Theatregoers are always hungry for the next big thing. The fact is, theatre takes a long time to incubate and make. (Just ask Tina Fey who thought there was no way it could take five years to adapt her hit movie Mean Girls into a musical—and then it took five years adapt Mean Girls into a musical.) Playbill has been keeping its proverbial ear to the ground about the creators in the theatre community who are working on plays, musicals, and events that could impact the theatre in big ways. Get to know them now: