Nikiya Mathis, MAYBE HAPPY ENDING, & More Earn 2025 Hewes Design Awards

The Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee has revealed the 2025 Henry Hewes Design Awards Honorees who will be recognized at the 61st annual ceremony on October 20 in New York. “We are delighted to announce the 2025 Henry Hewes Design Awards honorees,” said Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, chairman of the committee. “We continue to recognize the outstanding contribution designers make to the creative process in all theater productions and we congratulate the 2025 honorees for their excellent work.” Honors for the 2024–25 season were earned by 14 artists for their work on and Off Broadway. Scenic designer Jason Sherwood (Bad Kreyòl, Signature Theatre Company), Costume Designer Qween Jean (Cats: “The Jellicle Ball”, Perelman PAC/NYC), lighting designer Adam Honoré (Cats: “The Jellicle Ball”, Perelman PAC/NYC), sound designer Rena Anakwe (The Swamp Dwellers, Theatre for a New Audience), media designer Finn Ross (Boop!, Broadway), and puppetry designer Greg Corbino (Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!, Soho Rep) will be honored with 2025 Henry Hewes Design Awards. The Hewes Committee also voted two Special Citations during its deliberations. The Broadway design team of Maybe Happy Ending receives Special Citations for Excellence in Design. These Special Citation honorees are Dane Laffrey, Clint Ramos, Ben Stanton, Peter Hylenski, George Reeve, Craig Franklin Miller, and Suki Tsujimoto. Designer Nikiya Mathis will be honored with a Special Citation for Individual Achievement in Design for her extraordinary contributions to hair and wig design in Cats: “The Jellicle Ball”, Liberation, and Wine in the Wilderness during the 2024-25 theater season. Twelve of the fourteen 2025 honorees are receiving their first award from the Hewes committee. For the 2025 honors, 107 theater artists were nominated for outstanding artistry in 54 productions presented during the 2024-25 New York theater season on, Off, and Off-Off Broadway. (A complete list of 2025 nominees follows this awards announcement. Please share widely.) These annual awards honor designers for work in venues on Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway, recognizing the categories of Scenic Design, Costume Design, Lighting Design, Sound Design, Media Design, and Notable Effects. All nominated designs must have originated in United States productions. The Hewes Awards Committee annually considers approximately 200 productions when making its nominations. Hair and wig designer Nikiya Mathis led all designers with three nominations in the Notable Effects category. Thirteen designers received two nominations for their work. Thirty productions received multiple nominations, with Broadway’s Maybe Happy Ending leading the way at seven nominations. Boop! on Broadway received six nominations and Bowl EP at Off Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre received five nominations. Four productions each received four nominations. Eleven productions received three nominations and 11 other productions each received two nominations. The HHDA Committee named honorees in six standard categories: Scenic Design, Costume Design, Lighting Design, Sound Design, Media Design, and Notable Effects. As of the 2025 awards, the Committee has bestowed 357 honors on 243 artists representing 303 productions. (These numbers do not include the Ming Cho Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design.) Known as the Maharam Awards at their inception in 1965, the Hewes Awards were later renamed the American Theatre Wing Design Awards in honor of the Wing’s generous sponsorship. In 1999, they became the Henry Hewes Design Awards in honor of noted critic Henry Hewes, who created the awards and served as a board member of the American Theatre Wing until his death in 2006 at age 89. The Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee includes theater critics Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, chair; David Barbour; David Cote; Naveen Kumar; Brittani Samuel; Helen Shaw; and Martha Wade Steketee. The awards are sponsored by the Henry Hewes Foundation for the Theater Arts. 2025 Henry Hewes DESIGN AWARDS HONOREES Scenic Design Jason Sherwood (Bad Kreyòl, Signature Theatre Company) Costume Design Qween Jean (Cats: “The Jellicle Ball”, Perelman PAC/NYC) Lighting Design Adam Honoré (Cats: “The Jellicle Ball”, Perelman PAC/NYC) Sound Design Rena Anakwe (The Swamp Dwellers, Theatre for a New Audience) Media Design Finn Ross (Boop!, Broadway) Notable Effects Greg Corbino (Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!, Soho Rep) (Puppetry Design) Special Citation for Individual Achievement in Design Nikiya Mathis, for the range and excellence of her work in hair and wig design on