| Protagonist | Play |
| Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
| Nora Helmer | |
| Blanche DuBois | |
| John Proctor | |
| Randle Patrick (R.P.) McMurphy | |
| Peter Pan | |
| Lear, King of Britain | |
| Larry Slade | |
| Tom Wingfield | |
| Dr. Faustus | |
| Jack Worthing | |
| Elmire/Cléante/Dorine/Mariane/Valére | |
| Antigone or Creon | |
| Marc Antony | |
| Medea | |
| Emily Webb | |
| Father Flynn | |
| Joan | |
| Viola | |
| Prospero | |
| | Protagonist | Play |
| Willy Loman | |
| Walter Lee Younger | |
| Troy Maxson | |
| Dionysus | |
| Mirabell | |
| Charles Surface | |
| Kate Hardcastle | |
| Lyobov Ranevsky | |
| Alceste | |
| Volpone | |
| Vladimir and Estragon | |
| Thomas Becket | |
| Louis, Joe, Prior, Harper | |
| Oedipus | |
| Sir Thomas More | |
| Regina Giddens | |
| Kattrin, Mother Courage, Swiss Cheese | |
| Macbeth | |
| Anne Sullivan / Helen Keller | |
| Hedda Gabler | |
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