Broadway music director and philanthropist Mary-Mitchell Campbell will obtain the 2026 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for her work in advocacy by way of the humanities.
Campbell, a Grammy and Drama Desk Award-winning musical director, conductor, orchestrator, composer and arranger, has led the musical division for greater than a dozen Broadway reveals, together with Dying fits him, as soon as upon a time there was a mattress And Some prefer it scorching. Beginning in 2022, Campbell additionally takes on the position of musical director of the band ENCORES! collection at New York Metropolis Middle.
Her advocacy work consists of her work as a founding member of Musicians United for Social Fairness and on the advisory board of MAESTRA, which advocates for the hiring of ladies and different underrepresented musicians. She has directed music and overseen quite a few occasions for Broadway Cares/Fairness Fights AIDS, the Critical Enjoyable Youngsters’s Community, and Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Bootcamp.
In 2006, Mary-Mitchell Campbell teamed up with a bunch of Juilliard college students to discovered Artists Striving to Finish Poverty, which helps younger artists discover their voices, which has since been renamed Arts Ignite. She stays president of the group.
“Mary-Mitchell has taken her extraordinary skills and located a method to channel them into one thing that may have an enduring impression on our neighborhood and assist form its future,” stated Heather Hitchens, president and CEO of the American Theater Wing and Jason Laks, president of the Broadway League. “Her selfless efforts earned her this yr’s Isabelle Stevenson Award, and we’re delighted to honor her on this approach.”
Previous recipients of the 2026 Tony Isabelle Stevenson Award embody Celia Keenan-Bolger, Billy Porter, Jerry Mitchell, Julie Halston, Judith Gentle, Nick Scandalios, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Stephen Schwartz, Larry Kramer, Rosie O’Donnell, Bernadette Peters, Eve Ensler and David Hyde Pierce.