The Tony Awards 2022: The full list of winners 🏆🗽

Who were the big winners at this year's awards?

Author: Rhys FreemanPublished 12th Jun 2022
Last updated 13th Jun 2022

The 75th Tony Awards took place last night and it was quite the event. With plenty of great shows taking home awards at Broadway's biggest night.

The big winners this year included Marianne Elliot's revival of Company and Ben Power's play The Lehman Trilogy and Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop. Six: The Musical did us proud picking up two Tony Awards.

The 2022 Tony Award nominations in full:

Best Orchestrations

David Cullen - Company

Tom Curran - Six: The Musical

Simon Hale - Girl From the North Country (WINNER)

Jason Michael Webb and David Holcenberg - MJ

Charlie Rosen - A Strange Loop

Best Choreography

Camille A. Brown - for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Warren Carlyle - The Music Man

Carrie-Anne Ingrouille - Six: The Musical

Bill T. Jones - Paradise Square

Christopher Wheeldon - MJ (WINNER)

Best Direction of a Musical

Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage - Six: The Musical

Stephen Beckett - A Strange Loop

Marianne Elliott - Company (WINNER)

Conor McPherson - Girl from the North Country

Christopher Wheeldon - MJ

Best Direction of a Play

Lileana Blain-Cruz - The Skin of Our Teeth

Camille A. Brown - for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Sam Mendes - The Lehman Trilogy (WINNER)

Neil Pepe - American Buffalo

Les waters - Hana H.

Best Sound Design of a Musical

Ian Dickinson for Autograph - Company

Simon Baker - Girl from the North Country

Paul Gatehouse - Six: The Musical

Drew Levy - A Strange Loop

Gareth Owen - MJ (WINNER)

Best Sound Design of a Play

Nick Powell and Dominic Bilkey - The Lehman Trilogy

Justin Ellington - for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Mikhail Fiksel - Dana H. (WINNER)

Palmer Hefferan - The Skin of Our Teeth

Mikaal Sulaiman - Macbeth

Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Neil Austin - Company

Tim Deiling - Six: The Musical

Donald Holder - Paradise Square

Natasha Katz - MJ (WINNER)

Bradley King - Flying Over Sunset

Jen Schriever - A Strange Loop

Best Lighting Design of a Play

Joshua Carr - Hangmen

Jiyoun Chang - for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Jon Clark - The Lehman Trilogy (WINNER)

Jane Cox - Macbeth

Yi Zhao - The Skin of Our Teeth

Best Costume Design of a Musical

Fly Davis - Caroline, or Change

Toni-Leslie James - Paradise Square

William Ivey Long - Diana, the Musical

Santo Loquasto - The Music Man

Gabriella Slade - Six: The Musical (WINNER)

Paul Tazewell - MJ

Best Costume Design of a Play

Montana Levi Blanco - The Skin of Our Teeth (WINNER)

Sarafina Bush - for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Jane Greenwood - Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite

Jennifer Moeller - Clyde's

Emilio Sosa - Trouble in Mind

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

Bunny Christie - Company (WINNER)

Arnulfo Maldonado - A Strange Loop

Allen Moyer - Paradise Square

Derek McLane and Peter Nigrini - MJ

Beowulf Boritt and 59 Productions - Flying Over Sunset

Best Scenic Design of a Play

Beowulf Boritt - POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

Es Devlin - The Lehman Trilogy (WINNER)

Anna Fleischle - Hangmen

Michael Carnahan and Nicholas Hussong - Skeleton Crew

Scott Pask - American Buffalo

Adam Rigg - The Skin of Our Teeth

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Jeannette Bayardelle - Girl from the North Country

Shoshana Bean - Mr. Saturday Night

Jayne Houdyshell - The Music Man

L Morgan Lee - A Strange Loop

Patti LuPone - Company (WINNER)

Jennifer Simard - Company

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

Matt Doyle - Company (WINNER)

Sidney DuPont - Paradise Square

Jared Grimes - Funny Girl

John-Andrew Morrison - A Strange Loop

A.J. Shively - Paradise Square

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Uzo Aduba - Clyde's

Rachel Dratch - POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

Kenita R. Miller - for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Phylicia Rashad - Skeleton Crew (WINNER)

Julie White - POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

Kara Young - Clyde's

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Alfie Allen - Hangmen

Chuck Cooper - Trouble in Mind

Jesse Tyler Ferguson - Take Me Out (WINNER)

