The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced members of the Tony Nominating Committee for the 2010-2011 Broadway season. Among the high-profile names joining the 30-member committee are actor André De Shields, playwright/director Moisés Kaufman and director Michael Greif. The Tony Awards are presented by the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. The members of the Nominating Committee are as follows, with new members are indicated by an asterisk:
*Victoria Bailey, Executive Director, Theatre Development Fund
David Caddick, Music Supervisor
Ben Cameron, Program Director for the Arts – Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Kathleen Chalfant, Actor
Hope Clarke, Stage Director/Choreographer/Actor
Thomas Cott, Producer/Management Consultant
*André De Shields, Actor
Edgar Dobie, Producer/General Manager/Managing Director, Arena Stage Washington, DC
*Gordon Edelstein, Director/Artistic Director of Long Wharf Theatre
*Beverly Emmons, Lighting Designer
*Michael Greif, Director
Paulette Haupt, Director of the Music Theatre Conference at The O’Neill Center
*Mark Hollmann, Composer/Lyricist
Elena K. Holy, Founder of the International Fringe Festival
Robert Kamlot, Retired General Manager
*Moisés Kaufman, Director/Playwright/Artistic Director, Tectonic Theater
Robert Kimball, Author
Pia Lindström, Former Reporter/Theatre Critic
*Todd London, Artistic Director, New Dramatists
Donna McKechnie, Actor/Choreographer
Jon Nakagawa, Producer of Contemporary Programming – Lincoln Center
Alice Playten, Actor
Theresa Rebeck, Playwright
Susan H. Schulman, Director
*Rosemarie Tichler, Theatre Executive, Educator/Casting Director
Tamara Tunie, Actor/Producer
William Tynan, Actor/Reporter
*Kevin Wade, Playwright/Screenwriter
Doug Wright, Playwright/Screenwriter
Andrew Zerman, Retired Casting Director