Earlier this week, the 2013 Tony awards nominations were announced. Nora Ephron received a posthumous nomination for Best Play for Lucky Guy. Iconic pop star, Cyndi Lauper, was nominated for Best Original Score for Kinky Boots (which led the pack with 13 nominations). And Diane Paulus was nominated for Best Director of a Musical for Pippin, which is her third Best Director Tony nomination. Other women directors who have received as many nominations as Paulus include Susan Stroman and Kathleen Marshall. 

A low point in the nominations is that no women were included in any of the honorary awards this year and the nominators also overlooked Bette Midler for her terrific performance as Sue Mengers in I’ll Eat You Last.

The Tony Awards will air on June 9.

Here are all the women nominated this year.

Best Play

Lucky Guy, Author: Nora Ephron

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Hands on a Hardbody, Music: Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green, Lyrics: Amanda Green

Kinky Boots, Music & Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place

Amy Morton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Holland Taylor, Ann

Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Stephanie J. Block, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Carolee Carmello, Scandalous

Valisia LeKae, Motown The Musical

Patina Miller, Pippin

Laura Osnes, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Carrie Coon, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Shalita Grant, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Judith Ivey, The Heiress

Judith Light, The Assembled Parties

Condola Rashad, The Trip to Bountiful

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Annaleigh Ashford, Kinky Boots

Victoria Clark, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

Andrea Martin, Pippin

Keala Settle, Hands on a Hardbody

Lauren Ward, Matilda The Musical

Best Direction of a Play

Pam MacKinnon, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Direction of a Musical

Diane Paulus, Pippin

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

Anna Louizos, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Best Costume Design of a Play

Ann Roth, The Nance

Catherine Zuber, Golden Boy

Best Costume Design of a Musical

Dominique Lemieux, Pippin

Best Lighting Design of a Play

Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, Lucky Guy

Jennifer Tipton, The Testament of Mary

‘Kinky Boots’ Leads With 13 Tony Nominations; Tom Hanks Gets
Nod for ‘Lucky Guy’ (The New York Times)

Nominees 2013 (Tony Awards)