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Will Burkart
Will Burkart, Los Angeles-based American stand-up comedian and actor from the SF Bay Area, known for viral crowd-work clips (2M+ followers); 45-city 2023 tour, Netflix Is a Joke 2024, debut special Warm Regards (2025).
Will Sasso
Will Sasso (William Sasso, born 1975, Ladner, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor and comedian, a five-season MADtv cast member (1997-2002), Curly in The Three Stooges (2012), and star of Loudermilk and Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, known for celebrity impressions and the podcasts Dudesy and Ten Minute Podcast.
Will Smith (comedian)
Will Smith (William James Smith, born 1971) is an English stand-up comedian and Emmy-winning writer from Jersey, known for Edinburgh shows, The Thick of It, Veep, and creating Slow Horses, distinct from the American actor.
Willam Belli
Willam Belli is an American drag queen, actor, and author who is known for the role of Cherry Peck in Nip/Tuck. He also competed on RuPaul's Drag Race in 2012.
Willi Ninja
Willi Ninja (William Roscoe Leake, 1961-2006), American dancer, House of Ninja founder, and star of Paris Is Burning who popularized voguing worldwide and inspired Madonna's Vogue.
William Forsythe (choreographer)
William Forsythe, born 1949 in Long Island, New York, is an American choreographer who led Ballet Frankfurt from 1984 and created works in nearly every major ballet company's repertoire.
Willy Loman
Willy Loman is the tragic protagonist of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman, a sixty-year-old salesman whose confused pursuit of success and being liked ends in suicide for a $20,000 insurance payment.
Willy Russell
Willy Russell (born 1947) is the English Liverpool playwright of Educating Rita (1980), Blood Brothers (1983), and Shirley Valentine (1986), each an Olivier Award winner; two became films, and he was Oscar-nominated for the Educating Rita screenplay.
Willy's Chocolate Experience
Willy's Chocolate Experience, also called the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience, was a failed unlicensed Wonka-themed children's event held 24 February 2024 in Glasgow; its AI-generated ads promised an immersive £35 experience, police were called after it was canceled within hours, and 850 refunds were pledged.
Wilson Jermaine Heredia
Wilson Jermaine Heredia (born 1971, Brooklyn) is an American actor who originated Angel Dumott Schunard in Rent on Off-Broadway, Broadway, West End, and film, winning the 1996 Tony and Drama Desk Awards and a 1999 Olivier Award.
Winnie Holzman
Winnie Holzman (born 1954) is an American TV, stage, and screen writer, Princeton '76 and NYU Musical Theatre MFA, creator of My So-Called Life and book writer of the musical Wicked, later co-writer of its films.
Winston Ntshona
Winston Zola Ntshona (1941–2018), South African actor and playwright of the Serpent Players, co-devised Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island with Athol Fugard and John Kani, shared the 1975 Tony Award for Best Actor, was detained under apartheid, and received the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver.
Winter Garden Theatre
Winter Garden Theatre: Shubert-owned Broadway house at 1634 Broadway, New York, opened 1911 in a converted American Horse Exchange; home of Cats, West Side Story, Mamma Mia!; distinct from the 295-seat Garden Theatre on Plant in Winter Garden, Florida.
Wit
Wit, styled W;t on the playbill, is a one-act play by Margaret Edson about a poetry professor with ovarian cancer that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Without a Dowry
Without a Dowry (Бесприданница) is an 1878 drama in four acts by Alexander Ostrovsky, about Larisa Ogudalova, a dowerless young woman courted and finally shot in a Volga city.
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, in Vienna, Virginia, is the only U.S. national park dedicated to the performing arts, established 1966 from Catherine Filene Shouse's gift, home to the Filene Center.
Wolves and Sheep
Wolves and Sheep (Волки и овцы) is an 1875 comedy in five acts by the Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky, set in a provincial town where schemers hunt a naive young widow's money.
Women playwrights in the anglophone theatre
Women playwrights in the anglophone theater are the women who have written plays for English-language stages from the Restoration to the present, from Aphra Behn onward.
Women theatre directors
Women theater directors are women who stage theatrical productions; Broadway's share of women directors peaked at thirteen percent in 1950, then fell to zero by 1955.
Woordfees
The Woordfees, formally the Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees, is an annual, predominantly Afrikaans arts festival held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, drawing around 50,000 festivalgoers a year.
Workers' Theatre Movement
The Workers' Theatre Movement was a British agitprop theater movement of the interwar years, organized from 1925 and dissolved in 1936, whose legacy was London's Unity Theatre.
World of Street Woman Fighter (월드 오브 스트릿 우먼 파이터)
World of Street Woman Fighter (WSWF, 월드 오브 스트릿 우먼 파이터), also called SWF3, was Mnet's 2025 global dance survival, the third Street Woman Fighter season, won by Japan's Osaka Ojo Gang with record viral Mega Crew views but the franchise's lowest TV ratings.
Woza Albert!
Woza Albert! is a two-person South African anti-apartheid protest play from 1981, created by Percy Mtwa and Mbongeni Ngema with director Barney Simon at Johannesburg's Market Theatre.
Xiao Sun Tu
Xiao Sun Tu (小孙屠, "Little Butcher Sun") is a Song-Yuan Chinese nanxi play attributed to the Guhang shuhui of Hangzhou, one of only three plays surviving in the Yongle Dadian.
Xunami Muse
Xunami Muse is the drag persona of Michael Alexander White, a Panamanian drag performer who placed ninth on season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2024.
Yaddo
Yaddo is a nonprofit artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York, founded by Spencer and Katrina Trask (corporation 1900, first guests 1926) on a 400-acre estate. It offers two-week to two-month residencies in five disciplines, judged on work quality, with alumni holding 90 Pulitzer Prizes.
Yakshagana (ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ)
Yakshagana (ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ) is Karnataka's coastal all-night dance-drama, blending dance, music, improvised dialogue, and elaborate costume; styles include Badagu Thittu and Thenku Thittu, with related forms Talamaddale and Gombeyata.
Yakshaganam
Yakshaganam (యక్షగానము) is a Telugu musical dance-drama genre combining story, verse, music, dance, and acting, first recorded in 1430 and performed from dusk to dawn.
Yale School of Drama
Yale School of Drama, now David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, is Yale University's graduate theater conservatory, founded 1924, a separate professional school since 1955, tuition-free since a 2021 $150 million Geffen gift, and home to Yale Repertory Theatre.
Yamuna Sangarasivam
Yamuna Sangarasivam is a Sri Lankan Tamil-American Odissi dancer and anthropologist who danced a 20-second duet with Michael Jackson in the 1991 Black or White video, chosen from over 3,000 dancers; she is now a professor at Nazareth University, Rochester.