The Tony Awards and the Sorority Women Who Have Won One

Sorority women who have won Tony Awards include:

Agnes DeMille, Kappa Alpha Theta, 1947 Choreographer, Brigadoon, and 1993 special Tony Award for OKLAHOMA!

Patricia Neal, Pi Beta Phi, 1947 Actress, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic), Another Part of the Forrest

Sada Thompson, Kappa Alpha Theta, 1972, Twigs

Betty Buckley, Zeta Tau Alpha, 1983 Actress, Featured Role (Musical), Cats

Kristin Chenoweth, Gamma Phi Beta, 1999 Actress, Featured Role (Musical), You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Eileen Heckart, Pi Beta Phi, 2000 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre

Michele Pawk, Kappa Kappa Gamma, 2003 Best Featured Role (Dramatic), Hollywood Arms. 

Phylicia Rashad, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, 2004 Actress (Play), A Raisin in the Sun

Alice Ripley, Delta Gamma, 2009 Actress (Musical), Next to Normal

Jane Bergerman Bergere, Gamma Phi Beta, Producer, 2012 Play Clybourne Park, 2013 Musical Kinky Boots 

Cicely Tyson, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, 2013 Actress (Play), The Trip to Bountiful

Kelli O’Hara, Gamma Phi Beta, 2015 Actress (Musical), The King and I

Renée Elise Goldsberry, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Actress (Musical) 2016, Hamilton

Phylicia Rashad, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, 2023 Actress (Play), Skeleton Crew

Sorority women who have been nominated but haven’t won (yet) include: Kathy Bates, Alpha Delta Pi;  Carrie Coon, Alpha Delta Pi; Dana Ivey, Phi Mu; Mary Beth Peil, Gamma Phi Beta; Susan Browning, Kappa Alpha Theta; Jane Connell, Kappa Alpha Theta; and Kim Stanley, Kappa Kappa Gamma.

In the 1920s, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Kappa Alpha Theta, wrote the original play, Chicago, a musical which has won several Tonys.

Kelli O’Hara and Kristin Chenoweth are alumnae of the same chapter of Gamma Phi Beta, the Beta Omicron Chapter at Oklahoma City University. Their time as collegians did not overlap.

The Tony Awards are named for Antoinette Perry, actress, director, producer and leader of the American Theatre Wing. She passed away shortly before the first award ceremony. It was held on April 6, 1947, Easter Sunday, in the Waldorf Astoria’s Grand Ballroom.

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