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Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play | |
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| 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
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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
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