Mixing
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Direction of a Play |
| Location | New York City |
| Presented by | American Theatre Wing The Broadway League |
| Currently held by | John Tiffany for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2018) |
| Website | TonyAwards.com |
The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play has been given since 1960. Before 1960 there was only one award for both play direction and musical direction, then in 1960 the award was split into two categories: Dramatic and Musical. In 1976 the Dramatic category was renamed to Play. For pre-1960 direction awards please reference Tony Award for Best Director.
Contents
1 Winners and nominees
1.1 1960s
1.2 1970s
1.3 1980s
1.4 1990s
1.5 2000s
1.6 2010s
2 Award records
2.1 Multiple wins
2.2 Multiple nominations
3 Female winners
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Winners and nominees
indicates the winner
1960s
| Year |
Director |
Production |
|---|---|---|
1960 14th Tony Awards | ||
Arthur Penn |
The Miracle Worker |
|
Joseph Anthony |
The Best Man |
|
Tyrone Guthrie |
The Tenth Man |
|
Elia Kazan |
Sweet Bird of Youth |
|
Lloyd Richards |
A Raisin in the Sun |
|
1961 15th Tony Awards | ||
John Gielgud |
Big Fish, Little Fish |
|
Joseph Anthony |
Rhinoceros |
|
Joan Littlewood |
The Hostage |
|
Arthur Penn |
All the Way Home |
|
1962 16th Tony Awards | ||
Noel Willman |
A Man for All Seasons |
|
Tyrone Guthrie |
Gideon |
|
Donald McWhinnie |
The Caretaker |
|
José Quintero |
Great Day in the Morning |
|
1963 17th Tony Awards | ||
Alan Schneider |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
|
George Abbott |
Never Too Late |
|
John Gielgud |
The School for Scandal |
|
Peter Glenville |
Tchin-Tchin |
|
1964 18th Tony Awards | ||
Mike Nichols |
Barefoot in the Park |
|
June Havoc |
Marathon '33 |
|
Alan Schneider |
The Ballad of the Sad Café |
|
Herman Shumlin |
The Deputy |
|
1965 19th Tony Awards | ||
Mike Nichols |
Luv |
|
The Odd Couple | ||
William Ball |
Tartuffe |
|
Ulu Grosbard |
The Subject Was Roses |
|
Alan Schneider |
Tiny Alice |
|
1966 20th Tony Awards | ||
Peter Brook |
Marat/Sade |
|
Hilton Edwards |
Philadelphia, Here I Come! |
|
Ellis Rabb |
You Can't Take It with You |
|
Noel Willman |
The Lion in Winter |
|
1967 21st Tony Awards | ||
Peter Hall |
The Homecoming |
|
John Dexter |
Black Comedy |
|
Donald Driver |
Marat/Sade |
|
Alan Schneider |
A Delicate Balance |
|
1968 22nd Tony Awards | ||
Mike Nichols |
Plaza Suite |
|
Michael Blakemore |
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg |
|
Derek Goldby |
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
|
Alan Schneider |
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running |
|
1969 23rd Tony Awards | ||
Peter Dews |
Hadrian VII |
|
Joseph Hardy |
Play It Again, Sam |
|
Harold Pinter |
The Man in the Glass Booth |
|
Michael A. Schultz |
Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? |
1970s
| Year |
Director |
Production |
|---|---|---|
1970 24th Tony Awards | ||
Joseph Hardy |
Child's Play |
|
Milton Katselas |
Butterflies Are Free |
|
Tómas Mac Anna |
Borstal Boy |
|
Robert Moore |
Last of the Red Hot Lovers |
|
1971 25th Tony Awards | ||
Peter Brook |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
|
Lindsay Anderson |
Home |
|
Stephen Porter |
The School for Wives |
|
Clifford Williams |
Sleuth |
|
1972 26th Tony Awards | ||
Mike Nichols |
The Prisoner of Second Avenue |
|
Jeff Bleckner |
Sticks and Bones |
|
Gordon Davidson |
The Trial of the Catsville Nine |
|
