Tony winners Danny Burstein and Ruthie Ann Miles will host the 2026 Mr. Abbott Award Ceremony this March.

Presented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the celebration will be held March 23 at Gotham Hall in New York City.

Tony winner Bartlett Sher will receive the 2026 Mr. Abbott Award as previously announced. SDC awards the honor to a director or choreographer in recognition of their outstanding contributions to Broadway. The event will also include remarks from Tony Award winners Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza, Floyd Collins) and Celia Keenan-Bolger (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Gilded Age). Steven Pasquale (Here We Are, Rescue Me) will perform from The Bridges of Madison County, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award. Additional performers and speakers will be announced at a later date.

Sher is a Tony winner for his 2008 revival of South Pacific for Lincoln Center Theater, where he was recently named executive producer. His other Broadway credits include The Light in the Piazza, The King and I, My Fair Lady, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Camelot. He most recently the world premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for the Metropolitan Opera (which will get encore performances later this year) and the pre-Broadway tryout of the Dolly Parton bio-musical, Dolly: A True Original Musical.

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The writer for this years event is Tony winner J.T. Rogers. Roundabout Theatre Resident Director Miranda Haymon will direct. The producer is two-time Tony nominee and SDCF President Leigh Silverman.