André Bishop, Jules Fisher, James Lapine to Receive Lifetime Achievement Tony Awards

André Bishop, Jules Fisher, and James Lapine will each receive a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre at this year’s ceremony on June 7.

Bishop, who led Lincoln Center Theater as Artistic Director from 1992 until last year, oversaw productions including Oslo, War Horse, The Light in the Piazza, and The Coast of Utopia, along with landmark revivals of South Pacific, The King and I, and Falsettos. Beyond that, he was Playwrights Horizons’ Artistic Director for ten years and as its Literary Manager for six. His many successful productions at that theater included the original productions of three Pulitzer Prize winners: The Heidi Chronicles, Driving Miss Daisy, and Sunday in the Park with George. He has received 16 “best production” Tony Awards and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2012.

Fisher, widely regarded as the gold standard of theatrical lighting design, boasts over 60 years on Broadway, nine Tony Awards, and 25 nominations. His credits span Hair, Pippin, Angels in America, and Ragtime, with work extending into film, concert touring, architectural lighting, and digital animation.

Lapine, the playwright and director behind some of Broadway’s most beloved musicals, has won three Tonys, for his librettos for Falsettos, Into the Woods, and Passion. His decades-long collaboration with Stephen Sondheim — including Sunday in the Park with George, which won the Pulitzer Prize — cemented his place as one of the theater’s essential voices. With William Finn on Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A New Brain, and Little Miss Sunshine.