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Sam Kinison
Sam Kinison (Samuel Burl Kinison, 1953–1992), American stand-up comedian and former Pentecostal preacher, pioneer of screaming "rage comedy," Grammy-nominated for Louder Than Hell, killed in a 1992 car crash near Needles, California.
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes (born 1965) is a British stage and film director, Oscar winner for American Beauty, former Donmar Warehouse artistic director, director of Skyfall, Spectre, 1917, and the four-film Beatles biopic project.
Sam Morril
Sam Morril (born 1986, Chelsea, Manhattan) is a New York stand-up comedian with seven specials including Same Time Tomorrow (Netflix, 2022) and You've Changed (2024), co-host of the podcast We Might Be Drunk with Mark Normand, and a cameo player in Joker (2019).
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard (1943–2017), American playwright and actor, Pulitzer Prize winner for Buried Child (1979), author of True West and Fool for Love, Oscar-nominated as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff.
Sam Tallent
Sam Tallent is an American stand-up comedian, novelist, and host of the Chubby Behemoth podcast, from Elizabeth, Colorado. Known for Running the Light, Brut, and the specials Waiting for Death to Claim Us and The Toad's Morale.
Sam Tripoli
Sam Tripoli (born 1973) is an American stand-up comedian and podcaster from Cortland, New York, a Comedy Store paid regular, host of Tin Foil Hat since 2016 and Punch Drunk Sports with Ari Shaffir.
Sam Wanamaker
Sam Wanamaker (1919-1993), American actor, director, and producer, founded the Shakespeare Globe Trust in 1970 and campaigned for over two decades to rebuild Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London; the site's indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse opened in 2014 is named for him.
Sam Wills
Sam Wills, aka Tape Face (formerly The Boy With Tape On His Face), is a New Zealand silent prop comic and former circus sideshow performer, a 2016 America's Got Talent finalist with a long Las Vegas residency.
Samantha Pauly
Samantha Pauly (born 1989, Bettendorf, Iowa) is an American actress and singer, original Katherine Howard in Broadway's SIX, Eva Perón in the 2019 West End Evita, and original Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby; Drama Desk and Joseph Jefferson Award winner.
Samay Raina
Samay Raina is an Indian stand-up comedian, YouTuber, and chess streamer who co-won Comicstaan season 2 and created the YouTube talent show India's Got Latent in 2024.
Sammy Davis Sr.
Sammy Davis Sr., African-American vaudeville tap dancer, lead dancer in Will Mastin's Holiday in Dixieland, father and first teacher of Sammy Davis Jr., and member of the Will Mastin Trio.
Sammy Shore
Sammy Shore (1927–2019), American stand-up comedian and actor, co-founder of the Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip and Elvis Presley's 1969 opening act; father of Pauly Shore.
Samoan literature
Samoan literature: oral tradition in Gagana Sāmoa plus written work in Samoan and English by Samoan writers at home and in diaspora; from the 1839 O le Sulu Samoa newspaper to Albert Wendt, Sia Figiel, Tusiata Avia and Selina Tusitala Marsh.
Samuel French (company)
Samuel French is an Anglo-American play publisher and licensing house, founded in New York City in 1846 and acquired by Concord Music in December 2018.
Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard, born 1955, American comedian, actress, singer, and author; breakout as Masha in Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983), NSFC Best Supporting Actress winner, Roseanne's Nancy Bartlett, Pose's Nurse Judy, and pioneer of the modern one-woman cabaret-comedy show.
Sandy (choreographer)
Sandy, also known as Sandy Master, is an Indian dance choreographer and actor born Santhosh Kumar in 1986 in Chennai, known for choreographing songs like "Pathala Pathala".
Sanford Meisner
Sanford Meisner (1905–1997), American actor and Group Theatre founding member, created the Meisner Technique of actor training, centered on the repetition exercise, 'living truthfully under imaginary circumstances,' and over 60 years teaching at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
Sangeet Manapaman
Sangeet Manapaman (संगीत मानापमान) is a landmark Marathi musical drama written by Krishnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar with music by Govindrao Tembe, first staged in Mumbai in 1911 and considered among the most successful musicals in Marathi theater.
Sangeet Natak
Sangeet Natak (संगीत नाटक) is a form of Marathi musical theater carried by dialogue and semi-classical music, whose stage songs, natyasangeet, peaked between 1910 and 1933 with singer-actors like Bal Gandharva.
Sangeet Natak Akademi (संगीत नाटक अकादमी)
Sangeet Natak Akademi (संगीत नाटक अकादमी), India's national academy of music, dance and drama in New Delhi, set up 1952-1953 under the Ministry of Culture; confers the Akademi Ratna fellowship (capped at 40), Akademi Puraskar, and Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar.
Sangeet Saubhadra
Sangeet Saubhadra (संगीत सौभद्र) is a five-act Marathi musical play by Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar, first performed in Pune in 1882 and based on the Mahabharata story of Subhadra's marriage.
Sangeet Sharada
Sangeet Sharada (संगीत शारदा) is an 1899 Marathi musical play by Govind Ballal Deval attacking child marriage, considered the first Marathi play on a social problem.
Sangeet Swayamvar
Sangeet Swayamvar (संगीत स्वयंवर) is a classic Marathi musical play by Krishnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar, with music by Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale, first performed in 1916 by the Gandharva Natak Mandali.
Sanjana Kapoor (संजना कपूर)
Sanjana Kapoor (संजना कपूर), also Sanjna Kapoor, born 1967, daughter of Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal, is an Indian theatre personality who ran Prithvi Theatre 1990–2012 and co-founded Junoon in 2012.
Santino Fontana
Santino Fontana (born 1982, Stockton, California) is an American Tony-winning stage and screen actor; voice of Prince Hans in Frozen and Greg in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Sapphira Cristál
Sapphira Cristál (O'Neill Nichol Haynes), American drag queen, classically trained opera singer, and composer; RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16 runner-up and Miss Congeniality, six-octave range, debut album The Cristál Ball.
Sara Pascoe
Sara Pascoe (born 1981, Dagenham) is an English comedian, writer and actor; Edinburgh shows like Sara Pascoe vs History, books Animal, Sex Power Money and Weirdo, the sitcom Out of Her Mind, and hosting The Great British Sewing Bee.
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt (Henriette-Rosine Bernard, 1844–1923), French tragedienne and theater manager called "la Voix d'or" and "la Divine"; starred at the Comédie-Française and Odéon, toured the world nine times in America, and became the first major stage actress to star in films.
Sarah Cooper
Sarah Cooper, Jamaican-American comedian and writer, ex-Google UX designer, author of 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings, went viral in 2020 lip-syncing Trump on TikTok, leading to the Netflix special Everything's Fine.
Sarah Hester Ross
Sarah Hester Ross, also known for Florida Man Friday and Serving C*nt, is a Las Vegas-based American musical comedian and cabaret artist. A Florida theme-park and dueling-piano performer turned TikTok star, she released the 2024 special Don't Mess with a Redhead and won the 2026 List Festival Award for Best Cabaret Show.