Peter Hall |
Old Times |
|
1973 27th Tony Awards | ||
A. J. Antoon |
That Championship Season |
|
A. J. Antoon |
Much Ado About Nothing |
|
Alan Arkin |
The Sunshine Boys |
|
Michael Rudman |
The Changing Room |
|
1974 28th Tony Awards | ||
José Quintero |
A Moon for the Misbegotten |
|
Burgess Meredith |
Ulysses in Nighttown |
|
Mike Nichols |
Uncle Vanya |
|
Stephen Porter |
Chemin de Fer |
|
Edwin Sherin |
Find Your Way Home |
|
1975 29th Tony Awards | ||
John Dexter |
Equus |
|
Arvin Brown |
The National Health |
|
Frank Dunlop |
Scapino |
|
Ronald Eyre |
London Assurance |
|
Athol Fugard |
Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island |
|
Gene Saks |
Same Time, Next Year |
|
1976 30th Tony Awards | ||
Ellis Rabb |
The Royal Family |
|
Arvin Brown |
Ah, Wilderness! |
|
Marshall W. Mason |
Knock Knock |
|
Peter Wood |
Travesties |
|
1977 31st Tony Awards | ||
Gordon Davidson |
The Shadow Box |
|
Ulu Grosbard |
American Buffalo |
|
Mike Nichols |
Comedians |
|
Streamers | ||
1978 32nd Tony Awards | ||
Melvin Bernhardt |
Da |
|
Robert Moore |
Deathtrap |
|
Mike Nichols |
The Gin Game |
|
| Dennis Rosa |
Dracula |
|
1979 33rd Tony Awards | ||
Jack Hofsiss |
The Elephant Man |
|
Alan Ayckbourn and Peter Hall |
Bedroom Farce |
|
Paul Giovanni |
The Crucifer of Blood |
|
Michael Lindsay-Hogg |
Whose Life Is It Anyway? |
1980s
| Year |
Director |
Production |
|---|---|---|
1980 34th Tony Awards | ||
Vivian Matalon |
Morning's at Seven |
|
Gordon Davidson |
Children of a Lesser God |
|
Peter Hall |
Betrayal |
|
Marshall W. Mason |
Talley's Folly |
|
1981 35th Tony Awards | ||
Peter Hall |
Amadeus |
|
Peter Coe |
A Life |
|
Marshall W. Mason |
Fifth of July |
|
Austin Pendleton |
The Little Foxes |
|
1982 36th Tony Awards | ||
John Caird and Trevor Nunn |
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
|
Melvin Bernhardt |
Crimes of the Heart |
|
Geraldine Fitzgerald |
Mass Appeal |
|
Athol Fugard |
"Master Harold"...and the Boys |
|
1983 37th Tony Awards | ||
Gene Saks |
Brighton Beach Memoirs |
|
Marshall W. Mason |
Angels Fall |
|
Tom Moore |
'Night, Mother |
|
Trevor Nunn |
All's Well That Ends Well |
|
1984 38th Tony Awards | ||
Mike Nichols |
The Real Thing |
|
Michael Blakemore |
Noises Off |
|
David Leveaux |
A Moon for the Misbegotten |
|
Gregory Mosher |
Glengarry Glen Ross |
|
1985 39th Tony Awards | ||
Gene Saks |
Biloxi Blues |
|
| Keith Hack |
Strange Interlude |
|
Terry Hands |
Much Ado About Nothing |
|
Marshall W. Mason |
As Is |
|
1986 40th Tony Awards | ||
Jerry Zaks |
The House of Blue Leaves |
|
Jonathan Miller |
Long Day's Journey Into Night |
|
José Quintero |
The Iceman Cometh |
|
John Tillinger |
Loot |
|
1987 41st Tony Awards | ||
Lloyd Richards |
Fences |
|
Howard Davies |
Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
|
Mbongeni Ngema |
Asinamali! |
|
| Carole Rothman |
Coastal Disturbances |
|
1988 42nd Tony Awards | ||
John Dexter |
M. Butterfly |
|
Gregory Mosher |
Speed-the-Plow |
|
Lloyd Richards |
Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
|
Clifford Williams |
Breaking the Code |
|
1989 43rd Tony Awards | ||
Jerry Zaks |
Lend Me a Tenor |
|
Bill Irwin |
Largely New York |
|
Gregory Mosher |
Our Town |
|
Daniel J. Sullivan |
The Heidi Chronicles |
1990s
| Year |
Director |
Production |
|---|---|---|
1990 44th Tony Awards | ||
Frank Galati |
The Grapes of Wrath |
|
Michael Blakemore |
Lettice and Lovage |
|
Peter Hall |
The Merchant of Venice |
|
Lloyd Richards |
The Piano Lesson |
|
1991 45th Tony Awards | ||
Jerry Zaks |
