Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play has been given since 1960. Before 1960 there was only one award for both play direction and musical direction, then in 1960 the award was split into two categories: Dramatic and Musical. In 1976 the Dramatic category was renamed to Play. For pre-1960 direction awards please reference Tony Award for Best Director.

Winners and nominees

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins

6 Wins

• Mike Nichols

3 Wins

• Jerry Zaks

2 Wins

• Peter Brook
• Stephen Daldry
• John Dexter
• Marianne Elliott
• Gerald Gutierrez
• Peter Hall
• Sam Mendes
• Jack O'Brien
• Gene Saks

Multiple nominations

10 Nominations

• Mike Nichols

8 Nominations

• Peter Hall
• Daniel J. Sullivan

6 Nominations

• George C. Wolfe

5 Nominations

• Joe Mantello
• Marshall W. Mason
• Lloyd Richards
• Alan Schneider
• Bartlett Sher
• Matthew Warchus

4 Nominations

• Michael Blakemore
• Kenny Leon
• David Leveaux
• Gregory Mosher
• Jack O'Brien
• Gene Saks

3 Nominations

• Stephen Daldry
• Gordon Davidson
• Howard Davies
• John Dexter
• Marianne Elliott
• Michael Grandage
• Gerald Gutierrez
• Sam Mendes
• Trevor Nunn
• José Quintero
• Jerry Zaks

2 Nominations

• Joseph Anthony
• A. J. Antoon
• Melvin Bernhardt
• Peter Brook
• Arvin Brown
• John Caird
• Scott Ellis
• Richard Eyre
• Robert Falls
• Athol Fugard
• John Gielgud
• Rupert Goold
• Ulu Grosbard
• Tyrone Guthrie
• Joseph Hardy
• Ivo van Hove
• Doug Hughes
• Garry Hynes
• Nicholas Hytner
• Pam MacKinnon
• Jamie Lloyd
• Patrick Marber
• Robert Moore
• Arthur Penn
• Stephen Porter
• Ellis Rabb
• Anna D. Shapiro
• John Tiffany
• Clifford Williams
• Noel Willman

Female winners

Only 6 women have won this award:

• Garry Hynes – The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1998)
• Mary Zimmerman – Metamorphoses (2002)
• Anna D. Shapiro – ' (2008)
• Pam MacKinnon – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? revival (2013)
• Marianne Elliott – War Horse (2011) (shared with Tom Morris) and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2015), making her the only woman to win this award more than once
• Rebecca Taichman – Indecent (2017)

See also

• Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play
• Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director
• List of Tony Award-nominated productions

References

External links

• Tony Award for Direction of a Play ibdb
• Tony Awards official site