Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
Tony Awards Winners List – Jesse Tyler Ferguson Wins Featured Actor For ‘Take Me Out’
deadline.comRefresh for updates Jesse Tyler Ferguson won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Take Me Out.The 75th Annual Tony Awards, airing live coast-to-coast from New York’s Radio City Music Hall on CBS and Paramount+, is being hosted by Ariana DeBose.Deadline will update this post as winners are announced.
See below for nominees, and the creative arts winners announced during the Paramount+ pre-show The Tony Awards: Act One.WINNERS LIST:Best Featured Actor/Play Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me OutWINNERS ANNOUNCED DURING ‘ACT ONE’ PRE-SHOWBest Choreography Christopher Wheeldon, MJBest Orchestrations Simon Hale, Girl From The North CountryBest Sound Design of a Play Mikhail Fiksel, Dana H.Best Sound Design of a Musical Gareth Owen, MJBest Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the TheatreSix: The Musical Music and Lyrics: Toby Marlow & Lucy MossBest Costume Design of a Play Montana Levi Blanco, The Skin of Our TeethBest Costume Design of a Musical Gabriella Slade, SIX: The MusicalBest Scenic Design of a Play Es Devlin, The Lehman TrilogyBest Scenic Design of a Musical Bunny Christie, CompanyBest Lighting Design of a Play Jon Clark, The Lehman TrilogyBest Lighting Design of a Musical Natasha Katz, MJNOMINEESFeatured Actress in a musicalJeannette 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 Jennifer Simard, CompanyBest 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 Neil Pepe, American Buffalo Les Waters, Dana H.Best Direction of a MusicalStephen
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