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Elis James
Elis James (born 1980, Haverfordwest) is a Welsh comedian, actor, and broadcaster from Carmarthen who performs stand-up in Welsh and English, starred in Crims and Josh, and co-hosts the Elis James and John Robins podcast on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Elite Syncopations (ballet)
Elite Syncopations is Kenneth MacMillan's 1974 one-act ragtime ballet for The Royal Ballet, set to Scott Joplin and others with an onstage band, Spurling costumes, premiered 7 October 1974 at Covent Garden.
Elizabeth Kemp
Elizabeth Kemp (1951–2017) was an American actress and Actors Studio acting coach who taught Bradley Cooper, Hugh Jackman, Lady Gaga, and Harvey Keitel, chaired the Actors Studio Drama School MFA at Pace University, and appeared in He Knows You're Alone.
Elizabeth LeCompte
Elizabeth LeCompte (born 1944) is the American experimental theater director who co-founded The Wooster Group in 1980 with Spalding Gray and directs it from The Performing Garage, Soho; MacArthur, Gish Prize, and 2025 Venice Golden Lion winner.
Elizaveta Bam
Elizaveta Bam (Елизавета Бам) is a 1927 one-act play by Daniil Kharms about a woman arrested for a murder she did not commit, an early forerunner of absurdist theater.
Ellen Ternan
Ellen Lawless Ternan (Nelly, 1839-1914), English actress and Charles Dickens's secret companion from 1857 until his death in 1870; later married George Wharton Robinson; her story was reconstructed by Claire Tomalin's The Invisible Woman.
Ellie Taylor
Ellie Taylor (born 1983), also Eleanor Jane Taylor, is an English comedian, actor, writer and presenter known for Ted Lasso's Sassy, The Mash Report, Cravings on Netflix, Strictly 2022, and hosting Bake Off: The Professionals.
Elvera Sanchez
Elvera 'Baby' Sanchez Davis (1905-2000), American tap dancer and mother of Sammy Davis Jr.; Harlem Lafayette and Apollo chorus dancer, Atlantic City barmaid, adviser for National Tap Dance Day.
Elvira Madigan
Elvira Madigan (Hedvig Antoinette Isabella Eleonore Jensen, 1867–1889), Danish-Nordic circus slackwire dancer who eloped with Swedish lieutenant Sixten Sparre; both died on Tåsinge in July 1889, later immortalized in Bo Widerberg's 1967 film and Mozart's 'Elvira Madigan' concerto.
Elvis has left the building
"Elvis has left the building" is an English catchphrase from Elvis Presley concerts, first printed in the Detroit Times in 1956 and spoken by Horace Logan at the Louisiana Hayride, now meaning an event is definitively over.
Emily Davis
Emily Davis is an American actress best known for playing Reality Winner in Is This a Room, winning a 2020 Obie Award for the role.
Emma Doran
Emma Doran, Irish stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Dublin; memoir Mad, Isn't It? (2024), podcast Keep It Tight with Deirdre O'Kane, tours Dilemma and Emmaculate.
Emma Holland
Emma Holland (born 1994) is an Australian stand-up comedian, writer, collage artist and photographer, known for visually elaborate shows like Don't Touch My Trinkets and The Dog Dies at the Start, and for Taskmaster Australia and panel TV appearances.
Emma Portner
Emma Portner (born 1994, Ottawa) is a Canadian dancer and choreographer whose 2012 viral duet "Dancing in the Dark" led to West End's Bat Out of Hell, Justin Bieber's tour, and ballets including islands (2020).
Emma Sidi
Emma Sidi is an English actor, writer, and comedian known for character comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe and TV roles in Starstruck, Ghosts, W1A, and Stath Lets Flats.
Emma, Lady Hamilton
Emma, Lady Hamilton (Amy Lyon, Emma Hart, 1765–1815): English model, performer and diplomat, muse of Romney, creator of the classical 'Attitudes', wife of ambassador Sir William Hamilton, mistress of Nelson, died in debt in Calais.
Emmanuel Sonubi
Emmanuel Sonubi (born 1980, London) is a British Nigerian stand-up comedian and actor; former IT worker, nightclub doorman, and West End Daddy Cool star; double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee (2022, 2023) and Live at the Apollo host.
Emmett Kelly
Emmett Kelly (Emmett Leo Kelly Sr., 1898-1979), American circus clown who created the sad hobo character Weary Willie, starred with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey 1942-1956, helped during the 1944 Hartford circus fire, and appeared in The Greatest Show on Earth.
Emo Philips
Emo Philips (Philip Soltanec, born 1956) is an American stand-up comedian famous since 1976 for childlike delivery and precisely constructed one-liners; called the best joke writer in America by Jay Leno.
Endgame (play)
Endgame (Fin de partie) is Samuel Beckett's 1957 one-act play for four characters: blind Hamm, servant Clov, and Hamm's parents Nagg and Nell in dustbins. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, directed by Roger Blin; Beckett's own English translation appeared in 1958.
English Renaissance theatre
English Renaissance theatre, also called Elizabethan theatre, was the theatre of England from 1558 to 1642, spanning Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline phases, featuring the first professional actors, purpose-built playhouses such as the Theatre and the Globe, and playwrights including Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson.
Enrica Soma
Enrica Georgia Soma was an American ballet dancer and model who rose to principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and married film director John Huston in 1950.
Enrique Buenaventura
Enrique Buenaventura (1925–2003) was a Colombian playwright, actor, director, and theater theorist who founded the Teatro Experimental de Cali and systematized the Collective Creation Method, in which actors share authorship.
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Entertaining Mr Sloane: Joe Orton's 1964 black comedy debut, in which lodger Sloane is seduced by siblings Kath and Ed and kills their father; West End hit, Broadway 1965, revived at the Young Vic in 2025.
Epa masks
Epa masks are large carved wooden helmet masks worn by Yoruba masqueraders in northeastern Yorubaland, Nigeria, during the Epa festival, honoring heroes, ancestors, and town-founding social roles.
Epic theatre
Epic theatre (Episches Theater), or Brechtian/dialectical theatre, is Bertolt Brecht's anti-illusionary, episodic political theatre using the Verfremdungseffekt, building on Erwin Piscator's 1920s stage innovations.
Equus (play)
Equus is Peter Shaffer's 1973 psychological drama, premiered at the National Theatre's Old Vic, in which psychiatrist Martin Dysart investigates why 17-year-old Alan Strang blinded six horses, exploring worship, sexuality, and normality; it won the 1975 Tony for Best Play and was filmed in 1977.
Erasmus Montanus
Erasmus Montanus, full title Erasmus Montanus eller Rasmus Berg, is a comedy in five acts by Ludvig Holberg, satirizing a student's empty Latin disputations and rural ignorance; it ranks among his best-known plays.
Eric André
Eric Samuel André (born 1983, Boca Raton, Florida) is an American comedian, actor, and Berklee-trained bassist, creator and host of Adult Swim's The Eric André Show since 2012, star of Bad Trip and Man Seeking Woman, Blarf musician, and 2024 Creative Arts Emmy winner.
Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian, born in 1953, is an American actor, playwright, and monologuist known for his one-man shows and for writing and starring in Talk Radio.