behind the single Rainbow.
Kristin Linklater
Kristin Linklater (1936–2020), Orkney-born Scottish voice teacher, creator of the Linklater Voice Method and author of Freeing the Natural Voice (1976); taught at NYU, co-founded Shakespeare & Company, and was Columbia professor.
La Voix (drag queen)
La Voix, stage name of Christopher Dennis (born 1980), is a British drag queen, singer and comedian from Stockton-on-Tees; runner-up on RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 6, Britain's Got Talent 2014 semi-finalist, first drag queen on Strictly Come Dancing 2025, later cast as Miss Hannigan in Annie.
Laura Benanti
Laura Benanti (born 1979), also Laura Ilene Benanti, is an American actress and singer: Tony winner for Louise in the 2008 Gypsy revival, five-time Tony nominee, Broadway star, Melania Trump impersonator on Colbert, and creator of the solo show Nobody Cares.
Laura Keene
Laura Keene (Mary Frances Moss, 1826-1873), British-born American actress and one of the first female theatre managers in the United States; ran Laura Keene's Theatre on Broadway and starred in Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was shot.
Laura Osnes
Laura Osnes (born 1985) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter, a two-time Tony nominee for Bonnie & Clyde and Cinderella, who won Broadway's Sandy role via NBC's Grease: You're the One That I Want! and led Hallmark and Great American TV movies.
Laurence Luckinbill
Laurence Luckinbill (Larry Luckinbill), American actor, playwright, and director born in Fort Smith, Arkansas; originated Hank in The Boys in the Band, played Sybok in Star Trek V, and tours one-man shows on LBJ, Darrow, Roosevelt, and Hemingway.
Laurence Rupp
Laurence Rupp is an Austrian theater and film actor, born in Vienna in 1987, known for playing Arminius in Netflix's Barbarians and winning the Austrian Film Prize for Cops.
Lazy Susan (drag queen)
Lazy Susan, drag persona of Robbie Sinclair Ten Eyck (born 1991), Melbourne (Naarm) drag queen and filmmaker; won Drag Race Down Under season 4 in December 2024; later judge on Drag Race Down Under vs The World (2026); distinct from Lazi Susan, DJ Lazy Susan, and Layla Zee Susan.
Le Pétomane
Le Pétomane, stage name of Joseph Pujol (Josep Pujol i Mauri, 1857–1945), French Catalan music-hall flatulist who headlined the Moulin Rouge in the early 1890s, out-earning Sarah Bernhardt, using controlled rectal air intake rather than intestinal gas.
Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg (Israel Strasberg, 1901–1982), American director and acting teacher who created Method Acting from Stanislavski's System: Group Theatre co-founder (1931), Actors Studio artistic director 1951–1982, founder of the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute (1969), known for affective and sense memory training.
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, founded in 1969 by Lee and Anna Strasberg, is an NAST-accredited Method acting school with New York and West Hollywood campuses, conservatory and AOS programs, and alumni including Al Pacino and Lady Gaga.
Legacy Effects
Legacy Effects is an American practical special effects studio in San Fernando, California, founded in 2008 by four supervisors from Stan Winston Studio, known for animatronics and prosthetic makeup.
Leland Hayward
Leland Hayward (1902-1971), born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, was an American talent agent and Broadway, film, and television producer whose agency merged with MCA in 1945 and whose productions included Mister Roberts, South Pacific, Gypsy, and The Sound of Music.
Lena Hall
Lena Hall (Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal, born 1980), American actress and singer; 2014 Tony winner as Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kinky Boots' original Nicola, Snowpiercer's Miss Audrey, and Ali Cooper in Apple TV+'s Your Friends & Neighbors.
Les Kurbas
Les Kurbas (Лесь Курбас), born Oleksander-Zenon Kurbas, was a Ukrainian theater director who founded Berezil and the modern Ukrainian theater, executed in the Stalinist purges in 1937.
Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell (Helen Louise Leonard, 1860 or 1861-1922) was America's leading comic opera and operetta soprano of the 1880s-1890s, star of Tony Pastor, Casino Theater, and Weber and Fields shows, famed for "Come Down Ma Evenin' Star" and Gilded Age celebrity.
Lillie Langtry
Lillie Langtry (Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, 1853–1929), the Jersey Lily, a British professional beauty and actress, mistress of Edward VII, famed for her US tours, Pears Soap endorsements, and the Texas town Langtry named for her.
Limelight
Limelight, also called Drummond or calcium light, is quicklime (calcium oxide) heated by an oxyhydrogen flame to incandescence; the first practical spotlight, used from Covent Garden 1837 until electric arc and incandescent lamps replaced it by the 1920s, origin of the phrase "in the limelight".
Lindsay Mendez
Lindsay Mendez (Lindsay Michelle Mendez), American musical theater actress from Norwalk, California; won the 2018 Tony for Best Featured Actress as Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel's revival, 2024 nominee for Merrily We Roll Along.
Lip sync
Lip sync is the alignment of mouth movement with sound in film, TV, streaming, conferencing and performance, also called sincronización labial. Tolerances span about 30 ms in live broadcast to over 100 ms in streaming; causes, standards, and AI methods differ.
List of acting techniques
List of acting techniques: named systems for actor training and role preparation, mostly derived from Stanislavski's System, including Strasberg's Method, Adler, Meisner, Chekhov, Spolin, Viewpoints, Practical Aesthetics, and voice and classical approaches.
List of drag queens
List of drag queens: notable drag queens (drag queens) such as RuPaul, Lily Savage, Crystal LaBeija, Sasha Velour, Jiggly Caliente, and Pabllo Vittar, with definitions, milestones, and their role in culture and politics.