2006-2007 Tony Awards Nominating Committee Announced

Actress Joanna Gleason, playwright David Henry Hwang, and Tom Viola, president of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, are among the new additions to the Tony Awards Nominating Committee. Members of the committee attends all productions during the Broadway season and vote on the Tony Award nominees for that season. The 2006-2007 Tony Awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, June 10 at Radio City Music Hall.

A full list of this season’s nominating committee follows; two asterisks denote new members starting three-year terms.

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Victoria Bailey, executive director, Theatre Development Fund
**Joe Benincasa, executive director, The Actors’ Fund of America

Susan Birkenhead, lyricist
Edward Burbridge, scenic designer
**Robert Callely, theater executive
**Ben Cameron, program director for the arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Betty Corwin, retired director of Theatre on Film and Tape archive, Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts
**John Dias, producer, dramaturg, educator
Mercedes Ellington, choreographer

**Sue Frost, producer/company manager

**Joanna Gleason, actor
**David Henry Hwang, playwright

Andrew Jackness, scenic designer
**Betty Jacobs, script consultant and theater historian

Robert Kamlot, retired general manager
Todd London, artistic director, New Dramatists
Brian Stokes Mitchell, actor
Jon Nakagawa, producer of Contemporary Programming, Lincoln Center
Lynn Nottage, playwright
Gilbert Parker, retired senior vice president of the William Morris Agency
Jonathan Reynolds, playwright
**Steven Suskin, theater author

Jac Venza, retired executive, WNET
**Tom Viola, president, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Franklin Weissberg, retired judge of the New York State Court of Claims