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Katori Hall, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and More Join Tony Nominating Committee

The committee of Tony nominators will include 50 members.

Kenji Fujishima

Kenji Fujishima

| Broadway |

July 27, 2017

Katori Hall will be joining the nominating committee for the 2017-2018 Tony Awards.
Katori Hall will be joining the nominating committee for the 2017-2018 Tony Awards.
(© David Gordon)

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced its 2017-18 Broadway season nominating committee, which will comprise 50 members. The committee attends all productions during the Broadway season and meets to determine, by vote, the Tony Award nominees for that season. Members serve a three-year term.

The full list is as follows. New members are denoted in bold.

Bob Alwine – Associate Producer, Goodspeed Musicals
Adrian Bailey – Actor
Victoria Bailey – Executive Director, Theatre Development Fund
Milly Barranger – Author/Educator
Suzy Benzinger – Costume Designer
Luis Castro – Media and Entertainment Executive, Producer
Dawn Chiang – Lighting Designer
Hope Clarke – Choreographer
Trip Cullman – Director
Patricia Cruz – Executive Director, Harlem Stage/Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
Carmen de Lavallade – Choreographer
Edgar Dobie – Executive Producer, Arena Stage – Washington, D.C.
Judith Dolan – Costume Designer
Scott Elliott – Director, Artistic Director, The New Group
Tim Federle – Novelist, Playwright
Peter Jay Fernandez – Actor, Educator
Anna Glass – Executive Director, Dance Theatre of Harlem
Daniel Goldfarb – Playwright, Bookwriter
Sam Gonzalez – Director of Operations, Pfizer Medical/Board of Trustees, Playwrights Horizons
Mason Granger – Director of Grants, Hearst Foundation
Adam Gwon – Composer, Lyricist
Katori Hall – Playwright
Roy Harris – Production Stage Manager
Peter Hedges – Writer
Mara Isaacs – Founder and Director, Octopus Theatricals, LLC
Lou Jacob – Director
Michael Kantor – Executive Producer, American Masters
Anne Keefe – Associate Artist, Westport Country Playhouse
Celia Keenan-Bolger – Actor
Marjorie Bradley Kellogg – Scenic Designer
Tom Kitt – Composer, Lyricist, Bookwriter
Fran Kumin – Consultant, Performing Arts Organizations, Foundations, University Theatre Programs
Michael John LaChiusa – Composer, Lyricist, Librettist
Tony Meola – Sound Designer
Jessica Molaskey – Actor
Sheila Nevins – President, HBO Documentary Films
Laurence O’Keefe – Composer, Lyricist, Bookwriter
Paige Price – Producing Artistic Director, Philadelphia Theatre Company
Paul Rudnick – Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist
Don Scardino – Director, Actor
Mikki Shepard – Executive Producer, The Apollo Theatre
Warner Shook – Director
Randy Skinner – Director, Choreographer
Ellen Sorrin – Director, The George Balanchine Trust
Jessica Stone – Actor, Director
Edward Strong – Producer
Jose Antonio Vargas – Journalist, Filmmaker, Founder of Define American
Jennifer von Mayrhauser – Costume Designer
Tom Watson – Retired Executive, Television Advertising
Evan Yionoulis – Director

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