Tony Awards Announces 2007/8 Nominating Committee

The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today the Nominating Committee for the 2007-2008 Broadway season.  The Tony Awards are presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing. 

The Nominating Committee attends all productions during the Broadway season, and meets on the date designated by the Administration Committee to determine, by vote, the Tony Award nominees for that season.  The new committee includes:

Joe Benincasa – President of The Actor's Fund of America
Robert Callely – Theatre Executive
Betty Corwin – Retired Director of the Lincoln Center Library of Theatre on Film & Tape
**Jacqueline Z. Davis – Executive Director of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
John Dias – Producer, Dramaturg, Educator
**Michael D. Dinwiddie – Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU
**Teresa Eyring – Executive Director of the Theatre Communications Group
Sue Frost – Producer
Joanna Gleason – Actor
Andrew Jackness – Scenic Designer
Betty Jacobs – Script Consultant/Theatre Historian
**Geoffrey Johnson – Retired Casting Director
Robert Kamlot – Retired General Manager
**Michael Kantor – Director, Producer, Writer
**Howard Marren – Composer
**Laurence Maslon – Associate Arts Professor, Graduate Acting Program - Tisch School
Brian Stokes Mitchell – Actor
Phyllis Newman – Actor
Lynn Nottage – Playwright
Gilbert Parker – Retired Senior-Vice President of the William Morris Agency
**Roger Rees – Actor, Director, Playwright, Lecturer, Administrator
Jonathan Reynolds – Playwright & Screenwriter
**Donald Saddler – Choreographer
Steven Suskin – Theatre Author
Tom Viola – President, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Franklin Weissberg – Retired Judge of the New York State Court of Claims
**Kimberlee Wertz – Music Contractor

 **New Committee Members Beginning a Three-Year Term

The Tonys are presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing. At the League, Gerald Schoenfeld is Chairman and Charlotte St. Martin is Executive Director. At the Wing, Sondra Gilman is Chairman, Doug Leeds is President and Howard Sherman is Executive Director. For Tony Award Productions, Elizabeth I. McCann is Managing Producer and Joey Parnes is Coordinating Producer.

Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss/White Cherry Entertainment are Executive Producers of the 2007 Tony Awards.  Mr. Weiss will also served as Director of the 2007 Tony Awards. 

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