Tony Award winners

Many winners of Tony Awards have worked on Muppet projects. In particular, since Broadway and Sesame Street are both in New York City, talent rosters have frequently overlapped.
==1951==
*Ethel Merman, Best Actress in a Musical, Call Me Madam
==1952==
*José Ferrer, Best Actor in a Play, The Shrike
==1961==
*Zero Mostel, Best Actor in a Play, Rhinoceros
*Dick Van Dyke, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Bye Bye Birdie
*John Gielgud, Best Director of a Play, Big Fish, Little Fish
==1962==
*Paul Scofield, Best Actor in a Play, A Man for All Seasons
==1963==
*Zero Mostel, Best Actor in a Musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
*Alan Arkin, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Enter Laughing
*Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and others, Special Award for Beyond the Fringe
==1964==
*Carol Channing, Best Actress in a Musical, Hello, Dolly!
*Anne Revere, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Toys in the Attic
==1965==
*Zero Mostel, Best Actor in a Musical, Fiddler on the Roof
*Liza Minnelli, Best Actress in a Musical, Flora, The Red Menace
==1967==
*Joel Grey, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Cabaret
*Ian Holm, Best Featured Actor in a Play, The Homecoming
==1968==
*Leslie Uggams, Best Actress in a Musical, Hallelujah, Baby!
==1969==
*James Earl Jones, Best Actor in a Play, The Great White Hope
==1970==
*Fritz Weaver, Best Actor in a Play, Child's Play
*Cleavon Little, Best Actor in a Musical, Purlie
==1971==
*Hal Linden, Best Actor in a Musical, The Rothschilds
==1973==
*John Lithgow, Best Featured Actor in a Play, The Changing Room
==1974==
*Frances Sternhagen, Best Featured Actress in a Play, The Good Doctor
==1975==
*Geoffrey Holder, Best Direction of a Musical/Best Costume Design, The Wiz
*Ted Ross, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, The Wiz
*Frank Langella, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Seascape
*Rita Moreno, Best Featured Actress in a Play, The Ritz
==1976==
*John Wood, Best Actor in a Play, Travesties
==1978==
*Nell Carter, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Ain't Misbehavin'
==1980==
*Mandy Patinkin, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Evita
==1981==
*Ian McKellen, Best Actor in a Play, Amadeus
*Kevin Kline, Best Actor in a Musical, The Pirates of Penzance
==1982==
*Ben Harney, Best Actor in a Musical, Dreamgirls
*Michael Peters (with Michael Bennett), Best Choreography, Dreamgirls
==1983==
*Harvey Fierstein, Best Actor in a Play/Best Play (author), Torch Song Trilogy
*Judith Ivey, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Steaming
==1984==
*Glenn Close, Best Actress in a Play, The Real Thing
*Jeremy Irons, Best Actor in a Play, The Real Thing
*Harvey Fierstein, Best Book of a Musical, La Cage aux Folles
==1985==
*Derek Jacobi, Best Actor in a Play, Much Ado About Nothing
*Judith Ivey, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Hurly Burly
*Roger Miller, Best Original Score, Big River
==1986==
*Bernadette Peters, Best Actress in a Musical, Song and Dance
*Judd Hirsch, Best Actor in a Play, I'm Not Rappaport
*Lily Tomlin, Best Actress in a Play, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
*Bebe Neuwirth, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Sweet Charity
==1987==
*James Earl Jones, Best Actor in a Play, Fences
*Linda Lavin, Best Actress in a Play, Broadway Bound
==1988==
*Bill McCutcheon, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Anything Goes
*B. D. Wong, Best Featured Actor in a Play, M. Butterfly
==1989==
*Jason Alexander, Best Actor in a Musical, Jerome Robbins' Broadway
==1990==
*Tyne Daly, Best Actress in a Musical, Gypsy
*Charles Durning, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
*Michael Jeter, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Grand Hotel
==1991==
*Lea Salonga, Best Actress in a Musical, Miss Saigon
*Jonathan Pryce, Best Actor in a Musical, Miss Saigon
==1992==
*Gregory Hines, Best Actor in a Musical, Jelly's Last Jam
*Glenn Close, Best Actress in a Play, Death and the Maiden
*Judd Hirsch, Best Actor in a Play, Conversations with My Father
==1993==
*Andrea Martin, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, My Favorite Year
==1994==
*Audra McDonald, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Carousel
==1995==
*Glenn Close, Best Actress in a Musical, Sunset Boulevard
*Frances Sternhagen, Best Featured Actress in a Play, The Heiress
*John Glover, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Love! Valour! Compassion!
