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:
Mark Bennett – Composer / Sound Designer / Educator
Jeremy Blocker – Creative Director / Executive Producer for Audible Theater
Brian Harlan Brooks – Director / Choreographer / DEI Director
James Bundy – Professor of Drama, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale
Dr. Jamie Cacciola-Price – Theatre Educator / Director
Jade King Carroll – Director / Producing Artistic Director, Chautauqua Theater Company
Migdalia Cruz – Playwright / Librettist / Translator / Educator
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
Richard Hinds – Associate Director / Choreographer
Anna K. Jacobs – Composer / Lyricist / Librettist
Kate Levin – Cultural Assets Management Principal, Bloomberg Associates
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
Khady Kamara Nunez – Executive Director, Perelman Performing Arts Center
Katherine Oliver – Media and Technology Principal, Bloomberg Associates
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
Rafael Sánchez – Executive Artistic Director, Repertorio Español
Linda Shelton – Executive Director, The Joyce Theater Foundation
Susan Soon He Stanton – Playwright / Television Writer / Screenwriter
Allyson Tucker – Choreographer / Director / Performer
Alexandria Wailes – Actor / Director / Choreographer
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