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Andy Dick
Andy Dick (Andrew Roane Dick), American actor and comedian born 1965 in Charleston, South Carolina, known for The Ben Stiller Show, NewsRadio, and MTV's The Andy Dick Show; later marked by addiction, a 2022 sex-offense conviction, and a near-fatal 2025 overdose.
Andy Hamilton
Andy Hamilton (Andrew Neil Hamilton, born 1954) is a British comedy writer, comedian, and director, co-creator with Guy Jenkin of Drop the Dead Donkey and Outnumbered, writer-star of Radio 4's Old Harry's Game as Satan, and voice of Dr Elephant in Peppa Pig; distinct from the Australian comedian Andrew Hamilton and the Jamaican saxophonist Andy Hamilton.
Andy Huggins
Andy Huggins (born 1950) is a Houston-based American stand-up comedian, a Texas Outlaw Comics member with Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, known for one-liners, America's Got Talent 2018, and the 2023 special Early Bird Special.
Andy Karl
Andy Karl (Andrew Karl, born 1974, Baltimore) is an American stage and screen actor, three-time Tony nominee, and Olivier winner as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day, also known for Rocky on Broadway and SVU's Sgt. Mike Dodds.
Andy Kaufman
Andy Kaufman (Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman, 1949–1984), American performance artist and actor, Latka on Taxi, Mighty Mouse bit on SNL's first episode, Tony Clifton alter ego, Jerry Lawler wrestling feud, died of lung cancer at 35 amid death-hoax legend.
Andy Lee (comedian)
Andy Lee (Andrew Thomas Lee, born 1981) is an Australian comedian, TV presenter, radio host and children's writer, one half of the duo Hamish & Andy with Hamish Blake, hosts The Hundred, and wrote the Do Not Open This Book series; distinct from the Irish OnlyFans creator of the same name.
Andy Zaltzman
Andy Zaltzman, British political satirist and cricket statistician, hosts The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, works on Test Match Special, and won Taskmaster series 18 in 2024.
Angeliki Papoulia (Αγγελική Παπουλία)
Angeliki Papoulia (Αγγελική Παπούλια), Greek actress and theatre director born in Athens in 1975. Known for Lanthimos's Dogtooth, Alps, The Lobster; Heart of Sarajevo 2009; blitz theatre group co-founder.
Angelo Beolco
Angelo Beolco, better known by his stage name Ruzante (c. 1496–1542), was a Paduan playwright and actor who wrote and performed raw, realistic peasant comedies largely in the Paduan dialect, notably the Betìa and La Vaccaria.
Angels in America
Angels in America, a two-part play by Tony Kushner, is set in mid-1980s New York during the AIDS crisis, following gay men and the historical figure Roy Cohn.
Anglophone playwrights: a cross-tradition survey
Anglophone playwrights are dramatists who write for the stage in English across national traditions. Scholarship frames them as a Commonwealth field since 1960 and, more recently, as a global-postcolonial one.
Animatronics
Animatronics is a branch of engineering that builds electromechanical figures imitating living creatures; developed by Disney as Audio-Animatronics in the early 1960s, it is used in theme parks, film, and research.
Anisa Nandaula
Anisa Nandaula, Ugandan-born Australian stand-up comedian, poet, and author based in Brisbane; 2016 Queensland Poetry Slam champion, TikTok comedy star, Taskmaster Australia and Thank God You're Here contestant, touring You Can't Say That and No Small Talk.
Anjana Vasan (அஞ்சனா வாசன்)
Anjana Vasan (அஞ்சனா வாசன்), born 1987 in Chennai and raised in Singapore, is a Tamil-British stage and screen actress and singer-songwriter, known for Amina in We Are Lady Parts, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (Olivier Award), and Black Mirror's Demon 79; distinct from the VJ Anjana Rangan and Vasan Bala.
Anjelah Johnson
Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, also known as Anjelah Johnson, is an American stand-up comedian and actress from San Jose, California, famous for the viral Nail Salon bit and the MADtv character Bon Qui Qui, with seven specials including Ugly Baby.
Ankiya Naat
Ankiya Naat (অংকীয়া নাট) is a one-act devotional play form created by Assamese saint Srimanta Sankaradeva in the 15th century, marking the beginning of written Assamese drama.
Ann Reinking
Ann Reinking (1949–2020), American dancer, actress, and choreographer; Bob Fosse's muse and partner; won the 1997 Tony for Best Choreography for the Chicago revival and co-directed Fosse.
Anna Ouyang Moench
Anna Ouyang Moench is an American playwright and screenwriter, author of Man of God and Birds of North America, writer on Severance, EP of Beef season 2, and showrunner of Mr. & Mrs. Smith season 2.
Anna Pavlova (Анна Павловна Павлова)
Anna Pavlova (Анна Павловна Павлова, 1881–1931), Russian prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre, star of Diaghilev's Russian Seasons, famed for The Dying Swan, who toured the world with her own company and died in The Hague.
Annaleigh Ashford
Annaleigh Ashford (born 1985, Denver) is an American stage and screen actress; Tony winner for You Can't Take It with You, Emmy nominee for Welcome to Chippendales, and star of Happy Face.
Annie Jones (bearded woman)
Annie Jones (1865–1902), the "Esau Lady" or bearded lady, was an American sideshow performer exhibited by P. T. Barnum from nine months of age, who campaigned against the word "freak" and died of tuberculosis in 1902.
Anthony Jeselnik
Anthony Jeselnik (born 1978, Pittsburgh) is an American stand-up comedian of dark, deadpan one-liner comedy, known for word economy and misdirection, three Netflix specials including Bones and All, and The Jeselnik Offensive.
Anti-humor
Anti-humor, or anti-comedy, is humor built on the deliberate absence of an expected punchline; it works by keeping a joke's setup while defeating its payoff, related to cringe comedy and Dada's anti-art gestures.
Antigone (Sophocles play)
Antigone (Ἀντιγόνη), Sophocles' tragedy staged around 441 BCE, dramatizes Antigone's defiance of Creon's edict forbidding her brother Polyneices' burial, opposing divine unwritten law to state law, ending in her suicide and Creon's ruin.
Anton Chekhov (Антон Павлович Чехов)
Anton Chekhov (Антон Павлович Чехов), Russian writer and physician (1860–1904), master of the modern short story and author of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard; died in Badenweiler of tuberculosis.
Anton Du Beke
Anton Du Beke (born Anton Beke, 1966), also Anthony Paul Beke, is a British ballroom dancer famous for 18 series as a Strictly Come Dancing professional and, since 2021, a judge.
Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), French writer, actor, and theorist of the Theatre of Cruelty in Le Théâtre et son Double (1938); surrealist, film actor, psychiatric patient at Rodez, and major influence on Brook, Grotowski, and the Living Theatre.
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra, also known as The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, is a Shakespearean tragedy written around 1607 about Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.
Antony Sher
Antony Sher (1949–2021), South African-born British actor, knighted RSC Honorary Associate Artist; Richard III on crutches (1984), Olivier and Tony honours, actor-writer-painter, husband of Gregory Doran.
Antwayn Hopper
Antwayn Hopper, American stage and screen actor from Topeka, Kansas; originated Thought 6 in A Strange Loop (Obie 2020), played Macavity in Cats: The Jellicle Ball, and Rafael Wexford in Will Trent.