Using the Tony Awards’ official categories as a guide, here’s my favorite play work — new shows and revivals alike — of the 2019-2020 (non-Broadway) theatre season:

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ACTRESS

1. Deirdre O’Connell, Dana H. / Before the Meeting
2. Emily Davis, Is This A Room
3. Emily Cass McDonnell, The Thin Place
4. Zoë Coombs Marr & Ursula Martinez & Adrienne Truscott, Wild Bore
5. Mandi Masden, A Raisin in the Sun
6. Patrice Johnson Chevannes, runboyrun & IN OLD AGE / Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
7. Judith Ivey, Greater Clements
8. Jess Thom, Not I
9. Jules Latimer, Paris
10. Kate Mulgrew, The Half-Life of Marie Curie
11. Sabina Zúñiga Varela, Mojada 
12. Alice Ripley, The Pink Unicorn

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SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. S. Epatha Merkerson, A Raisin in the Sun
2. Brenda Wehle, The Michaels 
3. Amelia Workman, Fefu and Her Friends
4. Crystal Finn, King Philip’s Head Is Still on That Pike Just Down the Road
5. Randy Danson, The Thin Place
6. Maryann Plunkett, The Michaels
7. Adina Verson, Wives
8. Vanessa Aspillaga, Mojada
9. Haviland Morris, The Michaels
10. Sas Goldberg, Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow

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ACTOR

1. Edmund Donovan, Greater Clements
2. Jamyl Dobson & Leland Fowler & Edward Mawere, one in two
3. Pete Simpson, Is This A Room
4. Daniel Kitson, Keep
5. Michael Benjamin Washington, Fires in the Mirror
6. Bruce McKenzie, White Noise
7. Laurenz Laufenberg, History of Violence
8. Oseloka Obi & James Russell-Morley, The End of Eddy
9. Aaron Monaghan, DruidShakespeare: Richard III
10. Terry O’Donovan, User Not Found

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SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Renato Schuch, History of Violence
2. Jay O. Sanders, The Michaels
3. Stephen Barker Turner, The Plot
4. David Wohl, Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson
5. Maurice Jones, Sunday
6. Jordan Baum, PATHETIC

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COSTUMES

1. Kyoko Fujitani, Eraser Mountain
2. Montana Levi Blanco, Fefu and Her Friends
3. Danielle Brustman, Wild Bore
4. Francis O’Connor, DruidShakespeare: Richard III
5. Soutra Gilmour, Timon of Athens
6. Shio Otani, The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
7. Barbara Erin Delo, Sincerity Forever
8. Ben Pacey, Not I
9. Valérie Thérèse Bart, Wives

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DIRECTOR

1. Robert O’Hara, A Raisin in the Sun
   • And Slave Play on Broadway!
2. Les Waters, Dana H. / The Thin Place
3. Toshiki Okada, Eraser Mountain
4. Tina Satter, Is This A Room
5. Daniel Fish, White Noise
6. Stevie Walker-Webb, one in two
7. Zoë Coombs Marr & Ursula Martinez & Adrienne Truscott, Wild Bore
8. Lileana Blain-Cruz, Fefu and Her Friends / Anatomy of a Suicide
9. Richard Nelson, The Michaels
10. Thomas Ostermeier, History of Violence
11. Machel Ross, Black Exhibition
12. Trip Cullman, Before the Meeting
13. Bruce Gladwin, The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
14. Saheem Ali, Fires in the Mirror
15. Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone, Manmade Earth
16. Kristan Seemel, Bad Penny

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LIGHTING

1. Isabella Byrd, Heroes of the Fourth Turning
2. Mark Barton, The Thin Place
3. Stacey Derosier, White Noise
4. Thomas Dunn, Is This A Room
5. Sascha van Riel, Queens Row
6. Koji Osako, Antigone
7. Cha See, one in two
8. Paul Toben, Dana H.
9. Alex Jainchill, A Raisin in the Sun
10. Jen Schriever, Before the Meeting
11. Kat McGee, A Hunger Artist
12. James F. Ingalls, Ghosts
13. Masayoshi Takada, Eraser Mountain
14. Daisy Long, Bad Penny
15. Cheyenne Sykes, Black Exhibition
16. José Luis Cifuentes, Feos
17. Alan C. Edwards, Fires in the Mirror
18. Ben Pacey, Not I
19. Zia Bergin-Holly, User Not Found
20. Jiyoun Chang, Anatomy of a Suicide
21. Eric Southern & Deb O, Manmade Earth

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SCORE

1. Bobby Previte, White Noise
2. LaFrae Sci, The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker
3. David Coulter, Ghosts
4. Martha Redbone, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
5. Deborah Abramson, Little Women
6. Nils Ostendorf, History of Violence
7. Sanae Yamada, Is This A Room
8. Hiroko Tanakawa, Antigone
9. Michael Costagliola, Manmade Earth

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SET

1. Teppei Kaneuji, Eraser Mountain
2. Clint Ramos, A Raisin in the Sun
3. Andrew Leiberman, White Noise
4. Adam Rigg, Fefu and Her Friends
5. Daniel Soule, for all the women who thought they were Mad
6. Mark Wendland, Before the Meeting
7. Junpei Kiz, Antigone 
8. Eric Southern & Deb O, Manmade Earth
9. Arnulfo Maldonado, one in two
10. Danielle Brustman, Wild Bore
11. Jian Jung, Bad Penny
12. Dane Laffrey, Ghosts
13. Sarah Karl, The Plot
14. Parker Lutz, Is This A Room
15. Andrew Boyce, Dana H.
16. Andrew Moerdyk, You Never Touched the Dirt
17. Mimi Lien, The Thin Place
18. Dane Laffrey, Greater Clements
19. Julian Crouch, Curse of the Starving Class
20. Arnulfo Maldonado, Fires in the Mirror
21. Bob Cousins, Medea
22. Laura Jellinek, Heroes of the Fourth Turning
23. Frank J. Olivia, Sincerity Forever

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SOUND

1. Mikhail Fiksel, Dana H. / Mojada
2. Raku Nakahara, Eraser Mountain
3. Eric Sluyter, White Noise
4. Lee Kinney & Sanae Yamada, Is This A Room
5. Christian Frederickson, The Thin Place
6. Yaniv Fridel, User Not Found
7. Tomás Arias, Feos
8. Justin Ellington, one in two
9. Wild Bore
10. Scott Lehrer, The Michaels
11. Elisheba Itoop, A Raisin in the Sun
12. Keenan Hurley, Bad Penny
13. Ben Williams, PATHETIC
14. Beth Lake, Ghosts