2010 Tony Awards: Terry Johnson Wins 'Best Direction 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.

BroadwayWorld Congratulates
Terry Johnson
2010 Tony Award Winner
'Best Direction of a Musical'

Terry Johnson (La Cage aux Folles) Terry Johnson is a multi-award winning playwright and director and is Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre. He has been honored with nine major British Theatre awards, including two Olivier Awards and two Evening Standard Theatre Awards. In recent years, he has had 12 productions running in London's West End: La Cage aux Folles, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Rain Man, Whipping It Up, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hitchcock Blonde, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Graduate, Dead Funny, Hysteria, Elton John's Glasses and The Memory of Water. He has worked with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, directing John Malkovich in The Libertine (nominated for five Jeff Awards, including Best Production) and Lost Land, both plays by Stephen Jeffries. He has written and directed for international television, most recently "The Man Who Lost His Head" for ITV and "Not Only But Always" for Channel Four, which won five International Award nominations, Best Film at Banff, and a BAFTA for Rhys Ifans. He wrote and directed "‘Cor Blimey!" for ITV.

'Best Direction of a Musical'
2010 Tony Award Nominees

Christopher Ashley (Memphis)
Broadway credits include: Xanadu, All Shook Up, The Rocky Horror Show (Tony Award nomination), Voices in the Dark. Other: Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along for the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration (Helen Hayes Award). He was recently appointed Artistic Director of the La Jolla Playhouse.

Marcia Milgrom Dodge (Ragtime)
Marcia Milgrom Dodge made her Broadway directing and choreographing debut with Ragtime after its run at the Kennedy Center in the Spring of 2009. Her work has been seen throughout the United States, in Canada, Great Britain and South Korea. Other projects include: Seussical for Theatreworks-USA (Off-Broadway & National Tour, Lucille Lortel Award Nominations for Outstanding Choreography & Revival); Off-Broadway’s Cookin', Radio Gals, Closer Than Ever, Romance In Hard Times (NYSF),  The Loman Family Picnic (MTC) and The Music Man at New York City Opera. For The Kennedy Center she also directed Tell Me On A Sunday (starring Alice Ripley) and choreographed Ken Ludwig's Sullivan & Gilbert. At Arena Stage Marcia choreographed Of Thee I Sing (Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography), Merrily We Roll Along and On the Town. Marcia has directed many shows at Bay Street Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Riverside Theatre, Lyric Stage, Maltz-Jupiter, Pittsburgh Public, Goodman Theatre, Goodspeed, Huntington Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and The Cape Playhouse. She has collaborated on new musicals and plays with Julie Andrews (Simeon's Gift), Rupert Holmes (Thumbs!), Jeffrey Hatcher (One Foot On The Floor), Robert Falls (Book of The Night and Riverview), William Bolcom (Casino Paradise) and Des McAnuff (Elmer Gantry). Marcia and her husband Anthony Dodge have written the books for two musicals: Look Homeward Honky Tonk Angel (with songs by Larry Gatlin) and Hats!. Their first play was the Edgar Award nominated Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror. Marcia is a proud board member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society. For more, please visit www.marciamilgromdodge.com.

Bill T. Jones (Fela!)
Bill T. Jones is a 2007 Tony® Award winner and the recipient of the 2007 Obie Award and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation CALLAWAY Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening, the recipient of the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship, the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven, the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement, the prestigious 2005 Wexner Prize, and the Aaron Davis Hall Harlem Renaissance Award. He is also a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient in 1994, named one of America’s Irreplaceable Dance Treasures by the Dance Heritage Coalition in 2000, and was awarded The 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for which recipients are considered trailblazers who have redefined their art and reshaped the cultural landscape. He began his dance training at the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY), where he studied classical ballet and modern dance. After living in Amsterdam, Mr. Jones returned to SUNY, where he became co-founder of the American Dance Asylum in 1973. Before forming Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982, Mr. Jones choreographed and performed nationally and internationally as a soloist and duet company with his late partner, Arnie Zane.

In addition to creating more than 100 works for his own company, Mr. Jones has received many commissions to create dances for modern and ballet companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Axis Dance Company, Boston Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Berkshire Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet and Diversions Dance Company, and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s The Flight Project. He has also received numerous commissions to create new works for his own company, including premieres for the American Dance Festival, the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music and for St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra. In 1995, Mr. Jones directed and performed in a collaborative work with Toni Morrison and Max Roach, Degga, commissioned by Lincoln Center’s Serious Fun Festival and with Jessye Norman, How! Do! We! Do! which premiered at New York’s City Center in 1999 as part of Lincoln Center’s Great Performers New Visions series. The Breathing Show, Mr. Jones’ evening long solo, toured for three years, and his second solo show, As I Was Saying…, toured for more than two. He has directed and choreographed for theatre and opera, most recently choreographing Off-Broadway for the New York Theatre Workshop’s production of The Seven for which he was awarded the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Choreography and for the Broadway musical Spring Awakening.

Mr. Jones has received honorary doctorates from the Art Institute of Chicago, Bard College, Columbia College, the Juilliard School, Swarthmore College and Yales as well as the SUNY Binghamton Distinguished Alumni Award.