New Tony Nominators Include Roger Rees and Donald Saddler

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced the roster for the 2007-08 Nominating Committee. Among the 10 members beginning new three-year terms are actor/director Roger Rees, a Tony winner for Nicholas Nickleby, and choreographer Donald Saddler, a two-time Tony winner for Wonderful Town and No, No, Nanette.

Nominating Committee members attend all productions during the Broadway season and meets on the date designated by the Administration Committee to determine, by vote, the Tony Award nominees for that season. The Tonys are presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing.

The 2007-08 committee includes new members are marked with *:

Joe Benincasa, President of The Actor's Fund of America
Robert Callely,Theatre Executive
Betty Corwin, Retired Director of the Lincoln Center Library of Theatre on Film & Tape
*Jacqueline Z. Davis, Executive Director of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
John Dias, Producer, Dramaturg, Educator
*Michael D. Dinwiddie, Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU
*Teresa Eyring, Executive Director of the Theatre Communications Group
Sue Frost, Producer
Joanna Gleason, Actor
Andrew Jackness, Scenic Designer
Betty Jacobs, Script Consultant/Theatre Historian
*Geoffrey Johnson, Retired Casting Director

Robert Kamlot, Retired General Manager
*Michael Kantor, Director, Producer, Writer
*Howard Marren, Composer
*Laurence Maslon, Associate Arts Professor, Graduate Acting Program , Tisch School of the Arts
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Actor
Phyllis Newman, Actor
Lynn Nottage, Playwright
Gilbert Parker, Retired Senior-Vice President of the William Morris Agency
*Roger Rees, Actor, Director, Playwright, Lecturer, Administrator
Jonathan Reynolds, Playwright & Screenwriter
*Donald Saddler, Choreographer
Steven Suskin, Theatre Author
Tom Viola, President, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Franklin Weissberg, Retired Judge of the New York State Court of Claims
*Kimberlee Wertz, Music Contractor