2010 Tony Awards: Christine Jones Wins 'Best Scenic Design of a Musical'

The American Theatre Wing's 64th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony"® Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 13, 2010 and broadcast on the CBS Television Network. For more information visit tonyawards.com.

Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 64th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony"® Awards were announced on May 4, 2010 by Broadway Star Lea Michele and Tony Award Nominee Jeff Daniels.

The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards are bestowed annually on theatre professionals for distinguished achievement. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.

To view the complete list of 2010 Tony Award winners, click here.

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Christine Jones
2010 Tony Award Winner
'Wins 'Best Scenic Design of a Musical'

Christine Jones (American Idiot) Christine Jones earned a Tony nomination for Spring Awakening, directed by Michael Mayer, and also designed the Broadway production of The Green Bird, directed by Julie Taymor. Her Off-Broadway credits include Coraline, music by Stephin Merritt, and The Book of Longing, by Leonard Cohen with music by Philip Glass. Jones teaches at NYU and is the artistic director of Theatre for One, a space designed for one performer and one audience member, which can be seen at theatreforone.com.

'Best Scenic Design of a Musical'
2010 Tony Award Nominees

Marina Draghici (Fela!)
Marina was born in Bucharest, Romania. She emigrated to the United States where she graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 1988. Prior to FELA! Marina has collaborated with Bill T. Jones on Dream on a Monkey Mountain (Guthrie Theatre) and 24 Images Secondes (Lyons Opera). Her work has been seen at the Paris National Opera, Zurich Opera, Grand Theatre de Bordeaux, Opera de Nice, NYCO, Edinburgh Festival, Glimmerglass Opera, National Theatre of Prague, Public Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club and Lincoln Center among many other venues in the US and abroad. Awards: Lucille Lortel, Obie and numerous nominations. Film/TV: The Grey Zone, Heights, Dexter,  Twelve and Holding, S.O.P., Rage, The Cake Eaters, Precious: based on Sapphire's novel Push.

Derek McLane (Ragtime)
Broadway: 33 Variations (2009 Tony Award, Best Scenic Design); The Pajama Game (2006 Tony Award, Best Revival); Grease; The Threepenny Opera; Little Women; I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award, Best Play); Barefoot in the Park; Lestat; The Women; Present Laughter; London Assurance; Holiday; Honour; Summer and Smoke; The Three Sisters. Off-Broadway: 10 Million Miles, Things We Want, 2000 Years, The Scene, The Voysey Inheritance, Two Trains Running, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Macbeth (Shakespeare in the Park), Hurlyburly, Abigail’s Party, Modern Orthodox, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aunt Dan and Lemon, East is East, suburbia, Saturday Night. Mr. McLane designed the entire Sondheim Celebration at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Awards: 1997 and 2004 OBIE Awards for Sustained Excellence in Scenic Design. Drama Logue Award, 1997 for Harmony at La Jolla Playhouse. Michael Merritt Award in Chicago, 2003. Many Drama Desk Nominations. 2004, 2005, 2007 Lucille Lortel Awards. 2006 Tony Award Nomination.

Tim Shortall (La Cage aux Folles)
Tim has an extensive list of credits in London and the West End. His most recent designs are La Cage aux Folles at The Playhouse Theatre, Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory – which transfers to the West End this spring, The Overwhelming directed by Max Stafford-Clarke at the Royal National Theatre and the Roundabout NYC, The Philanthropist directed by David Grindley with Simon Russell Beale at the Donmar Warehouse and Matthew Broderick at the Roundabout NYC, Awake and Sing with Stockard Channing directed by Michael Attenborough at the Almeida, See How They Run  directed by Douglas Hodge, and for Terry Johnson – Rookery Nook  at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Whipping It Up and Elton John's Glasses. Previous work includes Telstar, Body and Soul, Murder By Misadventure, The Cooks Tour, the costumes for The Big Knife, The King of Hearts for Max Stafford-Clarke, Excuses  for David Grindley, Haunted, Twilight of the Golds, Eugene Onegin, What You Get And What You Expect, The Amen Corner, 900 Oneonta at the Old Vic and Disappeared at the Royal Court.

Tim has designed for most of the major regional theatres in the UK and highlights include – for Rupert Goold Privates On Parade, The Colonel Bird and Broken Glass, Single Spies and Having A Ball for David Grindley, and Roots (Barclays TMA Award nomination).

Designs for dance include Private City/Track and Field (Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet), Sonata In Time (Scottish Ballet) and Rhyme Nor Reason and Party Game (Norwegian National Ballet), The Nightingale (Dutch National Ballet) and Uncertain Steps (Introdans Holland and Ontario Ballet Theatre).

Television work includes "20th Century Blues: a tribute to Noel Coward with Robbie Williams and Elton John" (BBC) and "The Nightingale" (NOS Dutch TV) which was the Netherlands' entry in the Prix Italia and won the RAI Prize.