# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-kail
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:38:43.584Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-kail"
name: "Thomas Kail"
slug: "thomas-kail"
description: "Thomas Kail is an American theatre director, television director, and producer. He is known for directing the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musicals In the Heights and Hamilton, garnering the 2016 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for the latter. Kail was awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2018. He has also directed the television series Fosse/Verdon (2019), for which he was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards."
tagline: "American musician and theatre director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ThomasKail-byPhilipRomano.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1978-01-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.296585333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2371802/"
    handle:    "nm2371802"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kail"
    title: "Thomas Kail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "توماس كايل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kail"
    title: "Thomas Kail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "توماس کیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kail"
    title: "Thomas Kail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kail"
    title: "Thomas Kail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7791435"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1485823"
    title: "Thomas Kail"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump