Broadway music director and philanthropist Mary-Mitchell Campbell will receive the 2026 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for her advocacy work through the arts. 

Campbell, a Grammy and Drama Desk Award-winning music director, conductor, orchestrator, composer and arranger, has led the music department for more than a dozen Broadway shows including Death Becomes Her, Once Upon A Mattress and Some Like it Hot. As of 2022, Campbell also took on the role of music director for the ENCORES! series at New York City Center. 

Her advocacy work includes working as a founding member of Musicians United for Social Equity and on the advisory board of MAESTRA, which advocates for the hiring of women and other underrepresented musicians. She has music directed as well as supervised numerous events for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the Serious Fun Children’s Network and Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Bootcamp.

In 2006, Mary-Mitchell Campbell joined forces with a group of Juilliard students to found Artists Striving to End Poverty, which helps young artists find their voice, which has since been rebranded as Arts Ignite. She remains president of the organization. 

“Mary-Mitchell has taken her extraordinary talents and found a way to channel them into something that will have a lasting impact on our community, and help shape its future,” said Heather Hitchens, President & CEO of the American Theatre Wing and Jason Laks, President of the Broadway League. “Her selfless endeavors have made her so very deserving of this year’s Isabelle Stevenson Award, and we are thrilled to honor her in this way.”

Previous recipients of the 2026 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award  include Celia Keenan-Bolger, Billy Porter, Jerry Mitchell, Julie Halston, Judith Light, Nick Scandalios, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Stephen Schwartz, Larry Kramer, Rosie O’Donnell, Bernadette Peters, Eve Ensler and David Hyde Pierce.