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Tom Basden
Tom Basden (born 1980) is an English comedy writer, actor, and musician, Edinburgh Best Newcomer 2007, Cowards member, co-creator of Plebs, creator of Here We Go, and co-writer and star of The Ballad of Wallis Island.
Tom Murphy
Tom Murphy (1935–2018) was an Irish playwright from Tuam, County Galway, whose more than 20 plays, from A Whistle in the Dark (1961) onward, became mainstays of Irish theater.
Tom Papa
Tom Papa (Thomas Papa Jr.) is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for clean, observational comedy about family life and for touring as Jerry Seinfeld's opening act.
Tom Segura
Tom Segura: American stand-up comedian and podcaster; six Netflix specials including Teacher and Sledgehammer; co-founder of YMH Studios with Your Mom's House and 2 Bears, 1 Cave; 2025 Emmy-nominated for Bad Thoughts.
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard (Tomáš Straussler, 1937–2025), Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter; author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, and Leopoldstadt; five Tony Awards and an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love.
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 Brennan
Tommy Brennan (Thomas Brennan Schneeman), St. Paul-born, New York-based stand-up comedian, Comedy Cellar regular, Just For Laughs New Face 2023, Tonight Show debut June 2025, SNL Season 51 featured player.
Tommy Chong
Tommy Chong, born 1938 in Edmonton, Alberta, is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, and musician; half of Cheech and Chong with Cheech Marin, Grammy winner for Los Cochinos, director of Up in Smoke, and imprisoned nine months in 2003 for selling bongs.
Tommy Cooper
Tommy Cooper (Thomas Frederick Cooper, 19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984) was a Welsh comedian and magician, the fez-wearing performer of choreographed failing magic tricks; star of It's Magic (1952) and ITV series, died on live TV.
Tommy Tiernan
Tommy Tiernan, Irish stand-up comedian, actor, and RTÉ chat show host from Navan, County Meath; 1998 Perrier Award winner, Da Gerry in Derry Girls, host of the mystery-guest Tommy Tiernan Show.
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.
Tomson Highway
Tomson Highway, born 1951 in Brochet, Manitoba, is a Cree Canadian playwright, novelist, and pianist best known for The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.
Tone Bell
Tone Bell, stage name of Michael Anthony Bell II (born 1983, Decatur, Georgia), is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for NBC's Whitney, Truth Be Told, Bad Judge, CBS's Fam, Netflix's Survival of the Thickest, and his Showtime special Can't Cancel This.
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical): annual Broadway theater award from the American Theatre Wing and Broadway League; lead musical actor category since 1948, won recently by Ghee, Groff, Criss, and Henry.
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, one of 26 competitive Tony Award categories, is presented annually to a leading actress in a Broadway musical since 1947.
Tony Award for Best Choreography
The Tony Award for Best Choreography is an annual Tony Award honoring choreography in Broadway productions, awarded since 1947; Bob Fosse holds the record with eight wins, and shared wins are permitted.
Tony Award for Best Musical
The Tony Award for Best Musical is the annual award given to the producers of the best new Broadway musical of the eligibility season. Added by 1949, restricted to the 41 eligible Broadway theatres, with classics routed to Best Revival; the 2026 winner was Schmigadoon!.
Tony Awards
Tony Awards (Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre): annual Broadway theatre honors established 1947 by the American Theatre Wing, named for Antoinette Perry; first ceremony April 6, 1947 at the Waldorf Astoria; presented by Tony Award Productions (Broadway League and Wing), voted by 857 designated theatre-community voters for 2026.
Tony Clifton
Tony Clifton: fictional Vegas lounge singer created by Andy Kaufman with Bob Zmuda, played by both; famous for the Taxi firing, Dinah! egg incident, and Man on the Moon.
Tony Hinchcliffe
Tony Hinchcliffe, American roast comedian from Youngstown, Ohio; host of the live podcast Kill Tony since 2013; Netflix One Shot (2016); 2024 Trump rally Puerto Rico controversy.
Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner (born 1956) is the American playwright of Angels in America, winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize and two Best Play Tonys, and screenwriter of Spielberg's Munich, Lincoln, West Side Story, and The Fabelmans.
Tony McNamara (writer)
Tony McNamara (born 1966, some sources 1967) is an Australian screenwriter, playwright, and producer from Kilmore, Victoria, known for Oscar-nominated The Favourite and Poor Things screenplays and for creating Hulu's The Great.
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 Rock
Tony Rock (Anthony Rock, born 1974, Brooklyn) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, younger brother of Chris Rock, known for All of Us, Everybody Hates Chris, and hosting All Def Comedy, Apollo Live, and Black Card Revoked.
Tony Slattery
Tony Slattery (1959–2025), British actor and comedian, star of Whose Line Is It Anyway?; Cambridge Footlights Perrier winner, films The Crying Game and Peter's Friends, Olivier nominee, died of a heart attack aged 65.
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.
Too Clever by Half
Too Clever by Half (Russian: «На всякого мудреца довольно простоты», also translated as Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man) is an 1868 comedy by Alexander Ostrovsky.
Top Girls
Top Girls is Caryl Churchill's 1982 all-female feminist play, premiering at the Royal Court under Max Stafford-Clark. It follows Marlene's Thatcher-era career rise, a dinner party with historical women, and her abandoned daughter Angie, winning the 1983 Obie Award.
Topo Gigio
Topo Gigio, Italian puppet mouse created by Maria Perego, debuted on RAI in 1959 with Domenico Modugno's voice and Peppino Mazzullo as its historic voice; famous on The Ed Sullivan Show and revived at Sanremo 2025.
Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy is Harvey Fierstein's three-part play about Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish gay drag performer in New York. Composed of The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First!, it ran 1,230 Broadway performances from 1982 and won 1983 Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor.