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Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Tonys

32 Nominations for Current and Past Artists

By: - Apr 30, 2013

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The 2013 Tony Award nominees were announced this morning and 32 members of the Williamstown Theatre Festival family have been nominated -  including six that will visit this summer!

Best Direction of a Play nominee Bartlett Sher will reunite his Tony-nominated creative team from Golden Boy - Michael Yeargan (Best Scenic Design of a Play), Donald Holder (Best Lighting Design of a Play), and Catherine Zuber (Best Costume Design of a Play) - for our World Premiere production of The Bridges of Madison County. Nevin Steinberg, Best Sound Design of a Musical nominee for Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, returns to WTF to design Johnny Baseball.

We're thrilled that former WTF Artistic Director Nicholas Martin has been nominated for his direction of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Nicky will direct Robert Sean Leonard and Heather Lind in Pygmalion this summer on the WTF Main Stage.

We also offer hearty congratulations to our colleagues at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company for their Outstanding Regional Theatre Tony Award. With previous awardees Williamstown Theatre Festival and American Repertory Theater, the Commonwealth is now home to three Tony-honored regional theaters.

And, of course, a giant HURRAH! for Bernard Gersten (father of WTF Artistic Director Jenny Gersten), who will receive a Lifetime Achievement in the Theater Tony Award this year.  Jenny's dad is still working - at age 90 - as the Executive Producer of Lincoln Center Theater, an achievement in and of itself.

DID YOU KNOW?

  • Christopher Durang's Best Play-nominated Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike had its first public reading as a part of WTF's Fridays@3 series in 2011.
  • Best Direction of a Musical nominee Diane Paulus (Pippin) and Best Direction of a Play nominee George C. Wolfe (Lucky Guy) both started their careers as WTF Apprentices.
  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play nominee Richard Kind is being recognized for his performance as Marcus Hoff in The Big Knife - he played that same role in WTF's 1998 production directed by Joanne Woodward.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE FESTIVAL FAMILY MEMBERS NOMINATED FOR 2013 TONY AWARDS!

Best Play
The Assembled Parties - Author, Richard Greenberg

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Nathan Lane, The Nance
David Hyde Pierce, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place

Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Judith Light, The Assembled Parties

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

Terrence Mann, Pippin

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Andrea Martin, Pippin

Best Scenic Design of a Play

John Lee Beatty, The Nance

Santo Loquasto, The Assembled Parties

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

Anna Louizos, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Scott Pask, Pippin

Best Costume Design of a Play

Ann Roth, The Nance

Best Costume Design of a Musical

William Ivey Long, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella

Best Lighting Design of a Play

Jennifer Tipton, The Testament of Mary

Japhy Weideman, The Nance

Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Kenneth Posner, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

Best Sound Design of a Play

John Gromada, The Trip to Bountiful

Best Choreography

Andy Blankenbuehler, Bring It On: The Musical

Best Direction of a Musical

Scott Ellis, The Mystery of Edwin Drood