Awards Season 2024: Tony Award Winners

June 16, 2024

It was an amazing Tony Awards. Thank you for joining us as we updated through the red carpet, “Act One” and Awards. We had the best time and are so happy for all of the tearful winners.

We can’t believe the 2024 Awards Season is over., and have officially started the campaign to get Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad as hosts in 2025. Now go to New York and your local theatres and see a show or twenty!!!!

Here is the full list of 2024 nominees. Winners are marked with stars.

Best New Musical
The Outsiders
Hell’s Kitchen
Illinoise
Suffs
Water for Elephants

Best New Play
Stereophonic
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Mary Jane
Mother Play
Prayer for the French Republic

Best Revival of a Musical
Merrily We Roll Along
Cabaret
Gutenberg! The Musical!
The Who’s Tommy

Best Revival of a Play
Appropriate
An Enemy of the People
Purlie Victorious

Best Book of a Musical
Shaina Taub, Suffs
Kristoffer Diaz, Hell’s Kitchen
Bekah Brunstetter, The Notebook
Adam Rapp and Justin Levine, The Outsiders
Rick Elice, Water for Elephants

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Suffs
Days of Wine and Roses
Here Lies Love
Stereophonic
The Outsiders

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Jeremy Strong, An Enemy of the People
William Jackson Harper, Uncle Vanya
Leslie Odom Jr., Purlie Victorious
Liev Schreiber, Doubt
Michael Stuhlbarg, Patriots

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Republic
Jessica Lange, Mother Play
Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane
Sarah Paulson, Appropriate
Amy Ryan, Doubt

Best Performance by an Actor in Leading Role in a Musical
Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along
Brody Grant, The Outsiders
Dorian Harewood, The Notebook
Brian d’Arcy James, Days of Wine and Roses
Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Maleah Joi Moon, Hell’s Kitchen
Eden Espinosa, Lempicka
Kelli O’Hara, Days of Wine and Roses
Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook
Gayle Rankin, Cabaret

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Will Brill, Stereophonic
Eli Gelb, Stereophonic
Jim Parsons, Mother Play
Tom Pecinka, Stereophonic
Corey Stoll, Appropriate

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Kara Young, Purlie Victorious
Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Doubt
Juliana Canfield, Stereophonic
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Mother Play
Sarah Pidgeon, Stereophonic

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along
Roger Bart, Back to the Future
Joshua Boone, The Outsiders
Brandon Victor Dixon, Hell’s Kitchen
Sky Lakota-Lynch, The Outsiders
Steven Skybell, Cabaret

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Kecia Lewis, Hell’s Kitchen
Shoshana Bean, Hell’s Kitchen
Amber Iman, Lempicka
Nikki M. James, Suffs
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Spamalot
Lindsay Mendez, Merrily We Roll Along
Bebe Neuwirth, Cabaret

Best Direction of a Play
Daniel Aukin, Stereophonic
Anne Kauffman, Mary Jane
Kenny Leon, Purlie Victorious
Lila Neugebauer, Appropriate
Whitney White, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding

Best Direction of a Musical
Maria Friedman, Merrily We Roll Along
Michael Greif, Hell’s Kitchen
Leigh Silverman, Suffs
Jessica Stone, Water for Elephants
Danya Taymor, The Outsiders

Best Choreography
Justin Peck, Illinoise
Camille A. Brown, Hell’s Kitchen
Annie-B Parson, Here Lies Love
Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman, The Outsiders
Jesse Robb and Shana Carroll, Water for Elephants

Best Orchestrations
Jonathan Tunick, Merrily We Roll Along
Timo Andres, Illinoise
Will Butler and Justin Craig, Stereophonic
Justin Levine, Matt Hinkley and Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance), The Outsiders
Tom Kitt and Adam Blackstone, Hell’s Kitchen

Best Scenic Design of a Play
David Zinn, Stereophonic
dots, Appropriate
dots, An Enemy of the People
Derek McLane, Purlie Victorious
David Zinn, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding

Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Tom Scutt, Cabaret
AMP featuring Tatiana Kahvegian, The Outsiders
Robert Brill and Peter Nigrini, Hell’s Kitchen
Takeshi Kata, Water for Elephants
David Korins, Here Lies Love
Riccardo Hernández and Peter Nigrini, Lempicka
Tim Hatley and Finn Ross, Back to the Future

Best Costume Design of a Play
Dede Ayite, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Dede Ayite, Appropriate
Enver Chakartash, Stereophonic
Emilio Sosa, Purlie Victorious
David Zinn, An Enemy of the People

Best Costume Design of a Musical
Linda Cho, The Great Gatsby
Dede Ayite, Hell’s Kitchen
David Israel Reynoso, Water for Elephants
Tom Scutt, Cabaret
Paul Tazewell, Suffs

Best Lighting Design of a Play
Jane Cox, Appropriate
Isabella Byrd, An Enemy of the People
Amith Chandrashaker, Prayer for the French Republic
Jiyoun Chang, Stereophonic
Natasha Katz, Grey House

Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim, The Outsiders
Brandon Stirling Baker, Illinoise
Isabella Byrd, Cabaret
Natasha Katz, Hell’s Kitchen
Bradley King and David Bengali, Water for Elephants

Best Sound Design in a Play
Ryan Rumery, Stereophonic
Justin Ellington and Stefania Bulbarella, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Leah Gelpe, Mary Jane
Tom Gibbons, Grey House
Bray Poor and Will Pickens, Appropriate

Best Sound Design in a Musical
Cody Spencer, The Outsiders
M.L. Dogg and Cody Spencer, Here Lies Love
Kai Harada, Merrily We Roll Along
Nick Lidster for Autograph, Cabaret
Gareth Owen, Hell’s Kitchen

Regional Theatre Tony Award
The Wilma Theater – Philadelphia, PA

Excellence In Theatre Education Award
CJay Philip, Creative Director of Dance & Bmore, Baltimore, MD

Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Jack O’Brien
George C. Wolfe

Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Billy Porter

Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre
Wendall K. Harrington
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack
Judith O. Rubin
The Dramatists Guild Foundation
The Friedman Health Center

Special Tony Awards
Alex Edelman
Abe Jacob
Nikiya Mathis