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
Multiple nominations
Female winners
Only 6 women have won this award:
- Garry Hynes – The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1998)
- Mary Zimmerman – Metamorphoses (2002)
- Anna D. Shapiro – August: Osage County (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
