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Jen Kirkman
Jen Kirkman, American stand-up comedian, TV writer, and podcaster from Needham, Massachusetts; Chelsea Lately panelist, Drunk History narrator, two Netflix specials, two memoirs, and host of the ADHD/AuDHD podcast You Are a LOT.
Jenn Colella
Jenn Colella (born 1974) is an American Broadway actress and singer, Tony-nominated as Captain Beverley Bass in Come From Away, Drama Desk and Grammy winner, Suffs's Carrie Chapman Catt, and adjunct professor at Columbia and Pace.
Jennifer Ward-Lealand
Jennifer Te Atamira Ward-Lealand, New Zealand stage and screen actor, director, and President of Equity New Zealand since 2008; CNZM 2019 and 2020 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year; advocate for actors' pay and te reo Māori.
Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair (Jenny Clare Hargreaves, born 1960) is an English stand-up comedian, novelist, and actress; first woman to win the Edinburgh Perrier Award (1995), known for Grumpy Old Women, Loose Women, and Taskmaster series 15.
Jenny Tian
Jenny Tian is an Australian comedian and Taskmaster Australia season 2 cast member, born in Finland to Chinese parents and raised in Sydney. Her solo shows include Picture This, Chinese Australian, Supreme Mother, Jenny's Travels, and When Life Gives You Oranges.
Jeppe of the Hill
Jeppe of the Hill (Jeppe på Bjerget) is a 1722 comedy by Ludvig Holberg about a drunken peasant tricked into believing he has become a lord.
Jeremy Culhane
Jeremy Culhane (born 1992) is an American comedian, actor, and improviser from Los Angeles, a TCU graduate, Dropout regular, and TikTok creator who joined Saturday Night Live as a featured player in season 51 (2025), known for his viral Tucker Carlson impression.
Jeremy Hardy
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019), English socialist stand-up comedian and Radio 4 regular on The News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue; Perrier Award winner 1988, host of Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, Guardian columnist 1996–2001.
Jeremy Jordan (actor, born 1984)
Jeremy Jordan (born 1984, Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American Broadway actor and singer, Tony-nominated for Newsies and Floyd Collins, who originated Jay Gatsby on Broadway and played Winn Schott on Supergirl; distinct from the 1973-born pop singer of the same name.
Jeremy Pope
Jeremy Pope (born 1992, Orlando, Florida) is an American actor and singer, a Tony, Emmy, Grammy, and Golden Globe nominee known for Choir Boy, Ain't Too Proud, Hollywood, The Inspection, and FX's The Beauty.
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins (1918–1998), born Jerome Rabinowitz, American choreographer and director of West Side Story, Fancy Free, and Fiddler on the Roof; five Tonys, two Oscars, NYCB ballet master.
Jerrod Carmichael
Jerrod Carmichael, American stand-up comedian and filmmaker from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, creator of NBC's The Carmichael Show; Emmy-winning HBO special Rothaniel (2022), where he came out as gay.
Jerry Clower
Jerry Clower (Howard Gerald Clower, 1926-1998), Mississippi country comedian and Grand Ole Opry storyteller, gold-record album Jerry Clower from Yazoo City, Mississippi Talkin', Ledbetter clan tales, fertilizer salesman turned humorist.
Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954, Brooklyn) is an American observational stand-up comedian who co-created NBC's Seinfeld (1989–1998), the first actor paid $1 million per episode, later host of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Jerry Springer: The Opera
Jerry Springer: The Opera, satirical musical by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee based on The Jerry Springer Show; premiered at the National Theatre in 2003, transferred to the Cambridge Theatre, won four Oliviers, and drew record complaints over its 2005 BBC2 broadcast.
Jerry Stiller
Jerry Stiller (Gerald Isaac Stiller, 1927-2020), American comedian and actor; half of the duo Stiller and Meara with wife Anne Meara; played Frank Costanza on Seinfeld and Arthur Spooner on The King of Queens.
Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999), Polish director of the Laboratory Theatre, creator of poor theatre and author of Towards a Poor Theatre (1968), later phases of paratheatre and ritual research.
Jessi Klein
Jessi Klein (born 1975, New York City) is an American comedian, TV writer, and Emmy-winning author; distinct from singer Jess Klein, sociologist Jessie Klein, and journalist Jessica Klein. Known as head writer of Inside Amy Schumer, voice of Jessi Glaser on Big Mouth, and author of You'll Grow Out of It and I'll Show Myself Out.
Jessica Chaffin
Jessica Chaffin (born 1974, Newton, Massachusetts), American actress, comedian, writer, producer; half of Ronna and Beverly with Jamie Denbo; known for The Heat, Spy, Big Mouth, and Hacks Emmy-nominated producing.
Jessica Goldberg
Jessica Goldberg is an American playwright, screenwriter, and TV writer, NYU and Juilliard graduate. Refuge won the 1999 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; she created The Path and showran Away.
Jessie Mueller
Jessie Mueller, full name Jessica Ruth Mueller, is an American actress and singer from Evanston, Illinois, known for originating Carole King in Beautiful and Jenna in Waitress.
Jessie Woo
Jessie Woo, born Jessica Juste in 1990 in Montreal to Haitian parents, is a comedian, BET host, and R&B singer who broke out with the 2017 viral video "Dear Haitian Crush" and her alter ego Cadouskha Jean-Francois.
Jesuit drama
Jesuit drama (German: Jesuitendrama) is Latin-language drama written by Jesuits and staged at their colleges between about 1550 and 1650, blending pedagogy with Counter-Reformation propaganda.
Jethro (comedian)
Jethro, the stage name of Geoffrey J Rowe, was an English stand-up comedian from Cornwall whose storytelling act in a strong Cornish accent made him one of the county's best-known performers.
Jettatore
Jettatore is a three-act comedy by Argentine playwright Gregorio de Laferrère, premiered in Buenos Aires in 1904, satirizing belief in the jettatore, a bringer of bad luck.
Jewels (ballet)
Jewels (Balanchine, 1967): the first full-length abstract, plotless three-act ballet, created for New York City Ballet; acts Emeralds, Rubies, Diamonds set to Fauré, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, inspired by Van Cleef & Arpels.
Jez Butterworth
Jez Butterworth (born 1969), British playwright and screenwriter, author of Mojo, Jerusalem, The Ferryman and The Hills of California; Tony and Olivier winner also known for Spectre and Ford v Ferrari.
Jhumur
Jhumur (ঝুমুর) is a Bengali folk song and dance tradition of the Chhotanagpur plateau, practiced in western West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Odisha, and transmitted orally by communities such as the Kurmi-Mahato.
Ji Junxiang
Ji Junxiang (纪君祥), also written Ji Tianxiang, was an early Yuan dynasty playwright best known for The Orphan of Zhao, the first Chinese drama translated into a European language.
Jidaimono
Jidaimono (時代物, "period pieces") are the historical plays of kabuki and the Japanese puppet theater, set in samurai and court society of eras before the Edo period, in contrast with the contemporary-life sewamono.