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Hannah Cruz
Hannah Cruz (born 1992, Newtown, Connecticut) is an American Broadway actress and singer, a 2026 Tony nominee as Svetlana in Chess, Clarence Derwent Award winner for Suffs and The Connector, and Eliza on the Hamilton tour.
Hannah Einbinder
Hannah Marie Einbinder (born 1995), American stand-up comedian and actress, daughter of Laraine Newman; plays Ava Daniels on Hacks, Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, debut special Everything Must Go (2024, Max).
Hannah Gadsby
Hannah Gadsby, Tasmanian-born Australian comedian (Nanette, Douglas), whose 2018 Netflix special Nanette announced their retirement from comedy and critiqued self-deprecating humor; ANU art history graduate, Raw Comedy 2006 winner, Peabody recipient, memoirist of Ten Steps to Nanette.
Hannah Lowther
Hannah Lowther is a British musical theatre performer and TikTok creator, the first actress to play all three Heathers in Heathers: The Musical, a West End alternate in SIX, host of the podcast How Very Hannah, and Margot and alternate Elle Woods in the 2026 Legally Blonde UK and Ireland tour.
Hannah Solow
Hannah Solow, NYC actor, singer, and writer; NYU Tisch BFA; understudy in Oh, Mary! on Broadway and formerly to Mike Birbiglia in The New One; Gertie Cummings in the Oklahoma! tour; former UCB performer.
Hannibal Buress
Hannibal Buress (born 1983, Chicago) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his laid-back delivery, SNL and 30 Rock writing, The Eric André Show and Broad City, and the viral 2014 Cosby routine; he raps as Eshu Tune.
Hannya (般若)
Hannya (般若) is the horned female-demon mask of Japanese Noh theater, worn in Aoi no Ue, Dōjōji, Kurozuka, and Momijigari; its name may come from the carver Hannya-bō or Buddhist wisdom (prajna), and it reads as rage and sorrow at once.
Hanumannataka
Hanumannataka (Hanumannāṭakam), also called the Mahanataka, is a Sanskrit drama in fourteen acts retelling the Ramayana, traditionally attributed to Hanuman and redacted by Damodara Mishra.
Happening
Happening: a form of performance art coined by Allan Kaprow in 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (Reuben Gallery, New York, 1959); scripted, improvisational artist-staged events with audience participation, forerunners of performance art.
Hard Souls
Hard Souls (Suflete tari) is a 1922 modern drama in three acts by the Romanian writer Camil Petrescu, a landmark of modernism whose conflict unfolds inside the characters' consciousness.
Hari Kondabolu
Hari Kondabolu (born 1982) is a Brooklyn-based Indian American stand-up comedian, writer, and podcaster known for political comedy and for the 2017 truTV documentary The Problem with Apu, which critiqued The Simpsons' Apu stereotype and preceded the character's long absence and 2026 return.
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance, or New Negro Movement, was an African American cultural flowering in literature, art, music, and thought centered in Harlem, New York, from roughly World War I through the mid-1930s, driven by the Great Migration and ending with the Great Depression.
Harlequin
Harlequin (Arlecchino) is the best-known stock character of commedia dell'arte: a poor, acrobatic Bergamo servant in a diamond-patterned costume and black half mask, later the magical hero of English pantomime's harlequinade.
Harold Nicholas
Harold Lloyd Nicholas (1921–2000), American tap dancer, younger half of the Nicholas Brothers with Fayard; Cotton Club and Hollywood star famed for the Stormy Weather "Jumpin' Jive" and acrobatic "classical tap."
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (1930–2008), English playwright, screenwriter and Nobel laureate 2005; creator of 'Pinteresque' menace in The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Betrayal; also screenwriter for The Servant and The Go-Between.
Harold Prince
Harold "Hal" Smith Prince (1928–2019), American Broadway producer and director; record 21 Tony Awards; pioneer of the concept musical with Sondheim; director of Cabaret, Evita, Sweeney Todd, and The Phantom of the Opera; distinct from other Harolds Prince.
Harriet Dyer (comedian)
Harriet Louise Dyer, British Cornish stand-up comedian and mental health advocate with bipolar disorder; Sean Lock Comedy Award 2024 winner, Edinburgh Fringe regular, Live at the Apollo 2025; distinct from the Australian actress of the same name.
Harris Wittels
Harris Lee Wittels (April 20, 1984 – February 19, 2015), American comedy writer, producer, and stand-up; Parks and Recreation writer and executive producer, animal-control character Harris; coined "humblebrag"; Comedy Bang! Bang! Foam Corner and Analyze Phish podcasts.
Harry Hill
Harry Hill is the stage name of Matthew Hall, an English comedian and former doctor who hosted TV Burp from 2001 to 2012 and won the 1992 Perrier Award.
Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini (Erik Weisz, 1874-1926), Hungarian-American magician and escape artist born in Budapest, famed for handcuff, Milk Can, and Water Torture Cell escapes, and for exposing spiritualist mediums including Margery Crandon.
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein (born 1954, Brooklyn) is an American actor and playwright, four-time Tony winner for Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage aux Folles, and Hairspray, and a 2025 Special Tony Lifetime Achievement recipient.
Hát bội
Hát bội (tuồng, hát bộ), Vietnamese classical opera: stylized sung-danced theater on loyalty and history, dating to the Trần dynasty, with Đào Duy Từ and Đào Tấn as patriarchs; a National Intangible Cultural Heritage since 2014, now sustained by small troupes and youth outreach.
Hausa drama
Hausa drama, or wasan kwaikwayo ("game of imitation"), is the dramatic tradition of Hausa speakers in northern Nigeria, spanning oral forms, plays, and radio, TV, and video drama.
Hayavadana
Hayavadana is a two-act 1971 Kannada play by Indian playwright Girish Karnad, translated into English in 1975, that uses a story of transposed heads to explore identity.
HB Studio
HB Studio, also known as the Herbert Berghof Studio, is a nonprofit acting school in New York City founded in 1945 by the Viennese actor Herbert Berghof.
Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House is a play by George Bernard Shaw, written between 1913 and 1916 and published in 1919, set in a ship-shaped English country house before World War I.
Heather McDonald
Heather McDonald, born 1970, is an American comedian and writer known for Chelsea Lately and for hosting the pop culture podcast Juicy Scoop, launched 2015, with over 1,200 episodes and stand-up specials on Showtime, Netflix, and Amazon Prime.
Heather McMahan
Heather McMahan (born 1987, Atlanta) is an American stand-up comedian, host of the Dear Media podcast Absolutely Not, and actress from Love Hard; her specials Son I Never Had (Netflix) and Breadwinner (Hulu) followed a pandemic Instagram breakout.
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is a four-act psychological drama by Henrik Ibsen, published in 1890, first staged in Munich on 31 January 1891, whose title character is Hedda Tesman.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 1998 Off-Broadway rock musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask about an East German singer. Known for its 2001 film, the 2014 four-Tony Broadway revival, and ongoing international productions.