Awards & Honors

Alumni and Faculty Awards and Honors as of April 7, 2022

73rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 2021

Outstanding Production Design for a Variety, Reality, or Competition Series Eugene Lee ’86 Akira Yoshimura ’71 Winner, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series James Burrows ’65 Nominee, B Positive

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Jonathan Majors ’16 Nominee, Lovecraft Country

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Moses Ingram ’19 Nominee, The Queen’s Gambit

Kathryn Hahn ’01 Nominee, WandaVision

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Courtney B. Vance ’86 Winner, Lovecraft Country

Outstanding Narrator Sigourney Weaver ’74 Nominee, Secrets of the Whales

Outstanding Variety Sketch Series Tom Broecker ’92 (Producer) Winner, Saturday Night Live

48th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards: Children’s & Animation Categories 2021

Outstanding Limited Performance in a Children’s Program Lupita Nyong’o ’12 Winner, Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices Outstanding Directing Team for a Preschool, Children’s, or Family Viewing Program Shannon Flynn ’02 Winner, Sesame Street

94th Annual Academy Awards 2022

Production Design Adam Stockhausen ’99 Nominee, West Side Story

78th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2021

Best Motion Picture – Drama Frances McDormand ’82 (Producer) Winner, Nomadland

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Frances McDormand ’82 Nominee, Nomadland

27th Screen Actors Guild Awards 2021

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Yahya Abdul-Mateen II ’15 Winner, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Jonathan Majors ’16 Nominee, Da 5 Bloods

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Frances McDormand ’82 Nominee, Nomadland

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Jonathan Majors ’16 Nominee, Lovecraft Country

74th Annual Tony Awards 2020

Best Play Bess Wohl ’02, ART ’99 (Playwright) Nominee, Grand Horizons

Jeremy O. Harris ’19 (Playwright) Robert O’Hara (Faculty) (Director) Nominee, Slave Play

Best Revival of a Play Arin Arbus (Faculty) (Director) Nominee, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

Best Original Score Daniel Kluger YC ’08 (Faculty) Nominee, The Sound Inside

Fitz Patton ’01 Nominee, The Rose Tattoo

Best Direction of a Play Robert O’Hara (Faculty) Nominee, Slave Play

Best Leading Actor in a Play Andrew Burnap ’16 Winner, The Inheritance

Best Featured Actor in a Play David Alan Grier ’81 Winner, A Soldier’s Play

Ato Blankson-Wood ’15 Nominee, Slave Play

James Cusati-Moyer ’15 Nominee, Slave Play

Best Featured Actress in a Play Chalia La Tour ’16 Nominee, Slave Play

Best Scenic Design of a Play Derek McLane ’84 Nominee, A Soldier’s Play Best Scenic Design of a Musical Derek McLane ’84 Winner, Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Riccardo Hernández ’92 (Faculty) Nominee, Jagged Little Pill

Best Costume Design of a Play Dede M. Ayite ’11 Nominee, A Soldier’s Play Nominee, Slave Play

Best Costume Design of a Musical Catherine Zuber ’84 Winner, Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Emily Rebholz ’06 Nominee, Jagged Little Pill

Best Lighting Design of a Play Jiyoun “Jiji” Chang ’08 Nominee, Slave Play

Best Sound Design of a Play Daniel Kluger YC ’08 (Faculty) Nominee, Sea Wall/A Life

Daniel Kluger YC ’08 (Faculty) Nominee, The Sound Inside

27th Critics Choice Awards 2022

Best Acting Ensemble Meryl Streep ’75, HON ’83 Nominee, Don’t Look Up

Best Production Design Adam Stockhausen ’99 Rena DeAngelo Nominee, The French Dispatch Nominee, West Side Story

Best Animated Feature Charise Castro Smith ’10 (Co-Director & Screenwriter) Nominee, Encanto

Awards & Honors

Best Drama Series Mary Laws ’14 (Consulting Producer/Writer) Susan Soon He Stanton ’10 (Supervising Producer/Writer) Winner, Succession

Best Comedy Series Amelia Roper ’13 (Consulting Producer) Nominee, The Great

Kim Rosenstock ’10 (Consulting Producer/Writer) Nominee, Only Murders in the Building

Best Limited Series Marcus Gardley ’04 (Co-Executive Producer/Writer) Nominee, Maid

Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series of Movie Made for Television Courtney B. Vance ’86 Nominee, Genius: Aretha

Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television Kathryn Hahn ’01 Nominee, WandaVision

87th Annual Drama League Awards 2021

Outstanding Digital Theater, Individual Production Michael Breslin ’19, Patrick Foley ’18 (Creators) Catherine María Rodríguez, Ariel Sibert ’18 (Collaborating Artists) Rory Pelsue ’18 (Director) Nominee, Circle Jerk

Blanka Zizka (Faculty) (Director) Nominee, Heroes of the Fourth Turning Outstanding Digital Theater, Collection or Festival Alan C. Edwards ’11 (Faculty), Brittany Bland ’19, Mika Eubanks ’19, Twi McCallum ’21, Megumi Katayama ’21, Riw Rakkulchon ’19, Dede M. Ayite ’11 (Creators) Nominee, 1MOVE: DES19NED BY…

Timothy Douglas ’86 (Director) Nominee, The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration and Influence

Outstanding Interactive or Socially-Distanced Theater Tamilla Woodard ’02 (Faculty) (Creator/Director) Nominee, American Dreams

Haydee Delideth ’17 (Costume Consultant) Nominee, Carla’s Quince

Liz Duffy Adams ’97 (Playwright) Nominee, Wild Thyme

Outstanding Audio Theater Production May Adrales ’06 (Former Faculty) (Director) Nominee, OUTTAKES

Outstanding Digital Concert Production Ethan Heard ’13, YC ’07 (Faculty) (Director) Nominee, Breathing Free, A Visual Album

Michael Breslin ’19, Patrick Foley ’18 (Stage Adaptors) Nominee, Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical The 2021 Pulitzer Prizes

Drama Michael Breslin ’19, Patrick Foley ’18 Finalist, Circle Jerk

USITT Awards 2021

Distinguished Achievement Award in Engineering Alan Hendrickson ’83 (Faculty)

57th Annual Henry Hewes Design Awards 2021

Ming Cho Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design Toni-Leslie James (Faculty)

43rd Annual Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2021

Miranda Rose Hall ’17 Finalist, A Play for the Living in the Time of Extinction

37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards 2022

Outstanding Play Lynne Meadow ’71 (Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club) Nominee, Prayer for the French Republic

Outstanding Musical Lynn Nottage ’89 (Former Faculty) (Libretto by) Nominee, Intimate Apparel

Outstanding Ensemble Tiffany Rachelle Stewart ’07 Nominee, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Outstanding Scenic Design Wilson Chin ’03 Nominee, Space Dogs

Adam Rigg ’13 Nominee, cullud wattah Nominee, On Sugarland Outstanding Costume Design Catherine Zuber ’84 Nominee, Intimate Apparel

Outstanding Sound Design Mikaal Sulaiman (Faculty) Nominee, Sanctuary City

Outstanding Projection Design Caite Hevner ’07 Nominee, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord

Playwrights’ Sidewalk Inductee David Henry Hwang ’83