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Your PERSONAL FAVORITE to win the 2024 Tony for Best Direction of a Musical

Maria Friedman (Merrily We Roll Along)

Michael Grief (Hell's Kitchen)

Leigh Silverman (Suffs)

Jessica Stone (Water for Elephants)

Danya Taymor (The Outsiders)

Voting ended onJun 7, 2024

2024 marks the best year for female directors to date, and while you certainly *can* vote for the only man in this lineup, I will be deeply disappointed (largely because I hated that show, but that's neither here nor there).

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Cecily Strong and Leigh Silverman in promo for Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe running at the NY Shed!

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“Lifespan of a Fact” tested a different proposition: that new parents could be accommodated by a commercial Broadway play hurtling toward opening night. “I feel like I had to make a very conscious decision not to pursue having a family, and for my female colleagues who have made that other choice, I don’t want them to be punished,” Ms. Silverman said. “I just tried to make it as easy as possible.” So she organized a phone call with the designers, and asked them for a wish list. The result: A dressing area was converted into a lactation room, with a lock, an outlet, a chair and a refrigerator so women could breast-pump. Another was set aside for a play space, so on especially grueling days the designers could bring their children, as well as someone to mind them, to the theater. The requests were made easier by the fact that the play has just a three-person cast, so there were rooms to spare backstage, and the producers readily agreed.

Taking Your Child to Work, When Your Job Is Making Theater

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Director Leigh Silverman put together Broadway's first all-female design team. Photographer Tess Mayer spent two afternoons with them at tech documenting these individuals in a room together doing their jobs at the pinnacle of American theatre. It is part of keeping an accurate record of what happen

“I hired a group of brilliant designers that I was excited to mind meld with. I had no idea an all-female design team had never been assembled on Broadway. We want to believe theatre is a place of progress, a place where women and people of color and non-binary people are welcomed into leadership positions. Well, that’s just not true—especially in commercial theatre. Except it’s happening right now at Studio 54 (including all of our assistants and associates). You walk into our production meetings at the end of the night and there are twenty or so humans talking and thinking and working and only two or three guys. We are standing on the shoulders of the fierce women who helped pave the way, and I want to acknowledge this moment while also looking forward to the day where our existence is not news.”

-Leigh Silverman, director

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Broadway's first all-female design team.

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Is this really the right time for a spate of male-authored, male-directed musicals about subservient women to come to Broadway?

#MeToo isn’t just about outing men as abusers. It’s also about dismantling a system that has forced women to be silent—about giving women space and resources, and protection, to do our work and tell our stories.

It shouldn’t be used to give problematic musicals contemporary relevance, or to sell tickets to a show, or to effectively keep women out of positions of power. This is performative wokeness: producers and directors giving lip service to the idea of diversity and equality, but doing very little to actually further the cause by, you know, hiring more women on their creative teams for shows about sexism and women, or people of color for shows about race.