The
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual cer ...
s for Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical recognize excellence in
sound design
Sound design is the art and practice of creating sound tracks for a variety of needs. It involves specifying, acquiring or creating auditory elements using audio production techniques and tools. It is employed in a variety of disciplines including ...
for
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), 130 of the 144 extant and extinct Broadway venues use (used) the spelling ''Th ...
. They were first given in the 2007–2008 season. In 2014, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced that starting with the 2014–2015 season the Tony Awards for Best Sound Design of a Play and of a Musical would be eliminated. In 2017, the committee announced that the two Sound Design awards would again be presented starting in the 2017–2018 season.
Best Sound Design of a Play
2000s
2010s
2020s
Best Sound Design of a Musical
2000s
2010s
2020s
Award records
Multiple wins
; 2 Wins
;*Gareth Fry
;*Brian Ronan
Multiple nominations
; 8 Nominations
*
Peter Hylenski
Peter Hylenski (born 1975 or 1976) is an American stage sound designer. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Sound Design eight times, holding the record for most nominations in the category, and has won once, at the 74th Tony Awar ...
; 5 Nominations
* Acme Sound Partners
* Scott Lehrer
*
Dan Moses Schreier
Dan Moses Schreier is an American composer and sound designer. He is best known for his theatrical music work, on Broadway and elsewhere.
Schreier is from Detroit, and lives in New York City. He studied music at the University of Michigan and ...
; 4 Nominations
* Paul Arditti
* Simon Baker
* Adam Cork
* Ian Dickinson
; 3 Nominations
* Steve Canyon Kennedy
*
Gareth Owen
* Nevin Steinberg
; 2 Nominations
* Jonathan Deans
* Kai Harada
* Daniel Kluger
* Drew Levy
* Nick Powell
* Leon Rothenberg
Historic nominations & wins
2011: Acme Sound Partners and Cricket S. Myers – ''
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
''Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo'' is a play by Rajiv Joseph. The show is about "a tiger that haunts the streets of present-day Baghdad seeking the meaning of life. As he witnesses the puzzling absurdities of war, the tiger encounters Americans ...
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* Cricket S. Myers is the first woman to receive a Tony nomination for Sound Design of a Play.
2019: Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz – ''
Hadestown
''Hadestown'' is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell. It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial underworl ...
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* Jessica Paz is the first woman to receive a Tony nomination for Sound Design of a Musical and the first woman to win a Tony Award for Sound Design.
See also
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual cer ...
References
External links
Tony Awards official website
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Tony Awards
Theatrical sound production
Awards established in 2008
2008 establishments in the United States