Tony Award Nominators Announced For 2026-2027 Season — SkimNews
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- The Tony Awards Administration Committee named 65 people drawn from across the Broadway creative community to serve on the 2026-2027 Nominating Committee.
- Victoria Clark, the Tony-winning Kimberly Akimbo actor, is among the newly named committee members, alongside playwrights Migdalia Cruz and James Ijames, performer Lorna Luft, and former Washington Post chief theater critic Peter Marks.
- Committee members serve three-year terms, will attend every production during the 2026-2027 Broadway season, and will vote on a designated date to determine that season's Tony Award nominees.
- The 65-member roster spans the full Broadway ecosystem — directors, choreographers, composers, designers, performers, casting directors, educators, and institutional executives — including BD Wong, playwright Sanaz Toossi, costume designer William Ivey Long, and lighting designer Peter Kaczorowski.
- Institutional leaders on the committee include Deeksha Gaur (Theatre Development Fund), Khady Kamara Nunez (Perelman Performing Arts Center), Linda Shelton (The Joyce Theater Foundation), and James Bundy (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale).
- José Rivera, Joshua Harmon, and Sanaz Toossi headline the playwright contingent, while composers and lyricists include Anna K. Jacobs, Rona Siddiqui, and Michael Kooman.
Why it matters: These 65 voters will see every eligible Broadway production during the 2026-2027 season and collectively decide which shows, performances, and creative teams earn Tony nominations — and because members serve three-year terms, this single roster shapes the nomination slate across three consecutive Broadway seasons.
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