Ron Cephas Jones - Clyde's

Michael Oberholtzer - Take Me Out

Jesse Williams - Take Me Out

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Sharon D Clarke - Caroline, or Change

Carmen Cusack - Flying Over Sunset

Sutton Foster - The Music Man

Joaquina Kalukango - Paradise Square (WINNER)

Mare Winningham - Girl from the North Country

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

Billy Crystal - Mr. Saturday Night

Myles Frost - MJ (WINNER)

Hugh Jackman - The Music Man

Rob McClure - Mrs. Doubtfire

Jaquel Spivey - A Strange Loop

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Gabby Beans - The Skin of Our Teeth

LaChanze - Trouble in Mind

Ruth Negga - Macbeth

Deirdre O'Connell - Dana H. (WINNER)

Mary-Louise Parker - How I Learned to Drive

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Simon Russell Beale - The Lehman Trilogy (WINNER)

Adam Godley - The Lehman Trilogy

Adrian Lester - The Lehman Trilogy

David Morse - How I Learned to Drive

Sam Rockwell - American Buffalo

Ruben Santiago-Hudson - Lackawanna Blues

David Threlfall - Hangmen

Best Revival of a Musical

Caroline, or Change

Company (WINNER)

The Music Man

Best Revival of a Play

American Buffalo

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

How I Learned to Drive

Take Me Out (WINNER)

Trouble in Mind

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Flying Over Sunset - Music by Tom Kitt, Lyrics by Michael Korie

Mr. Saturday Night - Music by Jason Robert Brown, Lyrics by Amanda Green

Paradise Square - Lyrics by Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare, Music by Jason Howland

Six: The Musical - Music and lyrics by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (WINNER)

A Strange Loop - Music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson

Best Book of a Musical

Girl From the North Country - Conor McPherson

MJ - Lynn Nottage

Mr. Saturday Night - Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel

Paradise Square - Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas and Larry Kirwan

A Strange Loop - Michael R. Jackson (WINNER)

Best Musical

Girl From the North Country

MJ

Mr. Saturday Night

Paradise Square

Six: The Musical

A Strange Loop (WINNER)

Best Play

Clyde's by Lynn Nottage

Hangmen by Martin McDonagh

The Lehman Trilogy by Ben Power (WINNER)

The Minutes by Tracy Letts

Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

Angela Lansbury

Special Tony Award

James C. Nicola

Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award

Robert E. Wankel

Regional Theatre Tony Award

Court Theatre, Chicago

Looking back at the Olivier Award winners for Best Musical Revival:

1991 - Show Boat

The first ever winner in this category was the Opera North and Royal Shakespeare Company's co-production of Show Boat which ran at the London Palladium in 1990.

1992 - The Boys from Syracuse

The Boys From Syracuse is a Rogers and Hart musical based on Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. This production ran at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in the summer of 1991 and was directed by none other than Dame Judi Dench.

1993 - Carousel

The National Theatre's first win in this category was their revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel which enjoyed a sellout limited run from December 1992 to March 1993. The revival then re-opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in September of that year.

1994 - Sweeney Todd

Alun Armstrong and Julia McKenzie starred in the first London revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd. The production ran at the Cottesloe Theatre (now named the Dorfman) from June 1993 before transferring to the Lyttleton Theatre December of that year.

1995 - She Loves Me

She Loves me was revived at the Savoy Theatre and was directed by Scott Ellis and choreographed by Rob Marshal, the pair had just done a Broadway revival of She Loves Me the year prior.


The West End revival starred John Gordon Sinclair and Ruthie Henshall with the pair both winning Best Actor and Actress in a Musical.

1997 - The Who's Tommy

This year the name of the award changed to Outstanding Musical Production, which lasted through until 2007.
This rock musical is based on the 1969 rock opera, Tommy by The Who.

1998 - Chicago

In 1997, the Broadway revival of Kander and Ebb's Chicago transferred to the West End with Ute Lemper as Velma Ruthie Henshall as Roxie. The West End revival ran until 2012 and the Broadway revival is still running to this day!

1999 - Oklahoma!

The National Theatre revived Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma in 1998 with a cast that included Hugh Jackman as Curly, Maureen Lipman as Aunt Eller, Josefina Gabrielle as Laurey and Shuler Hensley as Jud Fry.

2000 - Candide

A second win in a row for the National Theatre with their 1999 production of Candide which includes music by West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein.

2001 - Singin' in the Rain

The West Yorkshire Playhouse's production of Singin' in the Rain directed by Jude Kelly quickly got a West End transfer and ran at the National's Olivier Theatre for a month in 2000.

