title: List of Jewish American entertainers
Open Admissions
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Tony Award for Best Sound Design
Marian Seldes
Pam MacKinnon
Crystal Dickinson
Special Tony Award
Tony Award for Best Play
Harvey Fierstein
sentences: Persons listed with a double asterisk (**) are producers who have won the Tony Award for Best Musical and/or the Tony Award for Best Play.
 Those listed with a triple asterisk (***) have won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and/or Play.
 Those listed with a quadruple asterisk (****) have won the Tony Award for Best Actor or Best Actress in a Musical or Play.
Open Admissions is a play in two acts by Shirley Lauro that premiered in 1982 at the Long Wharf Theatre under the direction of Arvin Brown.
 The play had its Broadway debut on January 29, 1984 at the Music Box Theatre where it ran for a total of 17 performances.
 The Broadway production starred Calvin Levels as Calvin Jefferson, Marilyn Rockafellow as Ginny Carlsen, Nan-Lynn Nelson as Salina Jones, Pam Potillo as Georgia Jones, and Sloane Shelton as Professor Clare Block.
 The play depicts the travails of a professor at a second-rate college, including an unsupportive husband.
 Levels won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for both a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for his performance.
 Rockafellow also received a Drama Desk Award nomination.
 On Broadway, "Open Admissions" received a Theatre World Award, The Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
 is a play by Edward Albee first staged in 1962.
 It examines the breakdown of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George.
 Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey, as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship.
The first Tony Award for "Best Sound Design of a Play" and "Best Sound Design of a Musical" was given in the 2007-2008 season.
 In 2014, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced that starting with the 2014-2015 season the Tony Award for Best Sound Design in a Play/Musical would be eliminated.
 The Tony Administration Committee may bestow a Special Tony Award to a production when it determines that extraordinary sound design has been achieved.
Marian Hall Seldes (August 23, 1928 – October 6, 2014) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career spanned over 60 years.
 A five-time Tony Award nominee, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for "A Delicate Balance" in 1967, and received subsequent nominations for "Father's Day" (1971), "Deathtrap" (1978–82), "Ring Round the Moon" (1999), and "Dinner at Eight" (2002).
 She also won a Drama Desk Award for "Father's Day".
 Her other Broadway credits included "Equus" (1974–77), "Ivanov" (1997), and "Deuce" (2007).
 She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.
Pam MacKinnon (born January 8, 1968) is an American theatre director.
 She has directed for the stage Off-Broadway, on Broadway and in regional theatre.
 She won the Obie Award for Directing and received a Tony Award nomination, Best Director, for her work on "Clybourne Park".
 In 2013 she received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for a revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Crystal Anne Dickinson is an American actress.
 The New Jersey native graduated from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
 She made her Broadway debut in the play "Clybourne Park" written by Bruce Norris and directed by Pam MacKinnon.
The Special Tony Award category includes the Lifetime Achievement Award and Special Tony Award.
 These are non-competitive honorary awards, and the titles have changed over the years.
 The Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre is to "honor an individual for the body of his or her work."
 (The Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event was a competitive award, given from 2001 to 2009.)
 Another non-competitive Tony award is the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, to "recognize the achievements of individuals and organizations that do not fit into any of the competitive categories."
The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway in New York City.
 There was no award in the Tonys' first year. "
All My Sons" has been incorrectly categorized as the Best Play of 1947, but it won the Best Author award for Arthur Miller.
 The following year "Mister Roberts" received the first Tony Award as Best Play.
 The award goes to the authors and the producers of the play.
Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1954) is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor.
 Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play "Torch Song Trilogy" (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray".
 He also wrote the book for the musical "La Cage aux Folles", for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning "Kinky Boots".
 He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.

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 Persons listed with a double asterisk (**) are producers who have won the Tony Award for Best Musical and/or the Tony Award for Best Play.
 Those listed with a triple asterisk (***) have won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and/or Play.
 Those listed with a quadruple asterisk (****) have won the Tony Award for Best Actor or Best Actress in a Musical or Play. 

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 Open Admissions is a play in two acts by Shirley Lauro that premiered in 1982 at the Long Wharf Theatre under the direction of Arvin Brown.
 The play had its Broadway debut on January 29, 1984 at the Music Box Theatre where it ran for a total of 17 performances.
 The Broadway production starred Calvin Levels as Calvin Jefferson, Marilyn Rockafellow as Ginny Carlsen, Nan-Lynn Nelson as Salina Jones, Pam Potillo as Georgia Jones, and Sloane Shelton as Professor Clare Block.
 The play depicts the travails of a professor at a second-rate college, including an unsupportive husband.
 Levels won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for both a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for his performance.
 Rockafellow also received a Drama Desk Award nomination.
 On Broadway, "Open Admissions" received a Theatre World Award, The Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award. 

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 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
 is a play by Edward Albee first staged in 1962.
 It examines the breakdown of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George.
 Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey, as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship. 

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 The first Tony Award for "Best Sound Design of a Play" and "Best Sound Design of a Musical" was given in the 2007-2008 season.
 In 2014, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced that starting with the 2014-2015 season the Tony Award for Best Sound Design in a Play/Musical would be eliminated.
 The Tony Administration Committee may bestow a Special Tony Award to a production when it determines that extraordinary sound design has been achieved. 

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 Pam MacKinnon (born January 8, 1968) is an American theatre director.
 She has directed for the stage Off-Broadway, on Broadway and in regional theatre.
 She won the Obie Award for Directing and received a Tony Award nomination, Best Director, for her work on "Clybourne Park".
 In 2013 she received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for a revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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 The Special Tony Award category includes the Lifetime Achievement Award and Special Tony Award.
 These are non-competitive honorary awards, and the titles have changed over the years.
 The Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre is to "honor an individual for the body of his or her work."
 (The Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event was a competitive award, given from 2001 to 2009.)
 Another non-competitive Tony award is the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, to "recognize the achievements of individuals and organizations that do not fit into any of the competitive categories." 

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 The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway in New York City.
 There was no award in the Tonys' first year. "
All My Sons" has been incorrectly categorized as the Best Play of 1947, but it won the Best Author award for Arthur Miller.
 The following year "Mister Roberts" received the first Tony Award as Best Play.
 The award goes to the authors and the producers of the play. 

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 Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1954) is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor.
 Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play "Torch Song Trilogy" (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray".
 He also wrote the book for the musical "La Cage aux Folles", for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning "Kinky Boots".
 He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007. 

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Answer: Edward Albee