2025 Award Season – Tony Award Winners

UPDATE: Most people seem to agree that #cynthiaerivo nailed the hosting gig, and the 2025 Tony Awards were overall a great success with exciting and well deserved wins all around! Thanks for joining us again this year and see you at the stage door at the next musical!!!

It’s here. Tonys night is here. Make sure you’re prepped and know what to watch for tonight…then bookmark this page, as we’ll be updating winners live throughout the ceremony (we’ll also be live tweetingfacebookinginstagramming, and updating if you want to join us in those spaces). So excited to celebrate with all of you. Congrats to all of this winners and happy Tonys!

Below are all of this year’s nominees. Winners are marked with a

Best Play
Purpose
John Proctor is the Villain
English
Oh, Mary!
The Hills of California

Best Musical
Maybe Happy Ending
Dead Outlaw
Death Becomes Her
Operation Mincemeat
Buena Vista Social Club

Best Revival of a Play
Eureka Day
Romeo + Juliet
Our Town
Yellow Face

Best Revival of a Musical
Sunset Blvd.
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
Pirates! The Penzance Musical

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Blvd.
Audra McDonald, Gypsy
Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her
Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her
Jasmine Amy Rogers, Boop! The Musical

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending
Tom Francis, Sunset Blvd.
James Monroe Iglehart, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw
Jeremy Jordan, Floyd Collins
Jonathan Groff, Just in Time

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sadie Sink, John Proctor is the Villain
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose
Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California
Mia Farrow, The Roommate

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Cole Escola, Oh, Mary!
Henry Lennix, Purpose
Jon Michael Hill, Purpose
George Clooney, Good Night, And Good Luck
Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Daniel Dae Kim, Yellow Face

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Kara Young, Purpose
Tala Ashe, English
Jessica Hecht, Eureka Day
Marjan Neshat, English
Fina Strazza, John Proctor is the Villain

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Francis Jue, Yellow Face
Glenn Davis, Purpose
Gabriel Ebert, John Proctor is the Villain
Bob Odenkirk, Glengarry Glen Ross
Conrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary!

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club
Julia Knitel, Dead Outlaw
Gracie Lawrence, Just in Time
Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves
Joy Woods, Gypsy

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat
Brooks Ashmanskas, Smash
Jeb Brown, Dead Outlaw
Danny Burstein, Gypsy
Taylor Trensch, Floyd Collins

Best Direction of a Play
Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary!
Knud Adams, English
Sam Mendes, The Hills of California
Danya Taymor, John Proctor is the Villain
Kip Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Direction of a Musical
Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending
Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club
David Cromer, Dead Outlaw
Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
Jamie Lloyd, Sunset Blvd.

Best Book of a Musical
Will Aronson and Hue Park, Maybe Happy Ending
Marco Ramirez, Buena Vista Social Club
Itamar Moses, Dead Outlaw
Marco Pennette, Death Becomes Her
David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoe Roberts, Operation Mincemeat

Best Original Score Written for the Theatre
Will Aronson and Hue Park, Maybe Happy Ending
David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, Dead Outlaw
Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, Death Becomes Her
David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoe Roberts, Operation Mincemeat
Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez, Real Women Have Curves

Best Scenic Design of a Play
Miriam Buether and 59, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Marsha Ginsberg, English
Rob Howell, The Hills of California
Marg Horwell and David Bergman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Scott Pask, Good Night, And Good Luck

Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Dane Laffrey and George Reeve, Maybe Happy Ending
Rachel Hauck, Swept Away
Arnulfo Maldonado, Buena Vista Social Club
Derek McLane, Death Becomes Her
Derek McLane, Just in Time

Best Costume Design of a Play
Marg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Brenda Abbandandolo, Good Night, And Good Luck
Rob Howell, The Hills of California
Holly Pierson, Oh, Mary!
Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Best Costume Design of a Musical
Paul Tazewell, Death Becomes Her
Dede Ayite, Buena Vista Social Club
Gregg Barnes, Boop! The Musical
Clint Ramos, Maybe Happy Ending
Catherine Zuber, Just in Time

Best Lighting Design of a Play
Jon Clark, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Natasha Chivers, The Hills of California
Heather Gilbert and David Bengali, Good Night, And Good Luck
Natasha Katz and Hannah Wasileski, John Proctor is the Villain
Nick Schlieper, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Jack Knowles, Sunset Blvd.
Tyler Micoleau, Buena Vista Social Club
Scott Zielinski and Ruey Horng Sun, Floyd Collins
Ben Stanton, Maybe Happy Ending
Justin Townsend, Death Becomes Her

Best Sound Design of a Play
Paul Arditti, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Palmer Hefferan, John Proctor is the Villain
Daniel Kluger, Good Night, And Good Luck
Nick Powell, The Hills of California
Clemence Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Sound Design of a Musical
Jonathan Deans, Buena Vista Social Club
Adam Fisher, Sunset Blvd.
Peter Hylenski, Just in Time
Peter Hylenski, Maybe Happy Ending
Dan Moses Schreier, Floyd Collins

Best Choreography
Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, Buena Vista Social Club
Joshua Bergasse, Smash
Camille A. Brown, Gypsy
Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
Jerry Mitchell, Boop! The Musical

Best Orchestrations
Marco Paguia, Buena Vista Social Club
Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber, Just in Time
Will Aronson, Maybe Happy Ending
Bruce Coughlin, Floyd Collins
David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sunset Blvd.

Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Harvey Fierstein

Regional Theatre Tony Award
The Muny — the Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis

Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Celia Keenan-Bolger

Excellence in Theatre Education Award
Gary Edwin Robinson, head of the Theatre Arts Program at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre
Great Performances
Michael Price
New 42
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts


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