2002 - My Fair Lady

The National continued their winning streak with their production of My Fair Lady which starred Martine McCutcheon as Eliza and Jonathan Pryce as Higgins. The production then transferred to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane after four months.

2003 - Anything Goes

The National Theatre got their fifth win in a row with their production of Anything Goes which starred Sally Ann Triplett, John Barrowman and Yao Chin. Like My Fair Lady, the production then transferred to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

2004 - Pacific Overtures

The Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Pacific Overtures transferred to the Donmar Warehouse where it ran for a short period in 2003.

2005 - Grand Hotel

A second win a row for the Donmar Warehouse with their revival of Grand Hotel starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.

2006 - Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls was revived at the Piccadilly Theatre running between 2005 and 2007. The cast of this production originally included Ewan McGregor as Sky, Jenna Russell as Sarah, Jane Krakowski as Adelaide and Douglas Hodge as Nathan Detroit.

2007 - Sunday in the Park with George

The Menier Chocolate Factory's production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George transferred to the West End at the Wyndham's Theatre in 2006. The West End production starred Daniel Evans as George and Jenna Russell as Dot, both of whom won Olivier Awards for their respective roles.

2008 - The Magic Flute

After a run in Cape Town and at the Young Vic, The Magic Flute transferred to the West End with a run at the Duke of York's Theatre.

2009 - La Cage Aux Folles

Following the success of the Menier Chocolate Factory's scaled down production of La Cage Aux Folles, it got a West End transfer at the Playhouse Theatre with Douglas Hodge as Albin.


The success of the revival saw it get a Broadway transfer with Douglas reprising his role.

2010 - Hello Dolly!

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre started a streak of wins in this category with their revival of Hello Dolly! which starred Samantha Spiro in the titular role.

2011 - Into the Woods

The second win in this streak was for their revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods - which was very fitting for an open air theatre!

2012 - Crazy For You

Ira and George Gershwin's Crazy For You was Regent's Park's third win in a row for this category. This production got an extended life when it transferred to the Novello Theatre in October 2011.

2013 - Sweeney Todd

Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd broke an Olivier record this year when it became the first musical to win Best Musical Revival for a second time. This production began at the Chichester Festival Theatre and transferred to the Adelphi Theatre in the West End in 2012.

2014 - Merrily We Roll Along

Stephen Sondheim got a second win in a row for this category with the West End transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory's production of Merrily We Roll Along which ran at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

2015 - City of Angels

Cy Coleman, David Zippel, and Larry Gelbart's City of Angels was revived at the Donmar Warehouse in 2014 directed by Josie Rourke.

2016 - Gypsy

Another win for Sondheim (as a lyricist at least) with the West End transfer of the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Gypsy which starred Imelda Staunton in the iconic role of Mamma Rose.

2017 - Jesus Christ Superstar

The first Andrew Lloyd Webber revival to win this award was the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar. This production went on to get runs in the US as well as the Barbican Centre in London.


The production returned to Regent's Park as a socially distanced concert in the summer of 2020.

2018 - Follies

The winner in 2018 was the National Theatre's revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies which starred Peter Forbes as Buddy, Imelda Staunton as Sally, Janie Dee as Phyllis, Philip Quast as Ben and Tracie Bennett as Carlotta.


The production was filmed and screened in cinemas as well as making a return to the Olivier Theatre in 2019.

2019 - Company

A modern reimagining of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company saw the leading role gender-swapped and played by Rosalie Craig. Patti LuPone reprised the role of Joanne (which she played in the 2011 Broadway concert).


The production is now running on Broadway.

2020 - Fiddler on the Roof

The Menier Chocolate Factory's production of Fiddler on the Roof directed by Trevor Nunn got a West End transfer. The West End production opened at the Playhouse Theatre in March 2019.

2022 - Cabaret

London's Playhouse Theatre has been transformed into the Kit Kat Club for this brand new revival of Cabaret directed by Rebecca Frecknall. As well as winning Best Musical Revival the production won in all four acting categories and now joins Hamilton and Matilda as one of the most awarded musicals with a total of seven wins.

2023 - Oklahoma!

Following a Tony-winning run on Broadway, Daniel Fish's stripped down revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! transferred to the Young Vic in London. Since then it transferred to the West End at the Wyndham's Theatre.

Read more:

Olivier Awards 2022: Everything you need to know

The winners at this year's Olivier Awards

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