British Winners At The Tony Awards 2025

South Korean musical Maybe Happy Ending was the big winner at the 78th Tony Awards last night, scooping up six prizes almost a decade after it debuted in Seoul. The production starred Helen J Shen and Darren Criss in the leading roles, with the latter beating former Glee co-star Jonathan Groff to bag the Best Actor in a Musical Tony. It’s a big win for South Korea, which has cemented its status as a global cultural powerhouse in the 21st century, infiltrating the Emmys with Squid Game and the Oscars with Parasite in recent years.

The Tony Awards are the American equivalent of the British Olivier Awards: the top prizes to recognise achievements on Broadway over the past year. Of course, here in the UK, our stage talent is world class, and the 2025 Tony Awards were even hosted by Brit Cynthia Erivo. So how did British talent fare at the 2025 awards?

Host Cynthia Erivo performs onstage during The 78th Annual Tony Awards. (© Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)

Did Any Brits Win A Tony Award In 2025?

After success at the Olivier Awards last year, legendary English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber returned to sweep the Tony Awards last night: Sunset Boulevard bagged Best Revival of a Musical, with lead star Nicole Scherzinger repeating her Olivier success and winning Best Actress in a Musical. In an emotional speech, Scherzinger called working with Lloyd Webber an ‘honour’, and thanked the show’s British director Jamie Lloyd (who lost his Best Direction of a Musical prize to Michael Arden for Maybe Happy Ending) for seeing something in her ‘no one else did’. ‘You have given us all new ways to dream and you have changed my life forever,’ she said. Co-star and English actor Tom Francis was also nominated for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, but missed out to Darren Criss for Maybe Happy Ending.

Elsewhere, though British writing troupe SplitLip’s two-time Olivier Award winning musical Operation Mincemeat just missed out on Best Musical, British stage star Jak Malone went home with a trophy: Best Featured Actor in a Musical (the US equivalent of ‘Supporting Actor’).

British play The Hills of California (ironically set in Blackpool, written by Jez Butterworth and directed by Sam Mendes) was nominated for three prizes but sadly didn’t win any. Further honorary mentions include Northern Irish stars Louis McCartney (who was nominated for Best Leading Actor for the Broadway transfer of Stranger Things: The First Shadow) and Laura Donnelly (who received a Best Leading Actress nomination for The Hills of California).

Further success foreshadowed at the Olivier Awards includes Sarah Snook’s Best Actress prize for her performance in Kip Williams’ one-actor-26-roles adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Jamie Lloyd and Andrew Lloyd Webber accept the Best Revival of a Musical award for “Sunset Blvd.” onstage during The 78th Annual Tony Awards. (© Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)

Tony Awards 2025: Full Winners List

Best Musical

• Buena Vista Social Club
• Dead Outlaw
• Death Becomes Her
• Maybe Happy Ending – WINNER
• Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical

Best Play

• English
• The Hills Of California
• John Proctor Is The Villain
• Oh, Mary!
• Purpose – WINNER

Best Revival Of A Play

• Eureka Day – WINNER
• Romeo + Juliet
• Our Town
• Yellow Face

Best Revival Of A Musical

• Floyd Collins
• Gypsy
• Pirates! The Penzance Musical
• Sunset Boulevard – WINNER

Best Actress In A Musical

• Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her
• Audra Mcdonald, Gypsy
• Jasmine Amy Rogers, Boop! The Musical
• Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard – WINNER
• Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her

Best Actor In A Musical

• Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending – WINNER
• Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw
• Tom Francis, Sunset Boulevard
• Jonathan Groff, Just In Time
• James Monroe Iglehart, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
• Jeremy Jordan, Floyd Collins

Best Actress In A Play

• Laura Donnelly, The Hills Of California
• Mia Farrow, The Roommate
• Latanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose
• Sadie Sink, John Proctor Is The Villain
• Sarah Snook, The Picture Of Dorian Gray – WINNER

Best Actor In A Play

• George Clooney, Good Night, And Good Luck
• Cole Escola, Oh, Mary! – WINNER
• Jon Michael Hill, Purpose
• Daniel Dae Kim, Yellow Face
• Harry Lennix, Purpose
• Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Best Direction Of A Musical

• Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club
• Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending – WINNER
• David Cromer, Dead Outlaw
• Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
• Jamie Lloyd, Sunset Boulevard

Best Direction Of A Play

• Knud Adams, English
• Sam Mendes, The Hills Of California
• Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary! – WINNER
• Danya Taymor, John Proctor Is The Villain
• Kip Williams, The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Best Supporting Actress In A Musical

• Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club – WINNER
• Julia Knitel, Dead Outlaw
• Gracie Lawrence, Just In Time
• Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical
• Joy Woods, Gypsy

Best Supporting Actor In A Musical

• Brooks Ashmanskas, Smash
• Jeb Brown, Dead Outlaw
• Danny Burstein, Gypsy
• Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical – WINNER
• Taylor Trensch, Floyd Collins

Best Supporting Actress In A Play

• Tala Ashe, English
• Jessica Hecht, Eureka Day
• Marjan Neshat, English
• Fina Strazza, John Proctor Is The Villain
• Kara Young, Purpose – WINNER

Best Supporting Actor In A Play

• Glenn Davis, Purpose
• Gabriel Ebert, John Proctor Is The Villain
• Francis Jue, Yellow Face – WINNER
• Bob Odenkirk, Glengarry Glen Ross
• Conrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary!