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2025 Drama League Portraits

May 19, 2025

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Glengarry Glen Ross producers Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley

Frank DiLela, host of the 2025 Drama League Awards

Orin Wolf is the producer of nominated musical Buena Vista Social Club.

Marco Ramirez, book writer of Buena Vista Social Club

Operation Mincemeat's writers and stars Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, Zoë Roberts, David Cumming and Jak Malone

David Thaxton, Sunset Boulevard's Max von Mayerling

Norbert Leo Butz, a former Distinguished Performance Award winner, is recognized for his work in the off-Broadway play Vladimir.

Sergio Trujillo, nominated director of Real Women Have Curves

Kimberly Belflower penned the Outstanding Production of a Play nominee John Proctor is the Villain

Will Aronson and Hue Park are the writing team behind Outstanding Production of a Musical winner Maybe Happy Ending.

Jack Noseworthy, producer of the nominated musical Real Women Have Curves

Tom Kirdahy is a producer on nominated musicals Just in Time and Gypsy.

Mara Isaacs is the lead producer of Gypsy, nominated for Outstanding Revival of a Musical.

Eureka Day playwright Jonathan Spector earned the award for Outstanding Revival of a Play, tying with Vanya.

Amy Berryman, author of the nominated play Walden

Director Schele Williams received the Drama League’s 2024 Founders Award for Excellence in Directing.

Danya Taymor was nominated in the Direction category for her work on John Proctor is the Villain.

Sam Pinkleton won Outstanding Direction of a Play for helming the hit comedy Oh, Mary!

Jamie Lloyd earned a Drama League nomination for his imaginative direction of the Sunset Boulevard revival.

Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, composing team behind Death Becomes Her

English playwright Sanaz Toossi

Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her’s death-defying Helen Sharp

Francis Jue performed earlier this season in the Broadway revival of Yellow Face

Helen J Shen stars as retired robot Claire in Maybe Happy Ending, her Broadway debut.

George C. Wolfe, nominated director of the Broadway revival of Gypsy

Andrew Durand plays an outlaw—in life and in death—in the new musical Dead Outlaw.

Cole Escola is recognized as both star and playwright of Oh, Mary!

Saheem Ali, nominated director of both Good Bones and Buena Vista Social Club

Marjan Neshat was featured earlier this season in the ensemble play English.

Adrienne Warren stars as Cathy in Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years.

Zhailon Levingston earned a nomination alongside Bill Rauch for their direction of Cats: The Jellicle Ball.

“All the topics in our musical, whether it’s women’s bodies, women’s rights, bodily autonomy or immigration are as relevant as they’ve ever been.” –Tatianna Córdoba of Real Women Have Curves

Kate Navin, head of creative development for North America for Audible, received special recognition for Contribution to the Theater.

Michael Arden, winner of Outstanding Direction of a Musical for Maybe Happy Ending

Gabrielle Nevaeh, Patty Newby in Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Knud Adams, nominated director of English

Mia Farrow won hearts with her performance in Jen Silverman’s The Roommate.

Dead Outlaw composer David Yazbek and book writer Itamar Moses celebrate their nominated musical.

Lea Salonga lives her Sweeney Todd dreams in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends.

Alaska Thunderf*ck is recognized as creator and star of Drag: The Musical.

Sutton Foster won the Distinguished Performance Award in 2022 for The Music Man, and is acknowledged this season for her performance in Once Upon a Mattress.

Jinkx Monsoon brings her star power to Pirates! The Penzance Musical.

Stori Ayers, who made her Broadway debut in Home, is also partway through her MFA in Directing at the American Film Institute.

Tala Ashe made her Broadway debut in the Pulitzer-winning play English.

André De Shields played Old Deuteronomy in last year’s drag culture-inspired Cats: The Jellicle Ball.

Death Becomes Her diva Megan Hilty earned a nod for her performance as Madeline Ashton.

Everybody rise! It’s Beth Leavel, nominated performer in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends.

Lily Rabe led the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Ibsen’s Ghosts.

Ephraim Sykes played the sweet George Gibbs in Kenny Leon’s Broadway revival of Our Town.

Ryan J. Haddad, nominated solo performer of Hold Me in the Water

Justina Machado, featured performer in Real Women Have Curves, is among the Distinguished Performance nominees.

“A 56-year-old Black woman leading a Broadway show, playing a legendary Latin singer? It’s wild. It’s beautiful.” -Natalie Venetia Belcon of Buena Vista Social Club

Jonathan Groff and Gracie Lawrence, Just in Time's Bobby Darin and Connie Francis

LaTanya Richardson Jackson, the matriarch of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Purpose, is one of this year’s celebrated performers.

Glenn Davis, one of the stars of the nominated play Purpose

Louis McCartney, nominated star of Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Tommy Dorfman, who made her Broadway debut in Romeo + Juliet, most recently played the first openly transgender woman raised in a Hasidic community in Becoming Eve with New York Theatre Workshop.

Sarah Snook stars opposite two dozen versions of herself in Kip Williams' adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Broadway legend Bernadette Peters is a former Distinguished Performance Award winner and is recognized this year for her turn in Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends.

Nick Jonas earned a nomination for co-starring in the two-handed musical The Last Five Years.

Whitney White received the Founders Award for Excellence in Directing and was also nominated for her direction of Bess Wohl’s Liberation.

Tom Francis, nominated star of Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard co-stars Tom Francis and Nicole Scherzinger strike a pose.

Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard’s Norma Desmond, is the winner of this year’s coveted Distinguished Performance Award.

Joy Woods plays Louise (aka Gypsy Rose Lee) in George C. Wolfe’s revival of Gypsy.

Conrad Ricamora, Mary's Husband of the hit Broadway comedy Oh, Mary!

The Drama League recognized Kara Young for her performance in Purpose on Broadway and Table 17 off-Broadway.

Andrew Scott stood out this season for his solo performance of Vanya at the Lucille Lortel.

Robyn Hurder, Smash’s Ivy Lynn, is a Drama League nominee.

Idina Menzel led this season’s original Broadway musical Redwood.

Funnyman Brooks Ashmanskas lends his comic expertise to Smash this season.

Jerry Mitchell was nominated for his direction of Broadway’s BOOP!

Darren Criss, who plays a retired robot in the sci-fi-tinged love story Maybe Happy Ending

Ramin Karimloo gives a swashbuckling (and Drama League-nominated) performance in Pirates! The Penzance Musical.

David Cromer directed this season’s acclaimed musical Dead Outlaw, but earned a Drama League nomination for his direction of Good Night, and Good Luck.

Jasmine Amy Rogers plays iconic cartoon flapper Betty Boop in BOOP!

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