Ariana DeBose will return to host this 12 months’s Tony Awards, the ceremony’s producers introduced as we speak.
DeBose, an Oscar winner (West Facet Story) and Tony nominee (Summer season: The Donna Summer season Musical), hosted final 12 months’s broadcast to normal acclaim. This 12 months’s occasion, the 76th Annual Tony Awards, will air reside from United Palace in New York Metropolis’s Washington Heights on Sunday, June 11, on CBS.
“I used to be honored to function host final 12 months and much more so to be requested again,” DeBose mentioned in a press release. “So trying ahead to celebrating this unbelievable season and the individuals who make the work occur. Right here’s to including some uptown taste to the magic of the Tony Awards.”
Heather Hitchens, President and CEO of the American Theatre Wing and Charlotte St. Martin, President of The Broadway League mentioned in a joint assertion that DeBose is a “power each on and off the stage,” and that the occasion presenters and producers are “thrilled to welcome again one among Broadway’s brightest lights to dazzle, encourage and illuminate this 12 months’s Tony Awards.”
“Ariana will host and dance and sing, we’re so thrilled she’s again to do the factor,” mentioned Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, Government Producers, White Cherry Leisure.
DeBose gained an Oscar final 12 months for her efficiency as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s West Facet Story, and was Tony-nominated in 2018 for her position as “Disco Donna” in Broadway’s Summer season: The Donna Summer season Musical. Different stage credit embody Hamilton, A Bronx Story, Pippin, and Motown the Musical, amongst others. Notable TV and movie credit embody the Apple TV+ sequence Schmigadoon! and the Netflix adaptation of the Broadway musical The Promenade. She’ll subsequent be seen within the characteristic movies Kraven the Hunter, Want, Home of Spoils, Argylle and I.S.S.
The 76th Tonys celebration will acknowledge Broadway productions of the 2022-2023 season. The Tony Awards eligibility deadline for the season is Thursday, April 27; nominations might be introduced on Tuesday, Could 2.
The 76th Annual Tony Awards will air reside Sunday, June 11, at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT on CBS, and stream reside and in-demand on Paramount+.
