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2008 Tony Award Nominators Chosen

Roger Rees
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Roger Rees
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)

The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today the Nominating Committee for the 2007-2008 Broadway season. The Tony Awards are presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing.

The Nominating Committee attends all productions during the Broadway season, and meets on the date designated by the Administration Committee to determine, by vote, the Tony Award nominees for that season. The new committee includes the following members (a ** denotes a new member), all of whom serve a three-year term.

Joe Benincasa – President of The Actor’s Fund of America

Robert Callely – Theatre Executive

Betty Corwin – Retired Director of the Lincoln Center Library of Theatre on Film & Tape
**Jacqueline Z. Davis – Executive Director of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
John Dias – Producer, Dramaturg, Educator
**Michael D. Dinwiddie – Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU
**Teresa Eyring – Executive Director of the Theatre Communications Group

Sue Frost – Producer
Joanna Gleason – Actor
Andrew Jackness – Scenic Designer
Betty Jacobs – Script Consultant/Theater Historian
**Geoffrey Johnson – Retired Casting Director

Robert Kamlot – Retired General Manager
**Michael Kantor – Director, Producer, Writer
**Howard Marren – Composer

**Laurence Maslon – Associate Arts Professor, Graduate Acting Program – Tisch School

Brian Stokes Mitchell – Actor
Phyllis Newman – Actor

Lynn Nottage – Playwright
Gilbert Parker – Retired Senior-Vice President of the William Morris Agency
**Roger Rees – Actor, Director, Playwright, Lecturer, Administrator
Jonathan Reynolds – Playwright & Screenwriter
**Donald Saddler – Choreographer
Steven Suskin – Author
Tom Viola – President, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Franklin Weissberg – Retired Judge of the New York State Court of Claims
**Kimberlee Wertz – Music Contractor