Several Lewis Center faculty members and Princeton University alumni have been nominated for 2024 Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards for their recent work on and off-Broadway.
2024 Tony Award Nominations
- Best Lighting Design of a Play — Director of Program in Theater & Music Theater Jane Cox for Appropriate
- Best Lighting Design of a Play — Princeton Atelier Visiting Lecturer Jiyoun Chang for Stereophonic
- Best Lighting Design of a Musical – Lecturer, former Princeton Arts Fellow, and Princeton alum David Bengali ’04 for Water for Elephants (with Bradley King)
- Best Choreography – Princeton alum Jeff Kuperman ’12 for The Outsiders (with Rick Kuperman)
- Best Play Revival – Appropriate by LCA Advisory Council Member and Princeton alum Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ’06
- Best Scenic Design of a Play — An Enemy of the People and Appropriate by the design collective dots, comprised of Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk, and Kimie Nishikawa, past lecturers in theater
Read the full list of 2024 Tony Award Nominations
2024 Drama Desk Award Nominations
- Outstanding Music — Past Princeton Atelier Visiting Lecturer Jason Robert Brown for The Connector (this musical was developed in part in a fall 2018 Princeton Atelier course in partnership with McCarter Theatre)
- Outstanding Lyrics — Jason Robert Brown for The Connector
- Outstanding Lighting Design of a Play — Director of Program in Theater & Music Theater Jane Cox for Appropriate (Winner of the 2024 Drama Desk Award!)
- Outstanding Choreography — Princeton alum Jeff Kuperman ’12 (with Rick Kuperman) for The Outsiders
- Outstanding Musical – The Connector by Jason Robert Brown
- Outstanding Revival of a Play – Appropriate by LCA Advisory Council Member and Princeton alum Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ’06 (Winner of the 2024 Drama Desk Award!)
- Outstanding Orchestrations — Princeton alum Andrea Grody ’11, vocal arrangements for Suffs (with Michael Starobin & Shaina Taub)
- Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play — Appropriate by the design collective dots, comprised of Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk, and Kimie Nishikawa, past lecturers in theater
