BEST OF THE DECADE: 2010s Career Theater People

Our Best of the Decade series continues this week with a look ten theater professionals who made their mark and established a full Broadway career during the 2010's. These are actors, designers, writers, directors and producers have given us hours of lifetime memories that span the gamut of comedy and drama, play and musical. They've been critically acclaimed and embraced by the audiences they serve. The best part is that all of them have, we hope, decades ahead of them to continue pushing the boundaries of the art form we love.

BEST OF THE DECADE:

Career Theater People of the  2010s

  

    

Miriam Buether (Designer)

5 Broadway productions

2 Tony Award nominations - Best Scenic Design of a Play - Three Tall Women, To Kill a Mockingbird

    

Marianne Elliott (Director, Producer)

3 Broadway productions

4 Tony Award nominations - Best Revival of a Play - Angels in America (winner); Best Director of a Play - War Horse (winner), The Curious Incident of the Dog on the Night-Time (winner), Angels in America

    

    

Joshua Henry (Actor)

6 Broadway productions

3 Tony Award nominations - Best Featured Actor - Violet; Best Actor in a Musical - The Scottsboro Boys, Carousel

      

Jeremy Jordan (Actor)

4 Broadway productions

1 Tony Award nomination - Best Actor in a Musical - Newsies: The Musical

Theatre World Award - 2012

    

  

Rob McClure (Actor)

5 Broadway productions

1 Tony Award nomination - Best Actor in a Musical - Chaplin

Theatre World Award - 2013

  

Patina Miller (Actor)

2 Broadway productions

2 Tony Award nominations - Best Actress in a Musical - Sister Act, Pippin (winner)

    

    

Jessie Mueller (Actor)

6 Broadway productions

4 Tony Award nominations - Best Featured Actress in a Musical - On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Best Actress in a Musical - Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (winner), Waitress, Carousel

Theatre World Award - 2012

  

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Composer/Lyricists)

2 Broadway productions

2 Tony Award nominations - Best Score of a Musical - A Christmas Story: The Musical, Dear Evan Hansen (winner)

      

    

Diane Paulus (Director, Producer)

7 Broadway productions

4 Tony Award nominations: Best Musical - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Best Direction of a Musical - Hair*, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, Pippin (winner)

    

      

Alex Timbers (Director, Writer)

7 Broadway Shows

2 Tony Award nominations: Best Direction of a Play - Peter and the Starcatcher, Best Book of a Musical - Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

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