Andre Bishop, artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater from 1992 to 2025; pioneering Broadway lighting designer Jules Fisher; and playwright, director and frequent Stephen Sondheim collaborator James Lapine will be this year’s recipients of the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.

The three join previous recipients that include Sondheim, Harvey Fierstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Carol Channing, John Kander, Angela Lansbury, and Terrence McNally, among others.

Nominations for the 79th Tony Awards will be announced this Tuesday, May 5, with the ceremony taking place June 7 at Radio City Music Hall. Pink hosts the awards show, which will be broadcast live to both coasts on CBS, streaming on Paramount+, 8-11 p.m. ET/5-8 p.m. PT.

Variety was the first to report the Lifetime honors. Deadline has confirmed the selections.

Yesterday, the awards administration committee announced that musical director, supervisor and arranger Mary-Mitchell Campbell will receive the 2026 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for her “unwavering dedication to advocacy work through the arts.”

Campbell is a founding member of Musicians United for Social Equity, is on the advisory board of Maestra, has music directed and/or supervised numerous events for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the Serious Fun Children’s Network, and Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Bootcamp.