STEREOPHONIC's Daniel Aukin Wins Best Direction

This guy knows how to make the music work! Daniel Aukin has won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Stereophonic. Aukin was honored at the 2024 Tony Awards onstage at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater. He beat out fellow nominees Anne Kauffman for Mary Jane, Kenny Leon for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch,  Lila Neugebauer for Appropriate, and Whitney White for Jaja's African Hair Braiding. 

This remarkable achievement marks Aukin’s first Tony nomination and win. Aukin made his impressive Broadway directorial debut in 2015 with the play Fool for Love. 

Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on the cusp of superstardom. The ensuing pressures could spark their breakup — or their breakthrough. In Stereophonic, Adjmi invites the audience to immerse themselves—with fly-on-the-wall intimacy—in the powder keg process of a band on the brink of blowing up.