Jak Malone Wins 2025 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for OPERATION MINCEMEAT
Dear Bill, it seems like Jak has won! Jak Malone has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical. Malone beat out fellow nominees Brooks Ashmanskas for Smash, Jeb Brown for Dead Outlaw, Taylor Trensch for Floyd Collins, and Danny Burstein for Gypsy.
Malone won the Laurence Olivier Award for his role in Operation Mincemeat in 2024. He plays Hester Leggatt & others in the musical. Originally from Merseyside, England, he trained in acting at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and graduated in 2018. He has been involved with Operation Mincemeat since a year after graduating. This marks his Broadway debut, first Tony Award nomination and win.
The musical, which transferred to Broadway this season after a successful run in London, is a fast-paced comedy about the true story of how the Allies managed to trick the Nazis into thinking they’d invade Greece, not Sicily, in 1943. The schemers used a corpse to plant false documents in the hands of the Nazis.
Operation Mincemeat’s book, music & lyrics were written by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts. It was directed by Robert Hastie, and features orchestrations by Steve Sidwell, music direction by Joe Bunker, and choreography from Jenny Arnold. In addition to Malone’s win, Operation Mincemeat was awarded the Olivier for Best New Musical.
