
Nine Alumni Nominated for Tony Awards More than 20 alumni contributed to this year's Tony-nominated productions.
May 7, 2026
By
Tori Donahue
Boston Conservatory at Berklee associate alum Nicholas Christopher (09) received his first Tony nomination in the category of Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his role in the Chess revival.
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty for Tony Awards Productions
Nine alumni from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Berklee College of Music have been nominated for 2026 Tony Awards in several major categories: Best Leading Actor in a Musical, Best Orchestrations, Best Score, Best Play, Best New Musical, and Best Book of a Musical. In total, more than 20 Berklee alumni contributed to 10 Tony-nominated productions this year.
Boston Conservatory at Berklee associate alum Nicholas Christopher (09) received his first Tony nomination in the category of Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his role in the Chess revival. His performance as Anatoly Sergievsky has also been recognized with nominations from the Outer Critics Circle Awards, Drama Desk Awards, and Drama League Awards.
Three Berklee College of Music alumni were nominated in the category of Best Orchestrations: Mike Morris BM '83 was recognized for his work on Schmigadoon, while Adrianne Gonzalez BM '99 and Kyler England '00 of the Rescues were nominated for Best Orchestration and Best Score for The Lost Boys. Berklee College of Music alum Tye Blue '99 also was nominated for Best Book of a Musical as coauthor of Titan que, which he also directed.
In the category of Best Play, Berklee College of Music alumni Brian Lee BM '14 and Dayna Lee Bloom '14 were nominated as producers for Giant, while Boston Conservatory at Berklee alum Cedric Leiba Jr. (MM '05) was nominated as producer for Liberation. Berklee Online alum Paul Gavriani BPS '17 also received a nomination in the category of Best New Musical as a producer for Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across NYC).
Several additional Berklee community members contributed to this year's Tony Award-nominated productions-an ongoing list of those contributors can be found below. All individuals listed are Boston Conservatory at Berklee musical theater alumni unless otherwise noted.
Cats: The Jellicle BallBryson Battle BFA '25, Jellylorum
ChessIan Kagey BM '07 (Berklee College of Music), cast album recording engineer
The Lost BoysLiesie Kelly '25, swing, understudy for Star and Alan Frog
Hiro Iida PDM '89 (Berklee College of Music), electronic music design
RagtimeAllison Blackwell MM '04, ensemble
Ian Kagey BM '07 (Berklee College of Music), cast album recording, editing, and mixing
The Rocky Horror ShowAndrew Durand BFA '08, Brad
Michaela Jae Rodriguez '11 (Berklee College of Music), Columbia
Titan que Nick Connell BM '11 (Berklee College of Music), orchestrator, arranger, music supervisor
Sara Gallo BFA '16, swing, background vocalist/understudy for Celine
Two StrangersAlejandro Venguer BM '02 (Berklee College of Music), cast album recording engineer
The 79th Annual Tony Awards will air live on CBS and Paramount+ on Sunday, June 7 at 8 p.m.
Please note: The list above is subject to change as we receive new information. If you or someone you know from the Berklee community received a Tony Award nomination or contributed to a nominated project, please complete this form. This article will be updated to reflect new information received.
Learn more about Boston Conservatory at Berklees top-ranking BFA program in musical theater and Berklee College of Music's leading BM program.
Related Categories
News
Most Popular
Illustration by Michelle Parkos
Music Marketing: 5 Practical Strategies for Independent Artists Five ways help you build visibility, engage your audience, and grow your fanbase-including one trick to steal from Taylor Swift.
Latest
Olivia P rez-Collellmir BM 17, an assistant professor at Berklee, will premiere her composition Seven Dreams of Gaud next month in Barcelona.
Image by Samuel Pereira
Olivia P rez-Collellmir to Premiere Original Work at Gaud Centennial in Barcelona The Berklee graduate and faculty member will debut her choral symphony with 200 musicians from the London Philharmonia Orchestra and Orfe Catal on June 10.
Boston Conservatory singers, dancers, and instrumentalists performing Carmina Burana at Symphony Hall, with the Back Bay Chorale and Boston Children's Chorus
All photos by Michelle Parkos
At the Intersection of Music and Dance, an Epic Collaboration Boston Conservatory musicians and dancers found creative parallels in their recent performance of Carmina Burana at Symphony Hall, performed alongside the Back Bay Chorale.
Image by Derrel Todd
Chelsey Green Named to Billboard's 2026 Women in Music List The Berklee professor and chair of the Recording Academy Board of Trustees joins other high-profile women on this year's list, including Laufey BM '21.
Read All
Subscribe The latest sounds, stories, and ideas, sent to your inbox weekly.
Most recent headlines
05/01/2027
Worlds first 802.15.4ab-UWB chip verified by Calterah and Rohde & Schwarz to be ...
06/09/2026
June 9 2026, 23:00 (PDT) Dolby and MagentaTV Bring Fans Closer to the FIFA Worl...
04/08/2026
Dalet, a leading technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, t...
04/07/2026
April 7 2026, 19:00 (PDT) Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway Opens in...
22/06/2026
Expanded integrations give advertisers access to distinct contextual signals acr...
22/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
22/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
22/06/2026
Xilica today announced the release of Dynamic Voice Lift, a new feature in Xilica Designer v4.12 that brings adaptive speech reinforcement to large meeting spac...
