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If you’re wondering where you’ve heard the names of many of the actors, writers, directors and designers recently nominated for 2024 , you’ve probably seen projects they’ve been involved with in Connecticut, particularly at .

Playwright Amy Herzog is nominated for Best Play for the Broadway production of “Mary Jane.” That play, with a different cast but the same director (Anne Kauffman) had its world premiere at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 2017. The Rep has produced several other Herzog plays, including “Belleville” and her student thesis project “The Wendy Play.” The playwright is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama (now the David Geffen School of Drama) and has also taught there.

David Adjmi, the playwright responsible for the most nominated show of the year, “Stereophonic,” had two of his earlier plays receive outstanding productions at the Yale Rep: The horrific romance “The Evildoers” in 2008 and the abstract historical drama “Marie Antoinette” in 2012. Both were world premieres.

Another Best Play nominee, Paul Vogel, got the Tony nod for her semi-autobiographical “Mother Play.” Vogel’s “Indecent” had its world premiere at the Yale Rep in 2015 and her “A Civil War Christmas” had its world premiere at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre in 2008. “Indecent” was done more recently at Playhouse on Park in 2023 and “A Civil War Christmas” was done at UConn’s Connecticut Repertory Theatre in 2018. There have been numerous productions of Vogel’s “The Baltimore Waltz” around the state over the years. Vogel taught at Yale’s drama school and served as the head of its playwriting program.

Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ “Appropriate” is considered a revival in terms of Tony consideration because although it’s new to Broadway the script had a previous New York run and has had many regional productions over the past decade or so, starting with the Actors Theatre in Louisville in Kentucky in 2013. One of those regional productions was at Westport Country Playhouse in 2017. Jacobs-Jenkins was also responsible for the astounding “Girls,” a modern multi-media adaptation of Euripides’ “The Bacchae” at Yale Rep in 2019 as well as the domestic drama “War” in 2014.

Lila Neugebauer, nominated for directing the Broadway “Appropriate,” was a Yale undergraduate English major.

Adam Rapp is nominated for Best Book of a Musical for “The Outsiders.” Rapp’s Connecticut connections include a 2021 streaming production of his “The Sound Inside,” done by TheaterWorks 蜜聊直播 during the COVID shutdown. He has also taught at Yale.

Composer Adam Guettel, nominated for “The Days of Wine and Roses,” went to Yale University and later taught there.

Timo Andres, nominated for doing the clever orchestrations for the Broadway adaptation of Sufjan Stevens’ indie rock album “Illionoise,” grew up in Connecticut, attending Connecticut Conservatory of the Performing Arts in New Milford and later getting degrees from both Yale University and the Yale School of Music.

Rick Elice, nominated for the book of the musical “Water for Elephants,” is another Yale School of Drama graduate.

Choreographer Camille A. Brown, who was nominated for the dances in the Alicia Keys musical “Hell’s Kitchen,” has toured through Connecticut with her Camille A. Brown & Dancers troupe numerous times, including at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas and UConn’s Jorgensen Center.

Annie-B Parsons is another choreography nominee for “Here Lies Love,” her second Broadway collaboration with David Byrne. She was a dance major at Connecticut College, graduating in 1980.

Most of the Tony-nominated designers have done shows in Connecticut when not readying something for Broadway. There are too many connections to list here. Costume designer Linda Cho, who received the only nomination bestowed on the new musical version of “The Great Gatsby” is a good example. She has credits at the Goodspeed, 蜜聊直播 Stage, Yale Rep and Long Wharf Theatre.

Prolific scenic designer Riccardo Hernández teaches at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and lives in Hamden. His Connecticut design credits include “Detroit ‘67” at 蜜聊直播 Stage in 2019 and “Grounded” at Westport Playhouse in 2017. He’s nominated for co-designing the musical “Lempicka.”

Hernández’s co-nominee for the “Lempicka” is Peter Nigrini. Best known as a projection designer, Nigrini has been involved in shows at Goodspeed Musicals, 蜜聊直播 Stage and Yale Rep. He also had a hand in several musicals coming to Connecticut soon on tour, including“Beetlejuice,” “MJ” and “Ain’t Too Proud.”

As for the many Tony-nominated actors who’ve trod Connecticut stages, “Stereophonic” star Tom Pecinka is a Norwalk resident who has appeared at regional theaters throughout the state. At 蜜聊直播 Stage, he was in Darko Tresjnak’s 2014 production of “Hamlet” and Elizabeth Williamson’s 2017 production of “Cloud 9.” At Yale Rep, he was in “Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2 and 3” and “Arcadia.” He’s also a Yale School of Drama graduate.

“Stereophonic” cast member, Juliana Canfield, is another Yale School of Drama graduate with a Tony nomination, as is Liev Schreiber, nominated for the revival of” Doubt.”

Jeremy Strong, nominated for a revival of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” (adapted by Amy Herzog) was an undergraduate at Yale University, where he was involved with the student theater organization.

Steven Skybell, who was both an undergraduate and a graduate student at Yale and whose Yale Rep performances range from “Apocalyptic Butterflies” in 1987 to “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” in 2015, is nominated for playing Herr Schultz in “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club,” a rethinking of the musical “Cabaret.”

Early in her career Leslie Kritzer, nominated for playing the Lady in the Lake in the revival of “Spamalot,” appeared in the world premiere of the musical “Pop!” as Valerie Solanis (the woman who shot artist Andy Warhol) at the Yale Rep.

Kecia Lewis, nominated for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for “Hell’s Kitchen” performed in “Breath and Imagination: The Story of Roland Hayes” at 蜜聊直播 Stage in 2013 and “Ain’t Misbehavin’” at the Long Wharf Theatre in 2011.

Norwalk native Roger Bart was nominated for playing Doc in the musical version of “Back to the Future.” One of his first professional acting jobs was in the musical “Blood Brothers” at Downtown Cabaret Theatre in Bridgeport in 1988.

If Yale seems to have a special link to the Tonys and Broadway in general, part of the reason is that the David Geffen School of Drama is one of the few drama schools that offer classes in virtually every theater discipline, from sound design to theater management. Students who work well together at the school often bring each other in on professional projects once they’ve graduated, forming teams and close working relationships. The Yale Rep also has a history, continued this year with “Mary Jane,” of sending promising plays from the regional theater realm to New York. That success was exemplified by the works of August Wilson, many of which had their world premieres at the Rep.

The 2024 Tony Awards ceremony, which honors Broadway excellence, will be broadcast June 16 on CBS-TV and the Paramount+ streaming service. Tony nominations are determined by a 44-person committee appointed by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. Over 800 official Tory voters select the awards based on the list of nominees. Officially known as the Antonette Perry Awards, the Tonys have been presented since 1947.