Tony Award for Best Author
Tony Award for Best Author | |
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Awarded for | Best Author |
Location | United States New York City |
Presented by | American Theatre Wing The Broadway League |
Website | TonyAwards.com |
The Tony Award for Best Author is a now retired category once presented to playwrights, authors and librettists of theatrical plays and musicals. Only nine awards were presented from 1947 to 1965, and it is often grouped with the category Best Book of a Musical.
Winners and nominees
indicates the winner
1940s
Year | Author | Production |
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1947 1st Tony Awards | ||
Arthur Miller | All My Sons | |
1948 2nd Tony Awards | ||
Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan | Mister Roberts | |
1949 3rd Tony Awards | ||
Arthur Miller | Death of a Salesman | |
Samuel and Bella Spewack | Kiss Me, Kate |
1960s
Year | Author | Production |
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1962 16th Tony Awards | ||
Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | |
Michael Stewart and Helen Deutsch | Carnival! | |
1963 17th Tony Awards | ||
Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | |
Lionel Bart | Oliver! | |
Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Stop the World – I Want to Get Off | |
Neil Simon | Little Me | |
1964 18th Tony Awards | ||
Michael Stewart | Hello, Dolly! | |
Noël Coward and Harry Kurnitz | The Girl Who Came to Supper | |
Timothy Gray and Hugh Martin | High Spirits | |
Joe Masteroff | She Loves Me | |
1965 19th Tony Awards | ||
Neil Simon | The Odd Couple | |
Joseph Stein | Fiddler on the Roof | |
Edward Albee | Tiny Alice | |
Jerome Coopersmith | Baker Street | |
Beverley Cross | Half a Sixpence | |
Frank D. Gilroy | The Subject Was Roses | |
Sidney Michaels | Ben Franklin in Paris | |
Murray Schisgal | Luv |
See also
External links
- Tony Awards Official site
- Tony Awards at Internet Broadway database Listing
- Tony Awards at broadwayworld.com
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Tony Award for Best Author
- Arthur Miller (1947)
- Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan (1948)
- Arthur Miller / Bella and Samuel Spewack (1949)
- Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert (1962)
- Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart (1963)
- Michael Stewart (1964)
- Neil Simon / Joseph Stein (1965)