Discover the first-time 2025 Tony Award winners on Broadway

Discover the actors, directors, designers, musicians and more who took home their first prizes at the June 8 ceremony at Radio City Music Hall.

From complete newcomers to the theatre scene to A-list stars finally making their Broadway debuts, this year's crop of first-time Tony Award winners is an exciting one. In fact, seven out of the eight actors who won in 2025 have never won before. Discover the performers, directors, designers, and more who were honored for the first time at the 2025 Tony Awards, announced on June 8, and get tickets to see them live!

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Sarah Snook

She's an Emmy winner for Succession, and Olivier winner for playing all 26 roles in The Picture of Dorian Gray in London, and now a Tony winner for doing the same in her Broadway debut. What can't Snook do?

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Darren Criss

Already a major star for Glee, American Crime Story, and numerous other screen and stage credits, it's hard to believe that Maybe Happy Ending marks Criss's first nomination — and win — for his performance as a robot who learns to live, love, and let go.

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Nicole Scherzinger

With one look, we knew Scherzinger was going to make a memorable Broadway debut as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, playing the fading film star in the critically acclaimed Tony-winning revival through July 20.

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Cole Escola

The brainchild of mad genius Escola, Oh, Mary! is elevated by Escola's now-award-winning, no-holds-barred performance as a drunken, miserable Mary Todd Lincoln. We dare you not to laugh.

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Natalie Venetia Belcon

Belcon had big shoes to fill as a dramatized version of Cuban music legend Omara Portuondo in Buena Vista Social Club — but her regal, refined, and now award-winning performance proves she did justice and then some.

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Jak Malone

For making his Broadway debut in Operation Mincemeat — and making the audience cry in the middle of the raucous comedy with his tender song "Dear Bill" — Malone made himself instantly memorable on the Broadway scene.

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Sam Pinkleton

The wonderfully weird comedy Oh, Mary! earned Pinkleton his first Tony, and it's making us all the more excited to see his take on The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Broadway this winter.

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Will Aronson and Hue Park

Aronson and Park are not just first-time winners, but dual winners for their book and score to Maybe Happy Ending, showing how all-around fantastic this robotic rom-com musical is. And that's not even to mention the Tony-winning stagecraft that brings the futuristic world on their pages to life.

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Patricia Delgado

Co-choreographing Buena Vista Social Club alongside her husband, three-time Tony winner Justin Peck, Delgado earns her first nod. Combining Cuban social dance and ballet styles, she and Peck create dance unlike anything else seen on Broadway.

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Marg Horwell

Combining period dress with modern flair, Marg Horwell made her Broadway debut with the Sarah Snook-led The Picture of Dorian Gray. Equally impressive as her colorful, hyper-detailed costumes is watching Snook quick-change between them on stage!

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Jack Knowles

The lighting designer of Sunset Boulevard plays a key role in giving this cinematic revival its film-noir effect, helped along by live camera footage in Jamie Lloyd's stripped-back revival.

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Miriam Buether

Jointly with previous Tony winner 59 Studios, Miriam Buether picked up her first Tony for the jaw-dropping set design of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, which brings the otherworldly Netflix show to the stage in ways that turn the possibilities for Broadway stagecraft upside down.

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Dane Laffrey and George Reeve

At Rise Creative, the production company run by Laffrey and Maybe Happy Ending director Michael Arden, has won Tonys for producing Broadway shows like Parade. However, Laffrey won his first Tony Award for scenic design for Maybe Happy Ending, winning jointly with video designer Reeve, whose work and Laffrey's together create the futuristic world of the robot-centered show.

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Jonathan Deans, Marco Paguia, and the Buena Vista Social Club band

Sound designer Deans, orchestrator Paguia, and the onstage band of Buena Vista Social Club (Paguia, David Oquendo, Renesito Avich, Gustavo Schartz, Javier Días, Román Diaz, Mauricio Herrera, Jesus Ricardo, Eddie Venegas, Hery Paz, and Leonardo Reyna) are responsible for taking the beloved songs from the same-named Cuban band and their iconic album and transforming them for the stage, with the electrifying rhythms making you want to get up and dance.

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Francis Jue

Yellow Face, for which Francis Jue was nominated, has closed, but the veteran stage performer can't be left off this list. Jue won for his tender performance as a father known as HYH in David Henry Hwang's farce.

Jonathan Spector

Spector not only made his Broadway debut as the author of Eureka Day, a comedy about elementary school parents debating the school's vaccine policy, but he won his first Tony Award when the show picked up Best Revival of a Play.