The Nominating Committee, according to a release, "attends all productions during the Broadway season, and meets on the date designated by the Administration Committee to determine, by vote, the Tony Award nominees for that season."

The committee for the 2005-2006 season follows:
Victoria Bailey — Executive Director, Theatre Development Fund
Susan Birkenhead — Lyricist
Stephen Bogardus — Actor
Edward Burbridge — Scenic Designer
Ben Cameron — Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group
Kristen Childs — Musical Theatre Writer
*Betty Corwin — Retired Director of the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts
Jacqueline Z. Davis - Executive Director, Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts
Mercedes Ellington — Choreographer
*Rob Fisher — Musical Director
Nancy Ford — Composer
*Andrew Jackness — Scenic Designer
Geoffrey Johnson — Casting Director
*Robert Kamlot — Retired General Manager
*Todd London — Artistic Director, New Dramatists
*Brian Stokes Mitchell — Actor
Jon Nakagawa — Producer of Contemporary Programming, Lincoln Center
Enid Nemy — New York Times Staff Writer
Peter Neufeld — Former General Manager
*Lynn Nottage — Playwright
*Sarah Jessica Parker — Actor
*Gilbert Parker — Retired Senior-Vice President of the William Morris Agency
*Jonathan Reynolds — Playwright & Screenwriter
Marc Shaiman — Composer & Lyricist
William Tynan — Writer/Editor, Time Magazine
Jac Venza — Retired Executive, WNET
*Franklin Weissberg — Retired Judge of the New York State Court of Claims

*New Committee Members Beginning a Three-Year Term