Handicapping The Tony Nominating Committee

[Up In One]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 5:12pm

Look at this eclectic group, tough to figure out how they would lean...

2013-2014 TONY AWARDS® NOMINATING COMMITTEE
As of 4/10/2014


Douglas Aibel – Artistic Director, Vineyard Theatre
Arin Arbus – Associate Artistic Director, Theatre for a New Audience
John Arnone – Scenic designer
Ira Bernstein – Former producer/general manager/stage manager
Susan Birkenhead – Lyricist
Mark Brokaw – Director/Artistic Director, Yale Institute for Music Theatre
Ben Cameron – Program Director for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Mary Schmidt Campbell – Dean, Tisch School of the Arts/New York University
Veronica Claypool – Arts Management Consultant, Full Circle Management Group/former general manager
Douglas J. Cohen – Composer/lyricist/playwright
Ida Cole – Founding Director, Seattle Theatre Group
John Darnton – Former Cultural Editor, The New York Times
Jacqueline Z. Davis – Executive Director, The NY Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
Kent Gash – Director/Founding Director, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts New Studio on Broadway
Kathryn Grody – Actor/writer
Susan Hilferty – Costume designer
Philip Himberg – Artistic Director, Sundance Institute Theatre Program
Ann Hould-Ward – Costume designer
Julie Hughes – Former casting director
Abe Jacob – Sound designer
Stephen Karam – Playwright
Corby Kummer – Senior Editor, The Atlantic magazine
Dick Latessa – Actor
John Leguizamo – Actor/playwright
Sara Lukinson – Documentary film producer/television writer
Marsha Mason – Actor/playwright
Susan Rice – Playwright/screenwriter
Mervyn Rothstein – Retired writer and editor, The New York Times
Scott Schwartz – Director
Linda Shelton – Executive Director, Joyce Theater Foundation
Arlene Shuler – President & CEO, New York City Center
Tobie S. Stein – Director, Graduate Program in Performing Arts Management, Brooklyn College
Robert Viagas – Playbill Program Director/Editor
Carol Waaser – Retired AEA official/company and stage manager
Robin Wagner – Scenic designer
Nominating Committee

[HogansHero]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 7:01pm

In a perfect world, there would be no lean. But the committee certainly leans toward the well worn path.

[mikem]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 8:01pm

I don't know all of the people, but the only ones who I know are less than 50 years old are John Leguizamo (who is 49), Scott Schwartz, and Stephen Karam (who may be the youngest -- I think he's 33 or 34). But I think the selection process for all the big awards is dominated by older people, so the Tonys are not alone in this by any means. And it makes sense on one level -- you want people who are doing the nominating to be accomplished in their field, which usually means they're older. But it probably skews the results to some extent.

[dreaming]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 8:03pm

Do the nominators get to vote?