---

As a service to the Internet community Bridges Web Services provides this comprehensive list of black theatre artists. Click these links to read about the individual artists. More links will be added as time goes on.

Alvin Ailey

Ira Aldridge

Mary Alice

Debbie Allen

Garland Anderson

J.A. Arneaux

back to top

Pearl Bailey

James Baldwin

Josephine Baker

Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

Angela Bassett

Hinton Battle

Harry Belafonte

Trazana Beverly

Eubie Blake

Jules Bledsoe

Marita Odette (Occomy) Bonner

Arna Bontemps

Alex Bradford

William Branch

Avery Brooks

Ann Brown

William (Mister) Brown

William Wells Brown

Theodore Browne

Ed Bullins

Mary Burrill

Anita Bush

back to top

Ben Caldwell

Diane Carroll

Rocky Carroll

Vinnette Carroll

Nell Carter

Adolph Ceaser

Alice Childress

Pearl Cleage

Bob Cole

Will Marion Cook

Harold Cruse

back to top

Walter Dallas

Ossie Davis

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Ruby Dee

Judy Dearing

Clinton Derricks-Carroll

Glenda Dickerson

Owen Dodson

Rita Dove

W.E.B.DuBois

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Todd Duncan

Katherine Dunham

Charles Dutton

back to top

Randolph Edmonds

H.F.V. Edward

Lonne Elder, III

Giancarlo Espisito

back to top

George Fasion

Laurence Fishburne

Charles H. Fuller, Jr.

back to top

Ruth Gaines-Shelton

P. J. Gibson

Charles Gilpin

Danny Glover

Savion Glover

Whoopi Goldberg

Carl Gordon

Charles Gordon (OyamO)

Charles Gordone

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Shirley Graham

Micki Grant

Angelina Weld Grimke

back to top

Delores Hall

Larry Leon Hamlin

Lorraine Hansberry

Bill Harris

Richard B. Harrison

James V. Hatch

Heather Headley

James Hewlett

Dubose Heyward

Abram Hill

Errol Hill

Gregory Hines

Earnest Hogan

Geoffrey Holder

Jennifer Holliday

Robert Hooks

Lena Horne

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

back to top

Rex Ingram

back to top

Judith Jameson

Billy Johnson

Georgia Douglas Johnson

James Weldon Johnson

John Rosamond Johnson

James Earl Jones

M. Sissieretta Jones

Rhodessa Jones

Scott Joplin

Ella Joyce

back to top

K

Adrienne Kennedy

Woodie King

Eartha Kitt

back to top

Leslie Lee

Kenny Leon

Cleavon Little

Myrtle Smith Livingston

Alaine Locke

Aubrey Lyles

back to top

Richard Maltby, Jr.

John Matheus

Robbie McCauley

Rose McClendon

Marion McClinton

Audra McDonald

S. Epatha Merkerson

Lou Meyers

Flornoy Miller

May Miller

Florence Mills

Stephanie Mills

Ron Milner

Lofton Mitchell

back to top

Feyard Nicholas

Harold Nicholas

Lynn Nottage

back to top

Frederick O'Neal

Ron O'Neil

OyamO

back to top

Suzan-Lori Parks

Thomas Pawley

Shauneille Perry

Clarke Peters

Michael Peters

Louis Peterson

Ethel Pitts-Walker

Sidney Poitier

back to top

Aishah Rahman

Lloyd Richards

Willis Richardson

Paul Robeson

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

Esther Rolle

Howard Rollins, Jr.

back to top

Sonia Sanchez

Diana Sands

Victor Sejour

Ntozake Shange

Ted Shine

Jesse A. Shipp

Noble Sissle

Charles Smalls

Anna Deavere Smith

Eulalie Spence

Ellen Stewart

Brian Stokes-Mitchell

back to top

Regina Taylor

Lynn Thigpen

Jean Toomer

Ridgely Torrence

Glenn Turman

back to top

Ben Vereen

back to top

Aida Overton Walker

George Walker

Joseph A. Walker

Fats Waller

Douglas Turner Ward

Theodore Ward

Denzel Washington

Ethel Waters

Cheryl L. West

August Wilson

Dooley Wilson

Bert Williams

Samm-Art Williams

George C. Wolfe

Richard Wright

back to top

Shay Youngblood

back to top

Athol Fugard

Wole Soyinka

Derek Walcott