# Tony Award for Best Sound Design

The Tony Awards for Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical recognize excellence in sound design for Broadway theatre. They were first given in the 2007–2008 season. In 2014, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced that starting with the 2014–2015 season the Tony Awards for Best Sound Design of a Play and of a Musical would be eliminated, but that they would consider awarding "a special Tony award for certain productions that have excelled in this particular design realm". This resulted in considerable industry backlash, including thousands of signatures on a petition and a viral social media campaign by sound designer John Gromada, #TonyCanYouHearMe, and was a catalyst for the formation in 2014 of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association, to protest for its reinstatement. In 2017, the committee presented a Special Tony Award to Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin for their sound design of Complicité's The Encounter. In 2017, the committee announced that the two Sound Design awards would again be presented starting in the 2017–2018 season.

## List of winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Production | Nominees |
| 2008 (62nd) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2008 (62nd) | The 39 Steps | Mic Pool |
| 2008 (62nd) | Boeing-Boeing | Simon Baker |
| 2008 (62nd) | Macbeth | Adam Cork |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2008 (62nd) | South Pacific | Scott Lehrer |
| 2008 (62nd) | Gypsy | Dan Moses Schreier |
| 2008 (62nd) | In the Heights | Acme Sound Partners |
| 2008 (62nd) | Sunday in the Park with George | Sebastian Frost |
| 2008 (62nd) | Rock 'n' Roll | Ian Dickinson |
| 2009 (63rd) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2009 (63rd) | Equus | Gregory Clarke |
| 2009 (63rd) | Exit the King | Russell Goldsmith |
| 2009 (63rd) | Joe Turner's Come and Gone | Scott Lehrer and Leon Rothenberg |
| 2009 (63rd) | Mary Stuart | Paul Arditti |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2009 (63rd) | Billy Elliot the Musical | Paul Arditti |
| 2009 (63rd) | Hair | Acme Sound Partners |
| 2009 (63rd) | Next to Normal | Brian Ronan |
| 2009 (63rd) | Rock of Ages | Peter Hylenski |

### 2010s

| Year | Production | Nominees |
| 2010 (64th) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2010 (64th) | Red | Adam Cork |
| 2010 (64th) | Enron | Cork |
| 2010 (64th) | Fences | Acme Sound Partners |
| 2010 (64th) | A View from the Bridge | Scott Lehrer |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2010 (64th) | Fela! | Robert Kaplowitz |
| 2010 (64th) | La Cage aux Folles | Jonathan Deans |
| 2010 (64th) | A Little Night Music | Dan Moses Schreier and Gareth Owen |
| 2010 (64th) | Sondheim on Sondheim | Schreier |
| 2011 (65th) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2011 (65th) | War Horse | Christopher Shutt |
| 2011 (65th) | Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | Acme Sound Partners and Cricket S. Myers |
| 2011 (65th) | Brief Encounter | Simon Baker |
| 2011 (65th) | Jerusalem | Ian Dickinson |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2011 (65th) | The Book of Mormon | Brian Ronan |
| 2011 (65th) | Anything Goes | Ronan |
| 2011 (65th) | Catch Me If You Can | Steve Canyon Kennedy |
| 2011 (65th) | The Scottsboro Boys | Peter Hylenski |
| 2012 (66th) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2012 (66th) | Peter and the Starcatcher | Darron L. West |
| 2012 (66th) | Death of a Salesman | Scott Lehrer |
| 2012 (66th) | End of the Rainbow | Gareth Owen |
| 2012 (66th) | 'One Man, Two Guvnors | Paul Arditti |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2012 (66th) | Once | Clive Goodwin |
| 2012 (66th) | Follies | Kai Harada |
| 2012 (66th) | Nice Work If You Can Get It | Brian Ronan |
| 2012 (66th) | Porgy and Bess | Acme Sound Partners |
| 2013 (67th) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2013 (67th) | The Nance | Leon Rothenberg |
| 2013 (67th) | Golden Boy | Peter John Still and Marc Salzberg |
| 2013 (67th) | The Testament of Mary | Mel Mercier |
| 2013 (67th) | The Trip to Bountiful | John Gromada |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2013 (67th) | Kinky Boots | John Shivers |
| 2013 (67th) | Motown: The Musical | Peter Hylenski |
| 2013 (67th) | Pippin | Jonathan Deans and Garth Helm |
| 2013 (67th) | Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella | Nevin Steinberg |
| 2014 (68th) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2014 (68th) | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Steve Canyon Kennedy |
| 2014 (68th) | Act One | Dan Moses Schreier |
| 2014 (68th) | The Cripple of Inishmaan | Alex Baranowski |
| 2014 (68th) | Machinal | Matt Tierney |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2014 (68th) | Beautiful: The Carole King Musical | Brian Ronan |
| 2014 (68th) | After Midnight | Peter Hylenski |
| 2014 (68th) | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Tim O'Heir |
| 2014 (68th) | Les Misérables | Mick Potter |
| 2018 (72nd) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2018 (72nd) | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | Gareth Fry |
| 2018 (72nd) | Angels in America | Ian Dickinson |
| 2018 (72nd) | The Iceman Cometh | Dan Moses Schreier |
| 2018 (72nd) | 1984 | Tom Gibbons |
| 2018 (72nd) | Travesties | Adam Cork |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2018 (72nd) | The Band's Visit | Kai Harada |
| 2018 (72nd) | Carousel | Scott Lehrer |
| 2018 (72nd) | Mean Girls | Brian Ronan |
| 2018 (72nd) | Once on This Island | Peter Hylenski |
| 2018 (72nd) | SpongeBob SquarePants | Mike Dobson and Walter Trarbach |
| 2019 (73rd) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2019 (73rd) | Choir Boy | Fitz Patton |
| 2019 (73rd) | The Ferryman | Nick Powell |
| 2019 (73rd) | Ink | Adam Cork |
| 2019 (73rd) | Network | Eric Sleichim |
| 2019 (73rd) | To Kill a Mockingbird | Scott Lehrer |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2019 (73rd) | Hadestown | Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz |
| 2019 (73rd) | Ain’t Too Proud | Steve Canyon Kennedy |
| 2019 (73rd) | Beetlejuice | Peter Hylenski |
| 2019 (73rd) | King Kong | Peter Hylenski |
| 2019 (73rd) | Oklahoma! | Drew Levy |

