The Tony Awards Management Committee announced the Nominating Committee for the 2026-27 Broadway season, with former Washington Post chief theater critic Peter Marks and playwrights José Rivera and Migdalia Cruz among the new members.
Each Broadway season, the Nominating Committee attends all eligible productions and meets to vote on that year’s Tony Award nominees. This year’s committee consists of 65 members who will serve three-year staggered terms.
Newcomers to the committee include Bonnie Becker, Keith Bunin, Bruce Coughlin, Migdalia Cruz, Scott Farthing, Wendall Harrington, Daniel K. Isaac, Mia Katigbak, Joyce Ketay, Michael Kooman, William Ivey Long, Khady Kamara Nunez, Jose Rivera, Linda Shelton, Rona Siddiqui, Pearl Sun, Sanaz Toossi, Allyson Tucker and Sam Willmott.
Presented by the Broadway League and the American Theater Wing, the Tony Awards are the highest honors in live theatre. The upcoming Broadway season will include productions such as “Paddington: The Musical”, Dolly Parton’s “Dolly”, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Warriors” and Jamie Lloyd’s “Evita” starring Rachel Zegler.
Last season’s Tonys movie, “Schmigadoon,” a comedy about a couple stranded in a magical town, won the best musical award. “Salvation,” an exploration of feminism and social change, won best play. Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” won the award for best revival of a play, while “Ragtime” received the award for best revival of a musical. Acting awards went to John Lithgow (“Giant”), Lesley Manville (“Oedipus”), Joshua Henry (“Ragtime”), Caissie Levy (“Ragtime”), Laurie Metcalf (“Death of a Salesman”), among others.
See the full list of the 2026-2027 Tony Awards Nominating Committee below.
(*Indicates new members.)
2026-2027 Tony Awards Nominating Committee
- Bryan Andes — Educator*
- Bonnie Becker — Stage Manager*
- Mark Bennett — Composer/Sound Designer/Educator
- Rob Berman – Music Director
- Jeremy Blocker — Creative Director/Executive Producer, Audible Theater
- Pamela Bradley — Actress*
- Brian Harlan Brooks — Director/Choreographer/DEI Director
- James Bundy — Professor of Drama, Yale David Geffen School of Drama*
- Keith Bunin — Playwright*
- Dr. Jamie Cacciola-Price — Theater Educator/Director
- Kevin Cahoon — Actor/Director
- Jade King Carroll — Director/Producer 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 Executive Vice President, Sony Masterworks USA and Live Theater*
- Donald P. Gagnon, Ph.D. — Theater Arts Professor/Dramaturg
- Deeksha Gaur – Executive Director, Theater Development Fund
- Tiffani Gavin – Executive Director, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
- Daniel Goldstein — Director/Writer
- Joshua Harmon – Playwright
- Wendall Harrington — Projection Designer*
- Richard Hinds – Assistant Director / Choreographer
- Timothy Huang — Composer/Lyricist/Librettist
- James Ijames — Playwright/Director/Educator
- Daniel K. Isaac — Actor/Playwright*
- Anna K. Jacobs — Composer/Lyricist/Librettist
- Rosalie Joseph — Casting Director
- Rod Kaats — Producer/Director
- Peter Kaczorowski – Lighting Designer
- Mia Katigbak — Artist/Co-Founder, NAATCO*
- Glen Kelly — Expert/Composer
- Joyce Ketay — Theater Representative*
- Michael Kooman — Composer*
- L Morgan Lee — Actor
- Kate Levin — Director of Cultural Assets Management, Bloomberg Associates*
- William Ivey Long — Costume Designer*
- Lorna Luft — Artist*
- Steve Mann — Retired/Account Director, Theater Parties and Broadway Clubs/Group Sales, Broadway.com*
- Peter Marks – Former Chief Theater Critic, Washington Post
- Danny Mefford – Choreographer
- Khady Kamara Núñez — Executive Director, Perelman Center for the Performing Arts*
- Katherine Oliver — Media and Technology Manager, Bloomberg Associates*
- Jessica Paz — Sound Designer
- Georgina Pazcoguin — Actress/Producer/Diversity Advocate
- T. Oliver Reid — Actor/Director/Choreographer/Activist/Professor of Musical Theatre, 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 — Performance Artist*
- Rafael Sánchez — Executive Artistic Director, Spanish Repertoire
- Linda Shelton – Executive Director, 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 — Artist*
- Jeffrey Sweet – Playwright/Librettist
- Sanaz Toossi — Playwright*
- Allyson Tucker — Choreographer/Director/Artist*
- Alexandria Wailes — Actor/Director/Choreographer
- Charlotte Wilcox – Retired General Manager
- Sam Willmott — Composer/Lyricist*
- BD Wong — Actor/Director/Playwright/Author