2010 Tony Awards: Michael Grandage Wins 'Best Direction of a Play'

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.

BroadwayWorld Congratulates
Michael Grandage
2010 Tony Award Winner
'Best Direction of a Play'

Michael Grandage (Red) Michael Grandage is Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse in London. His work for that company has included Jude Law in Hamlet (also Broadway), Ivanov (Evening Standard and Critics Circle Award Best Director), Madame de Sade, Twelfth Night, The Chalk Garden (Evening Standard and Critics Circle Awards Best Director), Don Juan in Soho, Frost/Nixon (Tony Nomination Award for Best Director), Othello (Evening Standard and Critic’s Circle Awards for Best Director), The Wild Duck (Critic’s Circle Award Best Director), Guys and Dolls (Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production), Grand Hotel (Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production and Evening Standard Award Best Director), The Cut, After Miss Julie, Caligula (Olivier Award Best Director), Merrilly We Roll Along (Evening Standard Award Best Director), Privates On Parade, Passion Play (Evening Standard Award and Critics Circle Award for Best Director). He was also Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres from 1999 to 2005 where he directed many productions including Don Carlos (Evening Standard Award Best Director). This fall he directs Derek Jacobi as King Lear at the Donmar Warehouse in London.

'Best Direction of a Play'
2010 Tony Award Nominees

Sheryl Kaller (Next Fall)
Broadway debut. Sheryl has directed at many theaters including The New Group, Primary Stages, A.C.T., New York Stage and Film (8 seasons), Philadelphia Theater Company, American Music Theater Project, The York, EST, Rubicon, National Theater of the Deaf and Naked Angels. Co-founder and Artistic Director of Two Island Productions. She has developed many new plays with writers including Christopher Durang, Peter Melnick, ReGina Taylor, Dick Beebe, Michele Brourman, Amanda McBroom, Jeannine Dominy and Alan Menken. Thanks to Geoffrey and the NF family for this amazing journey. Greatest joys: Scott, Tobey and Tess. For Tobey and Jerry.

Kenny Leon (Fences)
Leon’s Broadway work includes the 2004 Tony-winning revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. He also directed the Emmy-nominated “A Raisin in the Sun” film, which aired on ABC in 2008 and received Directors Guild, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Television Movie. Other directorial credits include the Tony-nominated productions of August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf, Toni Morrison’s opera Margaret Garner and August Wilson’s Century Cycle at the Kennedy Center, for which he was artistic director. Leon has directed extensively around the country, including Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, Boston’s Huntington Theatre, the Arena Stage, Center Theatre Group and The Public Theater. Leon is the former artistic director of ALLIANCE THEATRE, where he produced the premieres of Disney’s Aida, Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky and Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Leon is artistic director of True Colors Theatre Company and a principal of KL Productions.

Gregory Mosher (A View from the Bridge)
Gregory has produced or directed nearly 200 plays at the Goodman and Lincoln Center theatres, on Broadway and in London's West End. His long association with David Mamet included twenty-three plays, including American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross, and Speed-the-Plow. He has worked with many major playwrights, often on new work, including Samuel Beckett, Leonard Bernstein, John Guare, Richard Nelson, David Rabe and Tennessee Williams. His association with Mr. Miller began in 1985, when Mosher invited him to be part of the creative team at Lincoln Center Theatre; A View from the Bridge will be the third play of Miller's he has directed. Mosher has won every major American theatre award, including two Tony's.