Tony Award — Best Play
Jewish recipients of the Tony Award — Best Play documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 38% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
21 documented recipients
Arthur Miller1949
Playwright
Source: Death of a Salesman
Dore Schary1938
Screenwriter of Boys Town (Academy Award 1938); later head of MGM
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters
Peter Weiss1916
German playwright ('Marat/Sade', 'The Investigation')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
Harold Pinter2005
Drama uncovering the precipice under everyday conversation
Source: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Literature 2005
Tom Stoppard1937
British playwright ('Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead', 'Arcadia')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
Howard Sackler
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Anthony Shaffer
Tony Award — Best Play
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Play
Peter Shaffer1926
British playwright ('Amadeus', 'Equus')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
Bernard Pomerance
Tony Award — Best Play
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Play
Mark Medoff1986
Playwright-screenwriter of Children of a Lesser God
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters
Harvey Fierstein1954
Tony Award-winning playwright and actor ('Torch Song Trilogy')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
Neil Simon1968
Prolific playwright and screenwriter (The Odd Couple, Brighton Beach Memoirs); Pulitzer Prize winner from a Bronx Jewish family.
Source: Wikipedia
Herb Gardner
Tony Award — Best Play
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Play
Wendy Wasserstein1950
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ('The Heidi Chronicles')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
Tony Kushner1956
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ('Angels in America')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
Alfred Uhry1989
Pulitzer playwright and Academy Award screenwriter of Driving Miss Daisy
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters
Yasmina Reza1959
French playwright ('Art', 'God of Carnage')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
David Auburn1969
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ('Proof')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
Richard Greenberg
Tony Award — Best Play
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Play
Robert Schenkkan
Tony Award — Best Play
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Play
David Adjmi
Tony Award — Best Play
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Play