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Glenn Weiss Wins His Fifth Directors Guild Award for Broadway's Tony Awards

The DGAs were presented on January 25.

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Tony Awards director Glenn Weiss is the recipient of five Directors Guild Awards for his work on the annual broadcast.
Tony Awards director Glenn Weiss is the recipient of five Directors Guild Awards for his work on the annual broadcast.
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Glenn Weiss has won his fifth Directors Guild Award in the category of Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports-Specials for his work on the 2013 Tony Awards. The awards were presented in a ceremony on Saturday, January 25.

Weiss earned previous nominations in 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2008, for the 55th, 56th, 59th, 60th, and 62nd Annual Tony Awards, and won the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety in 2007, 2010, 2011, and 2012 for the 61st, 64th, 65th, and 66th Annual Tony Awards.

For the 2013 Tonys, Weiss' associate directors included Ken Diego, Robin Abrams, Stefani Cohen, and Ricky Kirshner, with a stage-management team made up of Garry Hood, Phyllis Digilio-Kent, Peter Epstein, Andrew Feigin, Lynn Finkel, Doug Fogel, Jeffry Gitter, Arthur Lewis, Jeffrey M. Markowitz, Joey Meade, Seth Mellman, Tony Mirante, Cyndi Owgang, Jeff Pearl, Elise Reaves, and Lauren Class Schneider.

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