==1996==
*Nathan Lane, Best Actor in a Musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
*Audra McDonald, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Master Class
*Jonathan Larson, Best Book/Original Score, Rent
*Savion Glover, Best Choreography, Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk
==1997==
*Bebe Neuwirth, Best Actress in a Musical, Chicago
*Lynne Thigpen, Best Featured Actress in a Play, American Daughter
*Lillias White, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, The Life
==1998==
*Alan Cumming, Best Actor in a Musical, Cabaret
*Audra McDonald, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Ragtime
==1999==
*Martin Short, Best Actor in a Musical, Little Me
*Bernadette Peters, Best Actress in a Musical, Annie Get Your Gun
*Roger Bart, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
*Kristin Chenoweth, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
*Jason Robert Brown, Best Original Score, Parade
*Ralph Burns, Best Orchestrations, Fosse
==2000==
*Brian Stokes Mitchell, Best Actor in a Musical, Kiss Me, Kate
*Heather Headley, Best Actress in a Musical, Aida
*Elton John, Best Original Score (composer), Aida
*Don Sebesky, Best Orchestrations, Kiss Me, Kate
==2001==
*Mel Brooks, Best Book for a Musical/Original Score, The Producers
*Nathan Lane, Best Actor in a Musical, The Producers
==2002==
*Sutton Foster, Best Actress in a Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie
*Lindsay Duncan, Best Actress in a Play, Private Lives
*Ralph Burns, Best Orchestrations, Thoroughly Modern Millie
==2003==
*Harvey Fierstein, Best Actor in a Musical, Hairspray
*Marissa Jaret Winokur, Best Actress in a Musical, Hairspray
*Jane Krakowski, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Nine
==2004==
*Hugh Jackman, Best Actor in a Musical, The Boy from Oz
*Idina Menzel, Best Actress in a Musical, Wicked
*Audra McDonald, Best Actress in a Play, A Raisin in the Sun
*Bobby Lopez and Jeff Marx, Best Original Score, Avenue Q
==2005==
*Bill Irwin, Best Actor in a Play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
*Sara Ramirez, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Spamalot
*Liev Schreiber, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Glengarry Glen Ross
==2006==
*Richard Griffiths, Best Actor in a Play, The History Boys
==2007==
*David Hyde Pierce, Best Actor in a Musical, Curtains
*Frank Langella, Best Actor in a Play, Frost/Nixon
==2008==
*Lin-Manuel Miranda, Best Original Score, In the Heights
*Andy Blankenbuehler, Best Choreography, In the Heights
*Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman, Best Orchestrations, In the Heights
==2009==
*Tom Kitt, Best Original Score/Best Orchestrations, Next to Normal
==2010==
*Denzel Washington, Best Actor in a Play, Fences
*Viola Davis, Best Actress in a Play, Fences
==2011==
*Sutton Foster, Best Actress in a Musical, Anything Goes
*Bobby Lopez (with Trey Parker and Matt Stone), Best Original Score, The Book of Mormon
==2012==
*Audra McDonald, Best Actress in a Musical, Porgy and Bess
*James Corden, Best Actor in a Play, One Man, Two Guvnors
*Jack Feldman and Alan Menken, Best Original Score, Newsies
*Christopher Gattelli, Best Choreography, Newsies
==2013==
*Billy Porter, Best Actor in a Musical, Kinky Boots
*Andrea Martin, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Pippin
*Cyndi Lauper, Best Original Score, Kinky Boots
==2014==
*Neil Patrick Harris, Best Actor in a Musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
*James Monroe Iglehart, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Aladdin
*Audra McDonald, Best Actress in a Play, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
*Jason Robert Brown, Best Original Score/Orchestrations, The Bridges of Madison County
==2016==
*Lin-Manuel Miranda, Best Book/Best Original Score, Hamilton
*Leslie Odom Jr., Best Actor in a Musical, Hamilton
*Cynthia Erivo, Best Actress in a Musical, The Color Purple
*Renée Elise Goldsberry, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Hamilton
*Daveed Diggs, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Hamilton
*Frank Langella, Best Actor in a Play, The Father
*Andy Blankenbuehler, Best Choreography, Hamilton
*Alex Lacamoire, Best Orchestrations, Hamilton
==2017==
*Kevin Kline, Best Actor in a Play, Present Laughter
*Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Best Original Score, Dear Evan Hansen
*Alex Lacamoire, Best Orchestrations, Dear Evan Hansen
*Andy Blankenbuehler, Best Choreography, Bandstand
==2018==
*Tony Shalhoub, Best Actor in a Musical, The Band's Visit
*Glenda Jackson, Best Actress in a Play, Three Tall Women
*Nathan Lane, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Angels in America
*David Yazbek, Best Original Score, The Band's Visit
*Jamshied Sharifi, Best Orchestrations, The Band's Visit
==2019==
*Santino Fontana, Best Actor in a Musical, Tootsie
*André De Shields, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Hadestown
*Ali Stroker, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Oklahoma!
==2020==
*David Alan Grier, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Take Me Out
==2022==
*Simon Russell Beale, Best Lead Actor in a Play, The Lehman Trilogy
*Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Take Me Out
==2023==
*Sean Hayes, Best Lead Actor in a Play, Good Night, Oscar
==2024==
*Shaina Taub, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score, Suffs
==See also==
*Academy Award winners
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