Congratulations to all this year’s Emmy Award nominees. So many of them have theater credits (and Tony Awards, too) that it would be impossible to list them all. But here are just a few who have spent time on stage here in LA and NY who are also nominees tonight:
Viola Davis (How to Get Away With Murder) has two Tony Awards for her performances in Fences (2010 and King Hedley II (2001)
Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) appeared on stage in The Heidi Chronicles in 2015 and David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow revival in 2009.
Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) won a Tony Award for his performance in Glengarry Glen Ross (2005). Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent) was also in that production.
Jane Fonda (Grace and Frankie) first appeared on Broadway in There Was a Little Girl in 1960. She was nominated for her performance in 2009’s 33 Variations. She later reprised that role at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Her co-star Lily Tomlin (Grace and Frankie) won a Tony Award for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985-1986). She also performed the show at what was then called the James A. Doolittle Theatre (now the Ricardo Montalban) on Vine Street.
John Litghow (The Crown) won a Tony Award for his first Broadway role in The Changing Room (1973). He won a second for the musical The Sweet Smell of Success in 2002. He appeared in with Glenda Jackson in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1989 at the Doolittle. He most recently appeared at the Mark Taper Forum in Stories By Heart which will open next year on Broadway.
Carrie Coon (Fargo) appeared on Broadway in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 2012.
Geoffrey Rush (Genius) has only appeared on Broadway once. The show was Exit the King (2009) and he won a Tony Award.
The cast of Feud has spent quite some time on Broadway. Susan Sarandon was with Rush in Exit the King. Jessica Lange won a Tony Award for her performance in Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2016) and she appeared with Alec Baldwin (nominated for Saturday Night Live) in a 1992 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. Alfred Molina was in Red in 2010 and he also played the part at the Mark Taper Forum. Stanley Tucci was nominated for his performance in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Jackie Hoffman is on Broadway now in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (though I bet she’s missing today’s matinee!) She was also in the musicals Xanadu and Hairspray!
Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale) appeared in The Seagull (2008); Taking Sides (1996) and Candida (1993).
Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black) appeared on a revival of Godspell (2011) and also in Coram Boy (2007.)
Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) appeared in a revival of Of Mice and Men in 2014 and was also in The Motherfucker with the Hat (2011) and Gem of the Ocean (2004.)
Television host James Corden won a Tony Award for One Man, Two Guvnors in 2012. He also appeared in The History Boys in 2006. The original cast also performed the show at the Ahmanson Theatre.
And some guy named Lin-Manuel Miranda, nominated for his guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, has a few Tony Awards on his mantle. He wrote In the Heights and some musical that’s playing now at the Pantages Theatre called Hamilton.
Good luck to all the nominees and remember, you can often catch some of your favorite actors before they become famous by going to a play or musical.
