Jewish Recipients of the Tony Award for Best Play

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Listed below are recipients of the Tony Award for Best Play who were, or are, Jewish (or of partial Jewish descent, as noted). For lists of Jewish novelists, playwrights, poets, and other Jewish writers, see Jews in Literature.

Arthur Miller (1947), All My Sons
Arthur Miller (1949), Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller (1953), The Crucible
Dory Schary (1958), Sunrise at Campobello
Peter Weiss¹ (1966), Marat/Sade
Harold Pinter (1967), The Homecoming
Sir Tom Stoppard (1968), Rosencrantz & Guidenstern Are Dead
Howard Sackler (1969), The Great White Hope
Anthony Shaffer (1971), Sleuth
Peter Shaffer (1975), Equus
Sir Tom Stoppard (1976), Travesties
Bernard Pomerance (1979), The Elephant Man
Mark Medoff (1980), Children of a Lesser God
Peter Shaffer (1981), Amadeus
Harvey Fierstein (1983), Torch Song Trilogy
Sir Tom Stoppard (1984), The Real Thing
Neil Simon (1985), Biloxy Blues
Herb Gardner (1986), I'm Not Rappaport
Wendy Wasserstein (1989), The Heidi Chronicles
Neil Simon (1991), Lost in Yonkers
Tony Kushner 1993), Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Tony Kushner 1994), Angels in America: Perestroika
Alfred Uhry (1997), The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Yasmina Reza (1998), 'Art'
David Auburn² (2001), Proof
Richard Greenberg (2003), Take Me Out
Sir Tom Stoppard (2007), The Coast of Utopia
Yasmina Reza (2009), God of Carnage
Robert Schenkkan ³ (2014), All the Way
Sir Tom Stoppard (2023), Leopoldstadt
David Adjmi (2024), Stereophonic

NOTES
1. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
2. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
3. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.

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