Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play has been given since 1960. Before 1960 there was only one award for both play direction and musical direction, then in 1960 the award was split into two categories: Dramatic and Musical. In 1976 the Dramatic category was renamed to Play. For pre-1960 direction awards please reference Tony Award for Best Director.
Multiple wins
; 6 Wins; 3 Wins
; 2 Wins
- Peter Brook
- Stephen Daldry
- John Dexter
- Marianne Elliott
- Gerald Gutierrez
- Peter Hall
- Sam Mendes
- Jack O'Brien
- Gene Saks
Multiple nominations
; 10 Nominations; 8 Nominations
; 6 Nominations
; 5 Nominations
; 4 Nominations
; 3 Nominations
- Stephen Daldry
- Gordon Davidson
- Howard Davies
- John Dexter
- Marianne Elliott
- Michael Grandage
- Gerald Gutierrez
- Sam Mendes
- Trevor Nunn
- José Quintero
- Jerry Zaks
- Joseph Anthony
- A. J. Antoon
- Melvin Bernhardt
- Peter Brook
- Arvin Brown
- John Caird
- Scott Ellis
- Richard Eyre
- Robert Falls
- Athol Fugard
- John Gielgud
- Rupert Goold
- Ulu Grosbard
- Tyrone Guthrie
- Joseph Hardy
- Ivo van Hove
- Doug Hughes
- Garry Hynes
- Nicholas Hytner
- Pam MacKinnon
- Jamie Lloyd
- Patrick Marber
- Robert Moore
- Arthur Penn
- Stephen Porter
- Ellis Rabb
- Anna D. Shapiro
- John Tiffany
- Clifford Williams
- Noel Willman
Female winners
Only 6 women have won this award:- Garry Hynes – The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- Mary Zimmerman – Metamorphoses
- Anna D. Shapiro – August: Osage County
- Pam MacKinnon – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? revival
- Marianne Elliott – War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, making her the only woman to win this award more than once
- Rebecca Taichman – ''Indecent''