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
Clyde’s 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