The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced the nominating committee for the 2026-2027 Broadway season. The nominating committee attends all productions during the Broadway season and meets on a date designated by the administration committee to determine, by vote, the Tony Award nominees for that season.
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The 2026-2027 committee will include 65 members. Members serve a three-year term.
The new members beginning in this 2026-2027 season are:
- Bryan Andes – Educator
- Bonnie Becker – Stage manager
- Pamela Bradley – Performer
- James Bundy - Professor of drama, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale
- Keith Bunin – Playwright
- Bruce Coughlin – Orchestrator
- Migdalia Cruz – Playwright, librettist, translator, educator
- Scott Farthing – Cast album producer and former EVP of Sony Masterworks U.S. and Live Theater
- Wendall Harrington – Projection designer
- Daniel K. Isaac – Performer, playwright
- Mia Katigbak – Performer, co-founder of NAATCO
- Joyce Ketay – Theatrical agent
- Michael Kooman – Composer
- Kate Levin – Cultural assets management principal, Bloomberg Associates
- William Ivey Long – Costume designer
- Lorna Luft – Performer
- Steve Mann – Retired; account director of theater parties and Broadway clubs, Group Sales Box Office at Broadway.com
- Khady Kamara Nunez – Executive director, Perelman Performing Arts Center
- Katherine Oliver – Media and technology principal, Bloomberg Associates
- José Rivera – Playwright, director, screenwriter
- Roslyn S. Ruff – Performer
- Linda Shelton – Executive Director, the Joyce Theater Foundation
- Rona Siddiqui – Composer, lyricist
- Paul J. Smith – Stage Manager
- Pearl Sun – Performer
- Sanaz Toossi – Playwright
- Allyson Tucker – Choreographer, director, performer
- Sam Willmott – Composer, lyricist
They join returning members:
- Mark Bennett – Composer, sound designer, educator
- Rob Berman – Music director
- Jeremy Blocker – Creative director, executive producer for Audible Theater
- Brian Harlan Brooks - Director, choreographer, DEI director
- Dr. Jamie Cacciola-Price – Theatre educator, director
- Kevin Cahoon – Actor, director
- Jade King Carroll – Director, producing artistic director of Chautauqua Theater Company
- Victoria Clark – Actor, director, educator
- Will Davis – Choreographer, director
- Donald P. Gagnon, Ph.D. –Theatre Arts Professor, dramaturg
- Deeksha Gaur – Executive director, Theatre Development Fund
- Tiffani Gavin – Executive director, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
- Daniel Goldstein – Director, writer
- Joshua Harmon – Playwright
- Richard Hinds – Associate director, choreographer
- Timothy Huang – Composer, lyricist, librettist
- James Ijames – Playwright, director, educator
- Anna K. Jacobs – Composer, lyricist, librettist
- Rosalie Joseph – Casting director
- Rod Kaats – Producer, director
- Peter Kaczorowski – Lighting designer
- Glen Kelly – Amanuensis, composer
- L Morgan Lee – Actor
- Peter Marks – Former chief theater critic for the Washington Post
- Danny Mefford – Choreographer
- Jessica Paz – Sound designer
- Georgina Pazcoguin – Actress, producer, diversity advocate
- T. Oliver Reid – Actor, director, choreographer, activist, musical theater professor at Rider University
- Liam Robinson – Music director, composer, arranger, performer
- Carole Rothman – Co-founder and former artistic director of Second Stage Theater
- Rafael Sánchez – Executive artistic director of Repertorio Español
- Mark Stanley - Lighting designer
- Susan Soon He Stanton – Playwright, television writer, screenwriter
- Jeffrey Sweet – Playwright, librettist
- Alexandria Wailes – Actor, director, choreographer
- Charlotte Wilcox – Retired general manager
- BD Wong – Actor, director, playwright, author
Additional details about the 2027 Tony Awards are forthcoming. The Tony Awards are presented by the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. At the Broadway League, Kristin Caskey is chair and Jason Laks is president. At the American Theatre Wing, Kenny Leon is chair and Heather A. Hitchens is president and CEO.
