Massachusetts Artists Leaders Coalition

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Reinstate Sound Design for the Tony Awards!

Sound Design Petition link
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“The theater world was shocked…”

You may have heard that the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced on June 11 that the Sound Design category was being dropped as an award.

The theater world was shocked by a sudden end-of-season decision announced by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. A June 12 piece in the New York Times summarized the story and offered on- and off-the-record reflections and statements. ~ Martha Steketee, Tony Awards Decision on Sound Design: Getting to the Reversal

Read the full interview by Martha Steketee of HowRound with Cecilia Friederichs, National Business Agent for United Scenic Artists, Local 829, IATSE, and Fitz Patton, Chance publisher and sound designer, to help you understand why sound design is absolutely vital to theater and how sound design emerged as an award in 2008.

Sign the petition to Reinstate the Tony Awards Categories for Sound Design Now!

 

[blockquote align=”none” cite=”~Fitz Patton”]If you undertake to have an award, and there isn’t anyone who is involved in theater on any level—producing it, or making it—that thinks that sound shouldn’t have a Tony.[/blockquote]