Tom Kitt, Laurence O’Keefe & More to Serve on 2015-2016 Tony Awards Nominating Committee

This year's Tonys may not even have taken place yet, but it's already time to start thing about next year! The nominating committee for the 2015-16 Tony Awards has been announced and new members of the 51-strong team include If/Then and Next to Normal scribe Tom Kitt as well as Laurence O’Keefe, who penned Legally Blonde. Tony nominators attend every Broadway production and select Tony nominees at the end of the season. The 2015 Tony Awards, hosted by Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming, will be broadcast on June 7 live on CBS from Radio City Music Hall.

The 2015-2016 Nominating Committee includes (** denotes new member):

Douglas Aibel – Artistic Dir., The Vineyard Theatre
Adrian Bailey – Actor**
Victoria Bailey – Executive Director, Theatre Development Fund**
Ira Bernstein – Former Producer/General Manager/Stage Manager/Casting Director
Hope Clarke – Choreographer**
Veronica Claypool – Arts Management Consultant, Full Circle Management Group/Former GM
Paul Cremo – Dramaturg/Director of Opera Commissioning Program, The Metropolitan Opera
Trip Cullman – Director**
Harvey Evans –Actor
Sean Patrick Flahaven – Writer/Composer/Orchestrator/Conductor/Producer**
Paul Gallo – Lighting Designer
Kent Gash – Director/Founding Dir., of NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ New Studio on Broadway
Jenny Gersten – Former Executive Director, Friends of the High Line
Daniel Goldfarb – Playwright / Book writer**
Sam Gonzalez – Dir. of Operations, Pfizer Medical/Board of Trustees Playwrights Horizons**
Adam Gwon – Composer/Lyricist**
Roy Harris – Production Stage Manager**
Philip Himberg – Artistic Director, Sundance Institute Theatre Program
Jack Hofsiss – Theatre/Film/Television Director
Julie Hughes – Former Casting Director
Lou Jacob – Director/Chair of the MFA Directing Program at the New School for Drama**
Stephen Karam –Playwright
Tom Kitt – Composer**
Corby Kummer – Senior Editor, The Atlantic Magazine
Fran Kumin – Consultant – Perf. Arts Organizations/Foundations/University Theatre Programs**
Dick Latessa – Actor
Kate Levin – Cultural Assets Management Principal, Bloomberg Associates
Reynold Levy – Former President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Sara Lukinson – Documentary Film Producer/Television Writer
Patricia Marx – American Humorist and Writer/Former Television Writer
Marsha Mason – Actor/Director
Jim McLaughlin – Former Producer, CBS News
Debra Monk - Actor
Roger Morgan – Lighting Designer/Theatre Designer
Laurence O’Keefe – Composer**
Katherine Oliver – Media and Technology Principal, Bloomberg Associates
Christian Parker – Chair, Graduate Theatre Program, Columbia University
Paige Price – Actor/1st Vice President of AEA/Executive Artistic Director, Theatre Aspen**
Ravi S. Rajan – Dean, School of the Arts – SUNY Purchase Nigel Redden – Gen. Dir., Spoleto Festival USA/Dir., Lincoln Center Festival
Susan H. Schulman – Director/President, Stage Directors and Choreographers
Scott Schwartz - Director
Linda Shelton – Executive Dir., Joyce Theater Foundation
Warner Shook – Director**
Arlene Shuler – President & CEO, New York City Center
Edward Strong – Producer**
Wynn Thomas – Production Designer
Jennifer von Mayrhauser – Costume Designer**
Robin Wagner – Scenic Designer
Tom Watson – Retired Executive-Television Advertising**
Preston Whiteway – Executive Director, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center