THE TONY AWARDS EDITION!
ONLINE: Wednesday June 3, 2026 | 7:00 – 8:30pm ET
What happens behind the scenes of the Tony Awards nomination and award process? Join Dr. Barrie Gelles for an evening explaining how it all works while watching featured Tony performances and discuss famous nominations from the past 60 years!
The course materials will include archival photographs, video clips, and more! There are no required assignments and no required reading!
About the Instructor:
Dr. Barrie Gelles is a theatre scholar, educator, director, and dramaturg with a PhD in Theatre and Performance. Barrie teaches musical theatre history, theatre history, acting, directing, and public speaking at many NYC colleges; she currently teaches at Baruch College, Marymount Manhattan College, and NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. She regularly presents her research at the annual conferences of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the American Society for Theatre Research.
Barrie directs new musicals, rarely produced musicals, and re-envisioned revivals of musicals wherein she uncovers a new story while remaining loyal to the original text. At Gallery Players she has directed The Baker’s Wife, Seussical, Marry Me a Little, A New Brain, Once Upon a Mattress, Little Women, and Metamorphoses. She also created and continues to curate Overtures, a new musical developmental reading series at the Gallery Players.
“Gallery Players’s … classes, led by Barrie Gelles, are the most fun I had learning in years. Barrie is a phenomenal teacher and takes musical theater history very seriously. She leads every class with enthusiasm thus making class more than informative, but an absolute good time.” – Ayanna P.