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Hammerstein, James
James Hammerstein (1931-1999) director and producer, co-produced the currently long-running international Off-Broadway musical, I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE, and the recent Off-Broadway hit, OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS. Hammerstein ...
Hammerstein, William
William Hammerstein (1918-2001) was born in New York City, first in the fourth generation of a family prominent in the American theatre for over one hundred years. He began his professional career as stage manager at the Saint Louis Municipal Opera, ...
Hammerstein II, Oscar
Oscar Hammerstein II was born on July 12, 1895 in New York City. His father, William, was a theatre manager and for many years director of Hammerstein's Victoria, the most popular vaudeville theatre of its day. His uncle, Arthur Hammerstein, was a ...
Hampton, Christopher
Christopher Hampton's plays, musicals and translations have garnered four Tony Awards, Two Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards and the New York Theatre Critics Circle Award while prizes for his film and television work include An Academy Award, ...
Harnick, Sheldon
Born April 30, 1924 and raised in Chicago, Sheldon Harnick began studying the violin while in grammar school. After serving in the U.S. Army for three years, he enrolled in the Northwestern University School of Music, and earned a Bachelor of Music ...
Hart, Charles
Charles Hart was born in London and educated in Maidenhead and Cambridge. He has written words for musicals, (THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and ASPECTS OF LOVE), opera (THE VAMPYR, BBC 2) and miscellaneous songs, as well as both words and ...
Hart, Lorenz
Lorenz Hart was born in New York City on May 2, 1895, the oldest of two sons of Frieda and Max Hart. Hart graduated from Columbia Grammar School, and attended the Columbia School of Journalism. In the late 'teens a mutual friend introduced ...
Hart, Moss
(1904-1961) Moss Hart began his career as a playwright, director and producer in 1930 when, with George S. Kaufman, he wrote ONCE IN A LIFETIME. Subsequent Kaufman and Hart successes include MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU and THE MAN ...
Hauptman, William
William Hauptman was born in Texas and attended the University of Texas and the Yale School of Drama. His plays include HEAT, DOMINO COURTS (Obie Award) and GILLETTE (LA Drama-Logue Award). For BIG RIVER (with a score by Roger Miller), he won a 1985 Tony ...
Hendry, Tom
Tom Hendry is a Canadian whose collaborations with Stanley Silverman began at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival, where for some time Mr. Hendry was Literary Manager. He is co-founder of the influential Manitoba Theatre Center in Winnipeg, of Canadian ...
Hough, Paul
Paul Hough has collaborated as a stage director on the three LaZebnick and Kingsley Day BYRNE, BABY, BYRNE Chicago events, on the workshop for The Chicago Theatre Project and the initial commercial run of their DEAR AMANDA and on the ...
Howe, William
Bill Howe is a native of Dallas. He moved to California in its golden days to graduate from LA High School, and UCLA in time to sail the seven seas during the Second World War. After several years of writing film reviews and special material in ...
Hudes, Quiara Alegía
QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama two times: in 2007 for her play Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue and in 2009 for In the Heights, for which she was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book. Her play 26 Miles ...
Hughes, Langston
(James Mercer) Langston Hughes (1902-67) was born in Joplin, Missouri, and educated at Lincoln University (Pennsylvania). He worked as a seaman, busboy and teacher in several American cities and abroad. He studied in the Soviet Union and, during the ...
Hwang, David Henry
David Henry Hwang was awarded the 1988 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and John Gassner Awards for his Broadway debut, M. BUTTERFLY, which also was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. For his play GOLDEN CHILD, he received a 1998 Tony Nomination ...
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Iredale, Jane
Jane Iredale was nominated for a Tony Award for the book to the Broadway musical WIND IN THE WILLOWS. She was the co-producer and script editor of the Peabody-Award winning Mark Twain series on PBS, which included Life on the Mississippi, The Innocents ...
Irving, Washington
Washington Irving (1783-1859) was born on April 30, 1783, in New York City. He began to contribute satirical essays and sketches to New York newspapers as early as 1802. A group of these pieces, written from 1802 to 1803, was collected under the title ...
Ives, David
David Ives first came to wide notice in the theatre with his one-act plays, of which he has written over three dozen both for theatre and the radio. The greater part of them are collected in the anthologies All In The Timing (originally an evening of six ...
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Jessel, Raymond
Born in 1929, Ray Jessel hails from Cardiff, where he received his music degree from the University of Wales. He won a scholarship to study composition for a year in Paris as a graduate student with Arthur Honegger. He emigrated to Canada, where he began ...
Johnston, Donald
Donald has been music director and/or arranger on more than a dozen Broadway shows, including Tony award winners 42ND STREET and NICHOLAS NICKELBY. He also has written arrangements and orchestrations for productions at the Goodspeed Opera House and ...
Joplin, Scott
Scott Joplin (1868-1917), American composer and pianist, is one of the most important developers of ragtime music. Born in Texarkana, Texas, Joplin taught himself piano as a child, learning classical music from a German neighbor. In his teens he became ...
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Kauffman, Marta
Marta Kauffman (b.1956) is best known for co-creating and executive producing the Emmy Award-winning series Friends. She also co-created and co-executive produced the comedy series Dream On, (Emmy Award nomination, CableAce Award), ...
Kaufman, George S.
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961) was born in Pittsburgh in 1889. During his early career as a reporter and drama critic (eventually he became drama editor of the New York Times), he began to write for the theatre. For 40 years, beginning in 1921 with ...
Kern, Jerome
Jerome Kern (1885-1945) composed his first complete show, THE RED PETTICOAT, in 1912. Between 1915 and 1919, he composed a series of intimate chamber musicals, mostly in collaboration with Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, known as the Princess Theatre ...
Kessler, Marc
MARC KESSLER is the co-creator of the long running off-Broadway hit musical ALTAR BOYZ, winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical 2005. For six years, Marc was a member of the tap dancing trio, the Manhattan Rhythm Kings. ...