2nd Annual Antonyo Award Nominations Announced
2nd Annual Antonyo Awards

June 21, 2022 – Broadway Black has announced the nominees for the 2nd Annual Antonyo Awards, which honor Black theatre artists in the 2021-2022 Broadway and off-Broadway season.

Guild members are indicated with an asterisk.

2022 Antonyo Award Nominees

BEST MUSIC IN A Play

Justin Hicks, cullud wattah
Justin Ellington, Tambo & Bones
Starr Busby, On Sugarland
Alphonso Horne, Wedding Band
Bill Sims, Jr., Lackawanna Blues
Jimmy Keys, Skeleton Crew
Te’La and Kamauu, Thoughts of a Colored Man

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Michael R. Jackson*, A Strange Loop
James Posner, Daryl Waters*, Anthony Tidd, Tariq Trotter, Black No More
Masi Asare*, Paradise Square

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

John Ridley, Black No More
Kwame Kweo-Armah, The Visitor
Lynn Nottage*, Intimate Apparel
Lynn Nottage*, MJ: The Musical
[A Strange Loop won this category in 2020. Artists are ineligible for nomination if previously
won the category for the same work.
]

BEST REVIVAL

Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare with original music by Gaelynn Lea
Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau
Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress*
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith
Merry Wives, written by William Shakespeare and adapted by Jocelyn Bioh*
Skin of Our Teeth, written by Thornton Wilder with additional material by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins*
[for colored girls... won this category in 2020. Artists are ineligible for nomination if previously
won the category for the same work.
]

BEST PLAY

Clydes by Lynn Nottage*
Thoughts of a Colored Man by Kennan Scott II*
Confederates by Dominique Morisseau
What To Send Up When It Goes Down by Aleshea Harris*
Nollywood Dreams by Jocelyn Bioh*
On Sugarland by Aleshea Harris*
cullud wattah by Erika Dickerson-Despenza*

BEST MUSICAL

MJ: The Musical, book by Lynn Nottage
Paradise Square, book by Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas*, and Larry Kirwan, music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Nathan Tysen* and Masi Asare*
A Strange Loop, book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson*
Caroline
, or Change, book and lyrics by Tony Kushner*, music by Jeanine Tesori*
Intimate Apparel, libretto by Lynn Nottage*, music by Ricky Ian Gordon
Black No More, book by John Ridley, music by James Posner, Daryl Waters*, Anthony Tidd, Tariq Trotter, lyrics by Tariq Trotter