WNatalina "Lina" Cavalieri was an Italian operatic soprano, actress, and monologist.
WCatharine Smiley Cheatham was an American singer, monologist, and actress.
WSpalding Gray was an American actor and writer. He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several, working with different directors.
WJoyce Irene Grenfell OBE was an English comedian, singer, actress, monologist, scriptwriter and producer. For her film appearances, she was cast in such roles as the gym mistress Miss Gossage in The Happiest Days of Your Life and Ruby Gates in the St Trinian's films.
WGary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He is best known as the creator of the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs one or two poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history.
WPamela Palenciano is a Spanish monologist, communicator and feminist activist, internationally recognized for her theatrical monologue No solo duelen los golpes, an autobiographical story about gender violence through humor and irony.
WMabel Rowland was an American monologist, actress, writer, director, editor, and the founder of the Metropolitan Players in New York City.