For the 2020 Tony Awards, Andrew Burnap ’13 was nominated for BEST ACTOR in a leading role (play) for his role as Toby Darling in Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance. The Broadway production received 11 nominations in total, including “Best Play.”

Burnap is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island (BFA) and Yale School of Drama (MFA). He made his New York professional debut as Troilus in Troilus and Cressida in Central Park’s Delacorte Theater. Burnap originated the role of Toby Darling in Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance at London’s Young Vic and continued at the Noël Coward Theatre in London’s West End. The play debuted on Broadway in November of 2019, running until Broadway’s shutdown on March 12, 2020.

The Inheritance won Best Play at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards (2018) and won Best New Play and Best Director (for Stephen Daldry) at both the 2019 Critics’ Circle Awards and the 2019 Laurence Olivier Awards

This semester, The University of Rhode Island Department of Theatre is fortunate to have Andrew as an instructor teaching THE 111: Introduction to Acting. “We couldn’t be more excited for him and for those lucky first-year students who now can now say that their professor is a TONY Nominee,” says David T. Howard, Chair of the Department of Theatre.

For more on Andrew and his time at URI check out the award-winning feature here.