Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors writing in German today and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". Next to Peter Handke and Botho Strauss she is considered to be the most important living playwright of the German language.
Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath. He participated in the 1848 revolutions and his work reflects the new liberal spirit then spreading throughout Europe.
Sarah Meier is a Swiss former figure skater. She is the 2011 European champion, a two-time European silver medalist, the 2006 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and an eight-time Swiss national champion.
Sarah Ruhl is an American playwright, professor, and essayist. Among her most popular plays are Eurydice (2003), The Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (2009). She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career. Two of her plays have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and she received a nomination for Tony Award for Best Play. In 2020 she adapted her play Eurydice into the libretto for Matthew Aucoin's opera of the same name.
Sarah Sanguin Carter is a Canadian actress. She is known for her recurring role as Alicia Baker in the superhero series Smallville (2004–2005), Madeleine Poe in Shark (2006-2008), and main role as Maggie in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies (2011–2015).
Viktoria Helgesson is a retired Swedish figure skater. She is the 2011 Skate America bronze medalist, a five-time Nordic champion, and an eight-time Swedish national champion. She placed fifth at three European Championships. Her bronze medal at 2011 Skate America is the first Grand Prix medal by a Swedish skater.
Sarah Jane Millican is an English comedian. Millican won the comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In February 2013 she was listed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and in the same year married fellow comedian Gary Delaney. Her first book, How to Be Champion, was released in 2017, and Millican has performed on various tours mainly throughout the United Kingdom over the years.
Birgit Minichmayr is an Austrian actress born in Linz, Austria. She studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. For her work in Maren Ade's film Everyone Else she won Silver Bear for Best Actress at 59th Berlin International Film Festival. She is the only Austrian actress to win this award in history of the festival and the first Austrian actress to win best actress award at a major European film festival since 1956. She worked with several major European directors including Michael Haneke, Tom Tykwer and Jessica Hausner.
Sarah Kendall is an Australian comedian from Newcastle, New South Wales, now living in London. She won the Raw Comedy competition in 1998, regularly appeared on Australian television, and moved to the United Kingdom in 2000.
Katrina Jane Mitchell, better known as Katie Mitchell, is an English theatre director.
Andrea Breth is a stage director. Breth studied German and English language and literature in the University of Heidelberg from 1970 to 1972. In 1999, she became a resident director at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Andrea Breth grew up in Darmstadt. From 1971 to 1973 she studied literature at the University of Heidelberg. Her first directorial engagements took her to Bremen, Wiesbaden, Hamburg and Berlin, the Zurich Schauspielakademie and the Theater Neumarkt in Zurich. From 1983 to 1985, she was director at Theater Freiburg. Her production of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba won her the first of a number of invitations to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 1985. In the same year, Theater heute voted her Director of the Year. From 1986 to 1989 Breth worked at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. Green's Southand Gorki's The Last Ones saw Andrea Breth win her second invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen. In 1990 and 1992 she directed Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug at the Burgtheater and O'Caseys The End of the Beginning at the Akademietheater.
Aurelia Frick is a Liechtensteiner politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Education and Culture from 2009 until 2019.
Viktoria Yastrebova is a Russian operatic soprano. She is currently a principal of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Kathrin Röggla is an Austrian author and playwright. She was born in Salzburg. She has written numerous prose works, including essays, drama and radio plays. She has won many awards for her work.
Viktoria Tereshkina is a Russian ballet dancer, currently one of the stars of the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg.
Maya Stojan is a Swiss actress who lives in Los Angeles. She is best known for her recurring roles on Castle and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Viktória Kužmová is a Slovakian professional tennis player.
Monique Schwitter is a Swiss writer and actress.
Rosmarie Frick is a Swiss nurse and lecturer of a microsurgery course at the University Hospital of Zürich.
The Nestroy Theatre Prize is an Austrian theatre award named after the poet Johann Nepomuk Nestroy. In 2000, the city of Vienna decided to combine two less noticed theatre awards: the Kainz Medal and the Nestroy Ring for Viennese Satire. The prize honours outstanding achievements at the Viennese and other Austrian theatres. The prize has been awarded annually in eight up to fourteen categories. Its ceremony is held in Vienna and broadcast live on national television.
