Tony Award Nominators Announced For 2026-2027 Season

This season’s Tony Awards Nominating Committee will include, among others, Kimberly Akimbo actor Victoria Clark, playwrights Migdalia Cruz and James Ijames, performer Lorna Luft and former Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks, among others. In all, 65 people drawn from all aspects of the Broadway creative community were named today to the Nominating Committee by The Tony Awards Administration Committee. The Nominating Committee will attend all productions during the 2026-2027 Broadway season and will meet on a designated date to determine, by vote, the Tony Award nominees for the season. Members of the committee serve a three-year term. The 65 members of the 2026-2027 Nominating Committee are: Watch on Deadline Bryan Andes – Educator Bonnie Becker – Stage Manager Mark Bennett – Composer / Sound Designer / Educator Rob Berman – Music Director Jeremy Blocker – Creative Director / Executive Producer for Audible Theater Pamela Bradley – Performer Brian Harlan Brooks – Director / Choreographer / DEI Director James Bundy – Professor of Drama, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale Keith Bunin – Playwright Dr. Jamie Cacciola-Price – Theatre Educator / Director Kevin Cahoon – Actor / Director Jade King Carroll – Director / Producing Artistic Director, Chautauqua Theater Company Victoria Clark – Actor / Director / Educator Bruce Coughlin – Orchestrator Migdalia Cruz – Playwright / Librettist / Translator / Educator Will Davis – Choreographer / Director Scott Farthing – Cast Album Producer and Former Exec. V.P., Sony Masterworks US and Live Theater Donald P. Gagnon, Ph.D. –Theatre Arts Professor / Dramaturg Deeksha Gaur – Executive Director, Theatre Development Fund Tiffani Gavin – Executive Director, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Daniel Goldstein – Director / Writer Joshua Harmon – Playwright Wendall Harrington – Projection Designer Richard Hinds – Associate Director / Choreographer Timothy Huang – Composer / Lyricist / Librettist James Ijames – Playwright / Director / Educator Daniel K. Isaac – Performer / Playwright Anna K. Jacobs – Composer / Lyricist / Librettist Rosalie Joseph –Casting Director Rod Kaats – Producer / Director Peter Kaczorowski – Lighting Designer Mia Katigbak – Performer / Co-Founder, NAATCO Glen Kelly – Amanuensis / Composer Joyce Ketay – Theatrical Agent Michael Kooman – Composer L Morgan Lee – Actor Kate Levin – Cultural Assets Management Principal, Bloomberg Associates William Ivey Long – Costume Designer Lorna Luft – Performer Steve Mann – Retired / Acct Dir. Theatre Parties and Broadway Clubs / Group Sales B.O. at Broadway.com Peter Marks – Former Chief Theatre Critic, Washington Post Danny Mefford – Choreographer Khady Kamara Nunez – Executive Director, Perelman Performing Arts Center Katherine Oliver – Media and Technology Principal, Bloomberg Associates Jessica Paz – Sound Designer Georgina Pazcoguin – Actress / Producer / Diversity Advocate T. Oliver Reid – Actor / Director / Choreographer / Activist / Musical Theater Professor at Rider University José Rivera – Playwright / Director / Screenwriter Liam Robinson – Music Director / Composer / Arranger / Performer Carole Rothman – Co-Founder and Former Artistic Director, Second Stage Theater Roslyn S. Ruff – Performer Rafael Sánchez – Executive Artistic Director, Repertorio Español Linda Shelton – Executive Director, The Joyce Theater Foundation Rona Siddiqui – Composer / Lyricist Paul J. Smith – Stage Manager Mark Stanley – Lighting Designer Susan Soon He Stanton – Playwright / Television Writer / Screenwriter Pearl Sun – Performer Jeffrey Sweet – Playwright / Librettist Sanaz Toossi – Playwright Allyson Tucker – Choreographer / Director / Performer Alexandria Wailes – Actor / Director / Choreographer Charlotte Wilcox – Retired General Manager Sam Willmott – Composer / Lyricist BD Wong – Actor / Director / Playwright / Author