22/06/2026
The next era of AI will not be defined by compute alone. Its growth will be dete...
22/06/2026
Mission, Vision and Veritas - new Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) supercom...
22/06/2026
At the ISC conference running in Hamburg this week, NVIDIA is introducing new so...
22/06/2026
For the past two years, the U.S. National Science Foundation's National Arti...
22/06/2026
JUPITER, Europe's first exascale supercomputer at Germany's Forschungszentrum J lich, runs on NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 Inf...
21/06/2026
To call the 2026 FIFA World Cup a big undertaking would be a big understatement....
21/06/2026
New series now live on Udemy
Regular SOS contributor and Cubase workshop columnist John Walden has just released a new Cubase video course that is now avail...
21/06/2026
Hot tubs sit at about 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, warm enough that most people can only soak for about 15 minutes. NVIDIA's newest AI servers can run their co...
21/06/2026
Sunday 21 June 2026
Sky announces immersive documentary series The Wargame
The Wargame first looks
ZIP (2MB)
Sky today confirms the commission of The Wargam...
20/06/2026
New add-on creates doubles & vocal stacks
IK Multimedia's latest ReSing add-on kits the innovative software out with the ability to automatically genera...
20/06/2026
What exactly is Apogee Control V3?
Control V3 is a new mixer application that controls Apogee interfaces. The new hit feature is that V3 finally allows for...
19/06/2026
Split compound eases operational challenges at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club...
19/06/2026
North Carolina, Oklahoma meet in the best-of-three Finals as ESPN leans into spe...
19/06/2026
Company launch comprehensive mix-comparison tool
The Him DSP are a plug-in company founded by The Him, an EDM DJ and producer who has amassed over half a bi...
19/06/2026
Major Sampler upgrades introduced
The latest version of Bitwig's DAW software has just entered public beta testing, and is available now for all users w...
19/06/2026
Four times the power of their predecessors
Akai Pro have just introduced upgraded versions of two of their popular standalone MPC systems, kitting them out ...
19/06/2026
Data from May shows seasonal outdoor trends triggers lower viewing
Warsaw, Pola...
19/06/2026
Buttons is best control system in the rAVe Best of Infocomm Awards 2026...
19/06/2026
Mavis Studio Makes iPad Production More Powerful
Brie Clayton June 19, 2026
0 Comments
InfoComm update brings new NDI Preview, PTZ control, USB audio ...
19/06/2026
Immersive Studio Metaverse Stage Tackles Post with Blackmagic Design
Brie Clayton June 19, 2026
0 Comments
New narrative projects rely on DaVinci Reso...
19/06/2026
How to Run the Original 1993 After Effects
Graham Quince June 19, 2026
0 Comments
How to the original After Effects v1 in an emulator, and you don'...
19/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
19/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
19/06/2026
SMPTE , the home of media professionals, technologists and engineers, has announced that its entire Standards catalog is now freely available to the global medi...
19/06/2026
nsign, the digital signage SaaS platform built around its core principle of Simplify Complexity, has announced a partnership with BrightSign , expanding the dep...
19/06/2026
Visual Productions announces the availability of its new RdmRelay2 at InfoComm 2026 (ACT Entertainment, Booth N6813). A networked, four-channel DMX relay, it is...
19/06/2026
Adobe Unveils Major Expansion of Creative Agent Across Firefly and Creative Clou...
19/06/2026
Immersive Studio Metaverse Stage Innovates Storytelling with URSA Cine Immersive
Brie Clayton June 18, 2026
0 Comments
Two new narrative short films c...
19/06/2026
Friday 19 June 2026
How to watch the 2026/27 Premier League season on Sky Sports
Which matches are Sky Sports showing on the 2026/27 Premier League opening we...
19/06/2026
Catch up on the latest developments across Baselight and Daylight v7, Nara and FilmLight API Wednesday 8 July, 5pm onwards
Firehouse: DCTV, 87 Lafayette St, Ne...
19/06/2026
Lab studies explain how new cancer drug works as it enters patient testing Immunologists at Scripps Research show how a new, experimental drug revives immune ce...
18/06/2026
Ratings Roundup is a rundown of recent rating news and is derived from press rel...
18/06/2026
PTZOptics has unveiled new Visual Reasoning demonstrations at InfoComm 2026 (Boo...
18/06/2026
IBC2026 will take place at the RAI Amsterdam from September 11-14, bringing toge...
18/06/2026
InfoComm 2026 held its first-ever Media Day on June 17, providing journalists an...
18/06/2026
FOR-A America has announced a Trade Agreements Act (TAA)-compliant LED display solution combining Alfalite's Litepix LED displays and Brompton Technology...
18/06/2026
In-venue and creative video staffers at the professional and collegiate level have one major thing in common: the intensity and attention to detail ramps up dur...
18/06/2026
The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) and TMRW Sports have an...
18/06/2026
AJA Video Systems has unveiled Io Xpand, a Thunderbolt 5-enabled PCIe expansion ...
18/06/2026
ESPN has announced its coverage plans for the 30th anniversary of the WNBA's...
18/06/2026
FOX Sports' Big Noon Kickoff will broadcast live from Wembley Stadium in Lon...
18/06/2026
InfoComm 2026 opened on Wednesday at the Las Vegas Convention Center, bringing t...