Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play has been given since 1960. Before 1960 there was only one award for both play direction and musical direction, then in 1960 the award was split into two categories: Dramatic and Musical. In 1976 the Dramatic category was renamed to Play. For pre-1960 direction awards please reference Tony Award for Best Director.

Winners and nominees
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Multiple wins

 * 6 Wins
 * Mike Nichols


 * 3 Wins
 * Jerry Zaks


 * 2 Wins
 * Peter Brook
 * Stephen Daldry
 * John Dexter
 * Marianne Elliott
 * Gerald Gutierrez
 * Peter Hall
 * Sam Mendes
 * Jack O'Brien
 * Gene Saks

Multiple nominations

 * 10 Nominations
 * Mike Nichols


 * 8 Nominations
 * Peter Hall
 * Daniel J. Sullivan


 * 6 Nominations
 * George C. Wolfe


 * 5 Nominations
 * Joe Mantello
 * Marshall W. Mason
 * Lloyd Richards
 * Alan Schneider
 * Bartlett Sher
 * Matthew Warchus


 * 4 Nominations
 * Michael Blakemore
 * Kenny Leon
 * David Leveaux
 * Gregory Mosher
 * Jack O'Brien
 * Gene Saks


 * 3 Nominations
 * Stephen Daldry
 * Gordon Davidson
 * Howard Davies
 * John Dexter
 * Marianne Elliott
 * Michael Grandage
 * Gerald Gutierrez
 * Trevor Nunn
 * José Quintero
 * Jerry Zaks


 * 2 Nominations
 * Joseph Anthony
 * A. J. Antoon
 * Melvin Bernhardt
 * Peter Brook
 * Arvin Brown
 * John Caird
 * Scott Ellis
 * Richard Eyre
 * Robert Falls
 * Athol Fugard
 * John Gielgud
 * Rupert Goold
 * Ulu Grosbard
 * Tyrone Guthrie
 * Joseph Hardy
 * Ivo van Hove
 * Doug Hughes
 * Garry Hynes
 * Nicholas Hytner
 * Pam MacKinnon
 * Jamie Lloyd
 * Patrick Marber
 * Sam Mendes
 * Robert Moore
 * Arthur Penn
 * Stephen Porter
 * Ellis Rabb
 * Anna D. Shapiro
 * John Tiffany
 * Clifford Williams
 * Noel Willman

Female winners
Only 6 women have won this award:


 * Garry Hynes – The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1998)
 * Mary Zimmerman – Metamorphoses (2002)
 * Anna D. Shapiro – August: Osage County (2008)
 * Pam MacKinnon – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? revival (2013)
 * Marianne Elliott – War Horse (2011) (shared with Tom Morris) and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2015), making her the only woman to win this award more than once
 * Rebecca Taichman – Indecent (2017)