{"id":508,"date":"2025-06-10T12:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2025-06-13T09:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:47:42","slug":"18-alumni-take-home-tony-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/18-alumni-take-home-tony-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"18 alumni take home Tony Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NYU alumni secured best play and best new musical at this year\u2019s Tony Awards \u2014 two of the night\u2019s top honors, and just a couple of the 22 total awards won by former Violets for content, design and production.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sunday ceremony named 18 alumni across five NYU schools. Among the big winners were Steinhardt alum Hue Park and Tisch alum Will Aronson, who wrote the musical \u201c<\/span>Maybe Happy Ending<\/span><\/a>.\u201d The pair was credited for three Tonys out of the show\u2019s six total \u2014 which made it the most awarded production this season with best musical, original score and book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI met Hue when he was studying at NYU as an international student,\u201d Aronson said in his acceptance speech for best book. \u201cAnd it changed my life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The musical is running at the Belasco Theatre and follows two humanoid robots in a futuristic South Korea who fall in love. It also picked up awards for lead actor Darren Criss, director Michael Arden and set designers Dane Laffery and George Reeve.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to blend Korean indie pop, American jazz, modern classical and traditional Broadway \u2014 a melting pot of sensibilities,\u201d Park said when accepting the award for best original score. \u201cAnd we are so grateful the Broadway community has embraced us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Purpose<\/span><\/a>\u201d won best play and best featured actress for Kara Young\u2019s performance. Written by Performance Studies alum Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner follows the reunion of a prominent Black political family. In his speech, Jacobs-Jenkins highlighted the role of regional theaters in nurturing new works. \u201cPurpose\u201d got its start at Chicago\u2019s Steppenwolf Theatre Company.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of great stuff happens in New York, but a lot happens out in other regions,\u201d Jacobs-Jenkins said. \u201cSo use your next commercial break to Google \u2018a local theater near me.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tisch alum Sam Pinkleton won the best director of a play award for \u201c<\/span>Oh, Mary!<\/span><\/a>,\u201d the hit show putting a campy twist on Mary Todd Lincoln\u2019s life leading up to her husband\u2019s assassination. The\u00a0 play\u2019s writer and star Cole Escola also won for their performance as Mary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tisch alum Paul Tazewell earned best costume design for his work on \u201cDeath Becomes Her,\u201d directly following his <\/span>historic Oscar win<\/span><\/a> for costuming the movie musical \u201c<\/span>Wicked<\/span><\/a>.\u201d Nominated against two other Tisch alumni, this was Tazewell\u2019s tenth Tony nomination for costume design and his second win.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat Black, queer little boy in Akron, Ohio, had no idea that in 2025 he would have the year he would have,\u201d Tazewell said during his speech.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alumni, faculty and one current student earned <\/span>61 nominations across 17 categories<\/span><\/a> total at this year\u2019s ceremony. Nominations spanned the Tisch School of the Arts, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, College of Arts & Science, School of Law, Gallatin School of Individualized Study and Stern School of Business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for feeling joy,\u201d Pinkleton said in his speech. \u201cThis is a thing we can do. We can bring joy to people at the end of a crappy day, and that feels like a big deal to me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Ethan Li at arts@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

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NYU alumni secured best play and best new musical at this year\u2019s Tony Awards \u2014 two of the night\u2019s top honors, and just a couple of the 22 total awards won by former Violets for content, design and production. The Sunday ceremony named 18 alumni across five NYU schools. Among the big winners were Steinhardt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greencarsnow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}