St Stephen Coleman Street parish, London is probably best known to early modern theatre historians as the one-time home of joiner-turned-player and theatre builder, James Burbage, and as the birthplace of Shakespearean star actor, Richard Burbage; but as William Ingram has demonstrated, the mid-sixteenth century parish was home to a number of other performers and individuals with links to London’s early theatre and performance industries, including several minstrels; Peter Street, the carpenter who would later help Richard and Cuthbert Burbage build the Globe Theatre; and John Brayne, James Burbage’s brother-in-law and founder of the Red Lion playhouse, as well as Burbage’s collaborator in the building of the Theatre. 1 More recently, David Kathman has found evidence to link at least two Tudor royal players to the parish in the 1540s—brothers, George and John Birche—the latter of whom was a joiner as well as a player (like James Burbage), prompting Kathman...