Six Degrees of Separation |
|
Richard Jones |
La Bête |
|
Mark Lamos |
Our Country's Good |
|
Gene Saks |
Lost in Yonkers |
|
1992 46th Tony Awards | ||
Patrick Mason |
Dancing at Lughnasa |
|
Peter Hall |
Four Baboons Adoring the Sun |
|
Jack O'Brien |
Two Shakespearean Actors |
|
Daniel J. Sullivan |
Conversations with My Father |
|
1993 47th Tony Awards | ||
George C. Wolfe |
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches |
|
David Leveaux |
Anna Christie |
|
Eric Simonson |
The Song of Jacob Zulu |
|
Daniel J. Sullivan |
The Sisters Rosensweig |
|
1994 48th Tony Awards | ||
Stephen Daldry |
An Inspector Calls |
|
Gerald Gutierrez |
Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
|
Michael Langham |
Timon of Athens |
|
George C. Wolfe |
Angels in America: Perestroika |
|
1995 49th Tony Awards | ||
Gerald Gutierrez |
The Heiress |
|
Emily Mann |
Having Our Say |
|
Joe Mantello |
Love! Valour! Compassion! |
|
Sean Mathias |
Indiscretions |
|
1996 50th Tony Awards | ||
Gerald Gutierrez |
A Delicate Balance |
|
Peter Hall |
An Ideal Husband |
|
Lloyd Richards |
Seven Guitars |
|
Gary Sinise |
Buried Child |
|
1997 51st Tony Awards | ||
Anthony Page |
A Doll's House |
|
John Caird |
Stanley |
|
Richard Eyre |
Skylight |
|
Charles Nelson Reilly |
The Gin Game |
|
1998 52nd Tony Awards | ||
Garry Hynes |
The Beauty Queen of Leenane |
|
Michael Mayer |
A View from the Bridge |
|
Simon McBurney |
The Chairs |
|
Matthew Warchus |
'Art' |
|
1999 53rd Tony Awards | ||
Robert Falls |
Death of a Salesman |
|
Howard Davies |
The Iceman Cometh |
|
Garry Hynes |
The Lonesome West |
|
Trevor Nunn |
Not About Nightingales |
2000s
| Year |
Director |
Production |
|---|---|---|
2000 54th Tony Awards | ||
Michael Blakemore |
Copenhagen |
|
James Lapine |
Dirty Blonde |
|
David Leveaux |
The Real Thing |
|
Matthew Warchus |
True West |
|
2001 55th Tony Awards | ||
Daniel J. Sullivan |
Proof |
|
Marion McClinton |
King Hedley II |
|
Ian McElhinney |
Stones in His Pockets |
|
Jack O'Brien |
The Invention of Love |
|
2002 56th Tony Awards | ||
Mary Zimmerman |
Metamorphoses |
|
Howard Davies |
Private Lives |
|
Richard Eyre |
The Crucible |
|
Daniel J. Sullivan |
Morning's at Seven |
|
2003 57th Tony Awards | ||
Joe Mantello |
Take Me Out |
|
Laurence Boswell |
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg |
|
Robert Falls |
Long Day's Journey Into Night |
|
Deborah Warner |
Medea |
|
2004 58th Tony Awards | ||
Jack O'Brien |
Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 |
|
Doug Hughes |
Frozen |
|
Moises Kaufman |
I Am My Own Wife |
|
David Leveaux |
Jumpers |
|
2005 59th Tony Awards | ||
Doug Hughes |
Doubt: A Parable |
|
John Crowley |
The Pillowman |
|
Scott Ellis |
Twelve Angry Men |
|
Joe Mantello |
Glengarry Glen Ross |
|
2006 60th Tony Awards | ||
Nicholas Hytner |
The History Boys |
|
Wilson Milam |
The Lieutenant of Inishmore |
|
Bartlett Sher |
Awake and Sing! |
|
Daniel J. Sullivan |
Rabbit Hole |
|
2007 61st Tony Awards | ||
Jack O'Brien |
The Coast of Utopia |
|
Michael Grandage |
Frost/Nixon |
|
| David Grindley |
Journey's End |
|
Melly Still |
Coram Boy |
|
2008 62nd Tony Awards | ||
Anna D. Shapiro |
August: Osage County |
|
Maria Aitken |
The 39 Steps |
|
Conor McPherson |
The Seafarer |
|
Matthew Warchus |
Boeing Boeing |
|
2009 63rd Tony Awards | ||
Matthew Warchus |
God of Carnage |
|
Phyllida Lloyd |
Mary Stuart |
|
Bartlett Sher |
Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
|
Matthew Warchus |
The Norman Conquests |
2010s
| Year |
Director |
Production |
|---|---|---|