### 2020s

| Year | Production | Nominees |
| 2020 (74th) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2020 (74th) | A Christmas Carol | Simon Baker |
| 2020 (74th) | The Inheritance | Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid |
| 2020 (74th) | Sea Wall/A Life | Daniel Kluger |
| 2020 (74th) | Slave Play | Lindsay Jones |
| 2020 (74th) | The Sound Inside | Kluger |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2020 (74th) | Moulin Rouge! | Peter Hylenski |
| 2020 (74th) | Jagged Little Pill | Jonathan Deans |
| 2020 (74th) | Tina - The Tina Turner Musical | Nevin Steinberg |
| 2022 (75th) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2022 (75th) | Dana H. | Mikhail Fiksel |
| 2022 (75th) | for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf | Justin Ellington |
| 2022 (75th) | The Lehman Trilogy | Dominic Bilkey and Nick Powell |
| 2022 (75th) | Macbeth | Mikaal Sulaiman |
| 2022 (75th) | The Skin of Our Teeth | Palmer Hefferan |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2022 (75th) | MJ | Gareth Owen |
| 2022 (75th) | Company | Ian Dickinson for Autograph |
| 2022 (75th) | Girl from the North Country | Simon Baker |
| 2022 (75th) | Six | Paul Gatehouse |
| 2022 (75th) | A Strange Loop | Drew Levy |
| 2023 (76th) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2023 (76th) | Life of Pi | Carolyn Downing |
| 2023 (76th) | Ain't No Mo' | Jonathan Deans and Taylor J. Williams |
| 2023 (76th) | A Christmas Carol | Joshua D. Reid |
| 2023 (76th) | A Doll's House | Ben Ringham and Max Ringham |
| 2023 (76th) | Prima Facie | Ben Ringham and Max Ringham |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2023 (76th) | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Nevin Steinberg |
| 2023 (76th) | & Juliet | Gareth Owen |
| 2023 (76th) | Into the Woods | Scott Lehrer and Alex Neumann |
| 2023 (76th) | New York, New York | Kai Harada |
| 2023 (76th) | Shucked | John Shivers |
| 2024 (77th) | Sound Design in a Play | Sound Design in a Play |
| 2024 (77th) | Stereophonic | Ryan Rumery |
| 2024 (77th) | Appropriate | Will Pickens and Bray Poor |
| 2024 (77th) | Grey House | Tom Gibbons |
| 2024 (77th) | Jaja's African Hair Braiding | Stefania Bulbarella and Justin Ellington |
| 2024 (77th) | Mary Jane | Leah Gelpe |
| Sound Design in a Musical ||
| 2024 (77th) | The Outsiders | Cody Spencer |
| 2024 (77th) | Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club | Nick Lidster for Autograph |
| 2024 (77th) | Hell's Kitchen | Gareth Owen |
| 2024 (77th) | Here Lies Love | M. L. Dogg and Cody Spencer |
| 2024 (77th) | Merrily We Roll Along | Kai Harada |

## Multiple wins
### 2 Wins

* Gareth Fry
* Brian Ronan
* Nevin Steinberg

## Multiple nominations
### Historic nominations & wins

2011: Acme Sound Partners and Cricket S. Myers – Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
* Cricket S. Myers is the first woman to receive a Tony nomination for Sound Design of a Play.
2019: Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz – Hadestown
* Jessica Paz is the first woman to receive a Tony nomination for Sound Design of a Musical and the first woman to win a Tony Award for Sound Design.