Give him a standing ovation!
Hunter Theatre Department faculty David Adjmi’s smash-hit Broadway play, Stereophonic, just collected a whopping 13 2024 Tony nominations – including Best Play.
The 13 nominations place Stereophonic among the most-ever Tony-nominated plays and make Adjmi, who teaches in Hunter’s MFA Playwriting Program, a Broadway star. Stereophonic was nominated for many other awards, including the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Pulitzer.
“David has been one of my favorite playwrights from the first moment I read his work, and it’s been a great honor to teach alongside him at Hunter,” said Christine Scarfuto, the director of Hunter’s Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA Playwriting Program. “He’s an incredibly generous teacher and mentor, and I’m beyond thrilled this is happening for him!”
Stereophonic depicts the goings on at a California recording studio in 1976, as an almost-famous rock band tries to cut the record that could catapult it to superstardom – or cause its breakup. The New York Times called the play, which has original music, “a staggering achievement,” adding that it “already feels like a must-see American classic.”
Winners will be named at the 77th Annual Tony Awards, slated for June 16 at Lincoln Center.
The Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA Playwriting Program at Hunter College is a highly selective, rigorous, and affordable two-year playwriting program that has proved itself as an incubator of the nation’s top talent by seeking writers who challenge assumptions about what theatre is and will become.