2010 64th Tony Awards | ||
Michael Grandage |
Red |
|
| Sheryl Kaller |
Next Fall |
|
Kenny Leon |
Fences |
|
Gregory Mosher |
A View from the Bridge |
|
2011 65th Tony Awards | ||
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris |
War Horse |
|
Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe |
The Normal Heart |
|
Anna D. Shapiro |
The Motherfucker with the Hat |
|
Daniel J. Sullivan |
The Merchant of Venice |
|
2012 66th Tony Awards | ||
Mike Nichols |
Death of a Salesman |
|
Nicholas Hytner |
One Man, Two Guvnors |
|
Pam MacKinnon |
Clybourne Park |
|
Roger Rees and Alex Timbers |
Peter and the Starcatcher |
|
2013 67th Tony Awards | ||
Pam MacKinnon |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
|
| Nicholas Martin |
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike |
|
Bartlett Sher |
Golden Boy |
|
George C. Wolfe |
Lucky Guy |
|
2014 68th Tony Awards | ||
Kenny Leon |
A Raisin in the Sun |
|
| Tim Carroll |
Twelfth Night |
|
Michael Grandage |
The Cripple of Inishmaan |
|
John Tiffany |
The Glass Menagerie |
|
2015 69th Tony Awards | ||
Marianne Elliott |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
|
Stephen Daldry |
Skylight |
|
Scott Ellis |
You Can't Take It with You |
|
Jeremy Herrin |
Wolf Hall Parts One & Two |
|
| Moritz von Stuelpnagel |
Hand to God |
|
2016 70th Tony Awards | ||
Ivo van Hove |
A View from the Bridge |
|
Rupert Goold |
King Charles III |
|
Jonathan Kent |
Long Day's Journey into Night |
|
Joe Mantello |
The Humans |
|
Liesl Tommy |
Eclipsed |
|
2017 71st Tony Awards | ||
Rebecca Taichman |
Indecent |
|
Sam Gold |
A Doll's House, Part 2 |
|
Ruben Santiago-Hudson |
Jitney |
|
Bartlett Sher |
Oslo |
|
Daniel J. Sullivan |
The Little Foxes |
|
2018 72nd Tony Awards | ||
John Tiffany |
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child |
|
Marianne Elliott |
Angels in America |
|
Joe Mantello |
Three Tall Women |
|
Patrick Marber |
Travesties |
|
George C. Wolfe |
The Iceman Cometh |
Award records
Multiple wins
- 6 Wins
- Mike Nichols
- 3 Wins
- Jerry Zaks
- 2 Wins
- Peter Brook
- John Dexter
- Marianne Elliott
- Gerald Gutierrez
- Peter Hall
- Jack O'Brien
- Gene Saks
Multiple nominations
|
|
Female winners
Only 6 women have won this award:[1]
- Garry Hynes – The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1998)[2]
- Mary Zimmerman – Metamorphoses (2002)[3]
- Anna D. Shapiro – August: Osage County (2008)[4]
- Pam MacKinnon – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? revival (2013)[5]
- Marianne Elliott – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2015)[6]
- Rebecca Taichman – Indecent (2017)[7]
Elliott also won this award with Tom Morris – War Horse (2011)[8]
See also
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director
References
^ Clement, Olivia. "Can You Name the 9 Trailblazing Women Who Won Tony Awards for Directing?" Playbill, September 28, 2017
^ "Best Direction of a Play Garry Hynes" Playbill, retrieved September 27, 2017
^ "2002 Tony Award Direction of a Play" Playbill, retrieved September 27, 2017
^ "Just the Facts: List of 2008 Tony Award Winners and Nominees" Playbill, retrieved September 27, 2017
^ "Tony Awards 2013 List of Winners" CBS News, retrieved September 27, 2017
^ "2015 Tony Awards Just the Winners Please" Playbill, retrieved September 27, 2017
^ "Tony Winners List" The New York Times, retrieved September 27, 2017
^ [1] Variety, retrieved September 27, 2017
External links
- Tony Award for Direction of a Play ibdb
- Tony Awards official site
Comments
Post a Comment