Polish director, innovator of Experimental Theatre. The Holy Actor, Holy Audience, Via Negativa.
Jerzy Grotowski
100
Swiss architect, and lighting design innovator. Use light to sculpt the space. Three dimensions. One person controls everything. Artistic unity. Eurythmics - movement and rythms of words and text to imply gesture.
Adolph Appia
100
Spanish playwright, director. Member of the Generation of '27. Killed by Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. "El público" (The Public).
Frederico Garcia Lorca
100
Israel-born American acting teacher, actor, director. Co-founder of Group Theatre. The father of method acting in America.
Lee Strasburg
100
American songwriting team for musicals. "Cabaret."
Kander and Ebb
200
French actor, manager, director, author, critic. The father of modern mise en scène.
Andre Antoine
200
French-born American scenic and light designer. Often designed both light and set for Broadway shows.
Jo Mielziner
200
American playwright, social Realist. "Death of a Salesman." "The Crucible."
Arthur Miller
200
American producer, director. Co-founder of Group Theatre.
Cheryl Crawford
300
American playwright, producer, director, writer. Directed the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Hallie Flannagan Davis
300
Czechoslovakian designer and innovator. Holistic, architectural, non-naturalistic approach to design. His designs have been featured at Laterna Magika, a multimedia theatre.
Joseph Svoboda
300
American playwright, lyric poet. "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Tennessee Williams
300
American director, critic. Co-founder of Group Theatre.
Harold Clurman
300
African-American performance artist. Best known for her series of one-woman acts "On the Road: A Search for American Character."
Anna Deavere Smith
400
American director and producer. Produced or directed over 400 plays. Founded the Public Theatre, which was renamed after him when he died. Founded the New York Shakespeare Festival, to make Shakespeare accessible to the public.
Joseph Papp
400
Chinese designer. Studied and worked in America (including Broadway). The stage is finite. He is known for his use of scaffolds, pipes, railings, and suggestive set pieces that localize each particular scene without being "realistic."
Ming Cho Lee
400
Venezuelan-born playwright, director. Founder of the Tectonic Theater Project. "The Laramie Project." Also, he is Jewish and gay.
Moises Kaufman
400
Japanese director. Founder of SITI Company. Founder of Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT). The Suzuki method of actor training.
Tadashi Suzuki
400
Brazilian director, writer. Founder of Theatre of the Oppressed. Forum theatre: repeat scenario until situation is resolved. Wrote "Games For Actors and Non-Actors."
Augusto Boal
500
American director. Founder and director of the experimental theatre collective Wooster Group.
Elizabeth Lecompte
500
American musical theatre composer and lyricist. "Wicked." "Godspell."
Stephen Schwartz
500
English director and innovator. Royal Shakespeare Company Director. Wrote "The Empty Space."
Peter Brook
500
French director. Founded Théâtre du Soleil.
Ariane Mnouchkine
500
American director, theorist. Viewpoints. Founder of SITI Company.