Tony Award for Best Sound Design

The Tony Awards for Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical recognize excellence in sound design for Broadway theatre. They were first given in the 2007–2008 season.^[1] 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.^[2] In 2017, the committee announced that the two Sound Design awards would again be presented starting in the 2017–2018 season.^[3]

Best Sound Design of a Play

2000s

Year	Production	Nominees
2008 (62nd) ^[4]
	The 39 Steps	Mic Pool
	Boeing-Boeing	Simon Baker
	Macbeth	Adam Cork
	Rock 'n' Roll	Ian Dickinson
2009 (63rd) ^[5]
	Equus	Gregory Clarke
	Exit the King	Russell Goldsmith
	Joe Turner's Come and Gone	Scott Lehrer and Leon Rothenberg
	Mary Stuart	Paul Arditti

2010s

Year	Production	Nominees
2010 (64th) ^[6]
	Red	Adam Cork
	Enron	Adam Cork
	Fences	Acme Sound Partners
	A View from the Bridge	Scott Lehrer
2011 (65th) ^[7]
	War Horse	Christopher Shutt
	Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo	Acme Sound Partners and Cricket S. Myers
	Brief Encounter	Simon Baker
	Jerusalem	Ian Dickinson
2012 (66th) ^[8]
	Peter and the Starcatcher	Darron L. West
	Death of a Salesman	Scott Lehrer
	End of the Rainbow	Gareth Owen
	'One Man, Two Guvnors	Paul Arditti
2013 (67th) ^[9]
	The Nance	Leon Rothenberg
	Golden Boy	Peter John Still and Marc Salzberg
	The Testament of Mary	Mel Mercier
	The Trip to Bountiful	John Gromada
2014 (68th) ^[10]
	Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill	Steve Canyon Kennedy
	Act One	Dan Moses Schreier
	The Cripple of Inishmaan	Alex Baranowski
	Machinal	Matt Tierney
2017 (71st)
	The Encounter	Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin
2018 (72nd) ^[11]
	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child	Gareth Fry
	Angels in America	Ian Dickinson
	The Iceman Cometh	Dan Moses Schreier
	1984	Tom Gibbons
	Travesties	Adam Cork
2019 (73rd) ^[12]
	Choir Boy	Fitz Patton
	The Ferryman	Nick Powell
	Ink	Adam Cork
	Network	Eric Sleichim
	To Kill a Mockingbird	Scott Lehrer

2020s

Year	Production	Nominees
2020 (74th)
	A Christmas Carol	Simon Baker
	The Inheritance	Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid
	Sea Wall/A Life	Daniel Kluger
	Slave Play	Lindsay Jones
	The Sound Inside	Daniel Kluger
2022 (75th) ^[13]
	Dana H.	Mikhail Fiksel
	for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf	Justin Ellington
	The Lehman Trilogy	Dominic Bilkey and Nick Powell
	Macbeth	Mikaal Sulaiman
	The Skin of Our Teeth	Palmer Hefferan
2023 (76th) ^[14]
	Life of Pi	Carolyn Downing
	Ain't No Mo'	Jonathan Deans and Taylor J. Williams
	A Christmas Carol	Joshua D. Reid
	A Doll's House	Ben Ringham and Max Ringham
	Prima Facie

Best Sound Design of a Musical

2000s

Year	Production	Nominees
2008 (62nd) ^[15]
	South Pacific	Scott Lehrer
	Gypsy	Dan Moses Schreier
	In the Heights	Acme Sound Partners
	Sunday in the Park with George	Sebastian Frost
2009 (63rd) ^[16]
	Billy Elliot the Musical	Paul Arditti
	Hair	Acme Sound Partners
	Next to Normal	Brian Ronan
	Rock of Ages	Peter Hylenski

2010s

Year	Production	Nominees
2010 (64th) ^[17]
	Fela!	Robert Kaplowitz
	La Cage aux Folles	Jonathan Deans
	A Little Night Music	Dan Moses Schreier and Gareth Owen
	Sondheim on Sondheim	Dan Moses Schreier
2011 (65th) ^[18]
	The Book of Mormon	Brian Ronan
	Anything Goes	Brian Ronan
	Catch Me If You Can	Steve Canyon Kennedy
	The Scottsboro Boys	Peter Hylenski
2012 (66th) ^[19]
	Once	Clive Goodwin
	Follies	Kai Harada
	Nice Work If You Can Get It	Brian Ronan
	Porgy and Bess	Acme Sound Partners
2013 (67th) ^[20]
	Kinky Boots	John Shivers
	Motown: The Musical	Peter Hylenski
	Pippin	Jonathan Deans and Garth Helm
	Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella	Nevin Steinberg
2014 (68th) ^[21]
	Beautiful: The Carole King Musical	Brian Ronan
	After Midnight	Peter Hylenski
	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Tim O'Heir
	Les Misérables	Mick Potter
2018 (72nd) ^[22]
	The Band's Visit	Kai Harada
	Carousel	Scott Lehrer
	Mean Girls	Brian Ronan
	Once on This Island	Peter Hylenski
	SpongeBob SquarePants	Mike Dobson and Walter Trarbach
2019 (73rd) ^[23]
	Hadestown	Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz
	Ain’t Too Proud	Steve Canyon Kennedy
	Beetlejuice	Peter Hylenski
	King Kong	Peter Hylenski
	Oklahoma!	Drew Levy

2020s

Year	Production	Nominees
2020 (74th)
	Moulin Rouge!	Peter Hylenski
	Jagged Little Pill	Jonathan Deans
	Tina - The Tina Turner Musical	Nevin Steinberg
2022 (75th) ^[24]
	MJ	Gareth Owen
	Company	Ian Dickinson for Autograph
	Girl from the North Country	Simon Baker
	Six	Paul Gatehouse
	A Strange Loop	Drew Levy
2023 76th Tony Awards
	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Nevin Steinberg
	& Juliet	Gareth Owen
	Into the Woods	Scott Lehrer and Alex Neumann
	New York, New York	Kai Harada
	Shucked	John Shivers

Multiple wins

2 Wins

• Gareth Fry
• Brian Ronan
• Nevin Steinberg

Multiple nominations

8 Nominations Peter Hylenski 7 Nominations Scott Lehrer 5 Nominations Acme Sound Partners Dan Moses Schreier

4 Nominations Paul Arditti Simon Baker Adam Cork Jonathan Deans Ian Dickinson Gareth Owen Nevin Steinberg

3 Nominations Kai Harada Steve Canyon Kennedy Nick Powell

2 Nominations Dominic Bilkey Daniel Kluger Drew Levy Ben Ringham Max Ringham Leon Rothenberg John Shivers

Historic nominations & wins

2011: Acme Sound Partners and Cricket S. Myers – Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

• Cricket S. Myers is the first woman to receive a Tony nomination for Sound Design of a Play.^[25][26]

2019: Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz – Hadestown

• 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.^[27][28]

See also

• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design
• Laurence Olivier Award for Best Sound Design
• List of Tony Award-nominated productions

References

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25. . Archived from the original on 2011-05-06. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
26. "NOMINATIONS / 2011 / SOUND DESIGN - PLAY". Tony Awards. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
27. Smith, Courtney E. "Jessica Paz's Unlikely Journey From Scuba Store Employee To Landmark Tony Nominee". www.refinery29.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
28. McPhee, Ryan (June 10, 2019). "4 Key Takeaways From the 2019 Tony Awards". Playbill. Retrieved 2019-06-11.

External links

• Tony Awards official website