Theater News

2005-2006 Tony Awards Committee Members Named

New York City
The Tony Awards nominating committee for the 2005-2006 Broadway season has been announced. The members of the committee attend all productions that open during the season and select the Tony Award nominees. The committee for the new season is as follows:

Victoria Bailey, executive director, Theatre Development Fund
Susan Birkenhead, lyricist
Stephen Bogardus, actor
Edward Burbridge, scenic designer
Ben Cameron, executive director, Theatre Communications Group
Kristen Childs, musical theater writer
Betty Corwin, retired director of TOFT, Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts
Jacqueline Z. Davis, executive director, Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts
Mercedes Ellington, choreographer
Rob Fisher, musical director
Nancy Ford, composer
Andrew Jackness, scenic designer
Geoffrey Johnson, casting director
Robert Kamlot, retired general manager
Todd London, artistic director, New Dramatists
Brian Stokes Mitchell, actor
Jon Nakagawa, Producer of Contemporary Programming, Lincoln Center
Enid Nemy, New York Times staff writer
Peter Neufeld, former general manager
Lynn Nottage, playwright
Sarah Jessica Parker, actor
Gilbert Parker, retired senior vice president of the William Morris agency
Jonathan Reynolds, playwright
Marc Shaiman, composer/lyricist
William Tynan, writer/editor, Time Magazine
Jac Venza, retired executive, WNET
Franklin Weissberg, retired judge of the New York State Court of Claims