three distinct productions during the 2024-25 New York theater season. Special Citation for Excellence in Design Maybe Happy Ending (Broadway) Dane Laffrey (scenic and additional video), Clint Ramos (costumes), Ben Stanton (lighting), Peter Hylenski (sound), George Reeve (video), Craig Franklin Miller (hair and wig design), Suki Tsujimoto (makeup design) 2025 Henry Hewes DESIGN AWARDS NOMINEES (2025 Honorees in bold) SCENIC DESIGNER SHOW Adam Koch and Steven Royal A Wonderful World Adam Rigg The Blood Quilt Adam Rigg and Anton Volovsek Bowl EP Alexander Shishkin Seagull: A True Story Asfoon Pajoufar Five Models in Ruins, 1981 Clinton Chadick Music City Dane Laffrey Maybe Happy Ending David Rockwell Boop! Derek McLane Just in Time dots Floyd Collins Frank J. Oliva Danger and Opportunity Gwendolyn Warnock and Kirjan Waage Dead as a Dodo Jason Ardizzone-West The Swamp Dwellers Jason Sherwood Bad Kreyòl Louisa Thompson Grief Camp Matt Saunders Walden Mimi Lien and Tatiana Kahvegian Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! Normandy Sherwood Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods Paul Steinberg The Antiquities Rachel Hauck Swept Away Scott Pask Good Night, and Good Luck Simon Cleveland The Trojans Costume Designer SHOW Ashley Soliman The Trojans Brenda Abbandandolo Good Night, and Good Luck Brenda Abbandandolo The Antiquities Catherine Zuber Just in Time Catherine Zuber and AC Gottlieb Henry IV Christopher Ford The Beastiary Clint Ramos Maybe Happy Ending Cole McCarthy The Last Bimbo in the Universe Dede Ayite Wine in the Wilderness DeShon Elem Bowl EP Greg Corbino Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! Gregg Barnes Boop! Haydee Zelideth The beautiful land i seek Karl Ruckdeschel Twelfth Night Kaye Voyce The Welkin Mariko Ohigahsi Sumo Paul Tazewell Death Becomes Her Qween Jean Cats: "The Jellicle Ball" Qween Jean Liberation Sarah Cubbage The Big Gay Jamboree Toni-Leslie James A Wonderful World Toni-Leslie James Gypsy Vasilija Zivanic Five Models in Ruins, 1981 LIGHTING DESIGNER SHOW Adam Honoré Cats: "The Jellicle Ball" Adam Honoré Walden Alan C. Edwards Bad Kreyòl Ben Stanton Maybe Happy Ending Christopher Annas-Lee The Trojans Cory Pattak A Wonderful World Daphne Agosin Dead as a Dodo David Zeffren Twelfth Night Heather Gilbert Good Night, and Good Luck Isabella Byrd Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes and Creditors Isabella Byrd Grief Camp Japhy Weideman Ghosts Jen Schriever Glengarry Glen Ross Justin Townsend Just in Time Justin Townsend Death Becomes Her Kate McGee Bowl EP Kevin Adams Swept Away Natasha Katz John Proctor Is the Villain Paul Whitaker Sumo Philip S. Rosenberg Boop! Scott Zielinski Floyd Collins Seth Reiser The Swamp Dwellers Stacey Derosier Grangeville Stacey Derosier Danger and Opportunity Tyler Micoleau The Antiquities NOTABLE EFFECTS DESIGNER SHOW Alberto “Albee” Alvarado, hair and wig design Sumo Amanda Villalobos, puppetry design Becoming Eve Charles G. LaPointe, hair and wig design; Joe Dulude II, makeup design Death Becomes Her Craig Franklin Miller, hair and wig design Maybe Happy Ending Greg Corbino, puppetry design Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! Kirjan Waage, puppetry design Dead as a Dodo Nikiya Mathis, hair and wig design Cats: "The Jellicle Ball" Nikiya Mathis, hair and wig design Liberation Nikiya Mathis, hair and wig design Wine in the Wilderness Sabana Majeed, hair and wig design; Michael Clifton, makeup design Boop! Simple Mischief Studio, puppetry design Small Acts of Daring Invention Suki Tsujimoto, makeup design Maybe Happy Ending The Huber Marionettes, puppetry design Boop! Tom Lee, puppetry design See What I Wanna See SOUND DESIGNER SHOW Bill Toles Wine in the Wilderness Bray Poor Grief Camp Christopher Darbassie The Antiquities Christopher Darbassie Grangeville Cody Spencer The Last Five Years Dan Moses Schreier Floyd Collins Fan Zhang Good Bones John Shivers Swept Away Johnny Gasper Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods Jonathan Deans Redwood Matt Otto All of Me Nevin Steinberg We Are Your Robots Palmer Hefferan John Proctor Is the Villain Paul Carbonara Twelfth Night Peter Hylenski Maybe Happy Ending Peter Hylenski Just in Time Rena Anakwe The Swamp Dwellers Ryan Gamblin Bowl EP Scott Lehrer Gypsy Will Watt The Trojans MEDIA DESIGNER SHOW Alex Basco Koch The Jonathan Larson Project David Bengali Good Night, and Good Luck David Bengali Eureka Day Finn Ross Boop! George Reeve and Dane Laffrey Maybe Happy Ending Hana S. Kim Redwood Hana S. Kim Real Women Have Curves Jake Barton McNeal Jesse Garrison The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux] Jessica Vitrani Sex Variants of 1941 Katherine Freer We Are Your Robots Ruey Horng Sun Floyd Collins Zavier Taylor Bowl EP

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