George Pierce (backstage doorman)

George Pierce
George Pierce
Occupation	Backstage doorman

George Pierce was an American

backstage doorman.^[1] He was honored the Special Tony Award at the 2nd Tony Awards.^[2]^[3]

References

Newspapers.com.

^ "Tony Awards Winners / 1948". Tony Awards. Retrieved June 25, 2022.

ISBN 9781250031761 – via Google Books
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Special Tony Award
1947–1975

Dora Chamberlain / Ira and Rita Katzenberg / Jules Leventhal / Burns Mantle / P. A. MacDonald / Vincent Sardi Sr. (1947)

Vera Allen / Paul Beisman / Joe E. Brown / Cast of The Importance of Being Earnest / Robert W. Dowling / Experimental Theatre Inc. / Rosalind Gilder / June Lockhart / Mary Martin / George Pierce / James Whitmore (1948)

No award (1949)

Maurice Evans / Philip Faversham / Brock Pemberton (1950)

Ruth Green (1951)

Charles Boyer / Judy Garland / Edward Kook (1952)

Danny Kaye / Beatrice Lillie (1953)

No award (1954)

Proscenium Productions (1955)

Fourth Street Chekov Theatre / City Center / The New York Public Library Theatre Collection / The Shakespearewrights / The Threepenny Opera (1956)

American Shakespeare Festival / Jean-Louis Barrault / Robert Russell Bennett / William Hammerstein / Joseph Harbuck / Paul Shyre (1957)

Mrs. Martin Beck / New York Shakespeare Festival (1958)

Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay / John Gielgud / Cast of La Plume de Ma Tante (1959)

Burgess Meredith and James Thurber / John D. Rockefeller III (1960)

David Merrick / The Theatre Guild (1961)

Brooks Atkinson / Richard Rodgers / Franco Zeffirelli (1962)

Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore / Irving Berlin / W. McNeil Lowry (1963)

Eva Le Gallienne (1964)

Gilbert Miller / Oliver Smith (1965)

Helen Menken (1966)

No award (1967)

APA-Phoenix Theatre / Pearl Bailey / Carol Channing / Maurice Chevalier / Marlene Dietrich / Audrey Hepburn / David Merrick (1968)

Leonard Bernstein / Carol Burnett / Rex Harrison / The National Theatre Company of Great Britain / The Negro Ensemble Company (1969)

Noël Coward / Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt / New York Shakespeare Festival / Barbra Streisand (1970)

Ingram Ash / Elliot Norton / Playbill / Roger L. Stevens (1971)

Fiddler on the Roof / Ethel Merman / Richard Rodgers / The Theatre Guild-American Theatre Society (1972)

The Actors Fund of America / John Lindsay / Shubert Organization (1973)

Actors' Equity Association / A Moon for the Misbegotten / Candide / Peter Cook and Dudley Moore / Harold Friedlander / Bette Midler / Liza Minnelli / Theatre Development Fund / John F. Wharton (1974)

Al Hirschfeld (1975)

1976–2000

George Abbott / Richard Burton / Circle in the Square Theatre / Thomas H. Fitzgerald / Mathilde Pincus (1976)

Cheryl Crawford / Equity Liberty Theatre / Barry Manilow / National Theatre of the Deaf / Diana Ross / Lily Tomlin (1977)

Irving Berlin / Stan Dragoti and Charles Moss (1978)

Walter F. Diehl / Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center / Henry Fonda / Richard Rodgers (1979)

Richard Fitzgerald / Helen Hayes / Mary Tyler Moore / Hobe Morrison (1980)

Lena Horne (1981)

Radio City Music Hall / The Actors Fund of America / Warner Communications (1982)

No award (1983)

A Chorus Line / Peter Feller / La Tragedie de Carmen (1984)

Yul Brynner / New York State Council on the Arts (1985)

No award (1986)

George Abbott / Jackie Mason (1987)

Brooklyn Academy of Music (1988)

No award (1989)

No award (1990–1992)

Oklahoma! (1993)

Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy (1994)

Carol Channing / National Endowment for the Arts / Harvey Sabinson (1995)

No award (1996)

Bernard B. Jacobs
(1997)

Edward E. Colton / Ben Edwards (1998)

Uta Hagen / Arthur Miller / Isabelle Stevenson (1999)

Dame Edna: The Royal Tour / T. Edward Hambleton (2000)

2001–present

Paul Gemignani (2001)

Julie Harris / Robert Whitehead (2002)

Cy Feuer / Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003)

James M. Nederlander (2004)

Edward Albee (2005)

Sarah Jones / Harold Prince (2006)

No award (2007)

Robert Russell Bennett / Stephen Sondheim (2008)

Jerry Herman (2009)

Alan Ayckbourn / Marian Seldes (2010)

Athol Fugard / Philip J. Smith (2011)

Actors' Equity Association / Hugh Jackman (2012)

Bernard Gersten / Ming Cho Lee / Paul Libin (2013)

Jane Greenwood (2014)

John Cameron Mitchell / Tommy Tune (2015)

Sheldon Harnick / Marshall W. Mason / National Endowment for the Arts / Miles Wilkin (2016)

James Earl Jones (2017)

John Leguizamo / Andrew Lloyd Webber / Chita Rivera / Bruce Springsteen (2018)

Rosemary Harris / Marin Mazzie / Terrence McNally / Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company / Jason Michael Webb / Harold Wheeler (2019)

The Broadway Advocacy Coalition / David Byrne's American Utopia / Freestyle Love Supreme / Graciela Daniele (2020/21)

Angela Lansbury / James C. Nicola (2022)

Joel Grey / John Kander (2023)

Alex Edelman / Abe Jacob / Nikiya Mathis / Jack O'Brien / George C. Wolfe (2024)

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[1] Newspapers.com.

[2] "Tony Awards Winners / 1948". Tony Awards. Retrieved June 25, 2022.

[3] ISBN 9781250031761 – via Google Books
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