Tony Award winners Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce will announce the nominations for The 78th Annual Tony Awards.
Award-winning actress Sarah Paulson has built an impressive list of credits in film, television and on stage. Paulson won a 2024 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her role as Toni Lafayette in Broadway’s critically acclaimed and Tony Award-winning Appropriate, a darkly comic American family drama by Pulitzer Prize Award Finalist, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The play debuted to rave reviews and transferred from Second Stage for an extended commercial run at The Belasco in March 2024. For her performance, Paulson also won The Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play.
Wendell Pierce has established himself as a prolific award-winning actor with a body of work on stage, television and film that spans more than three decades. Pierce returned as Captain C.W. Wagner in the second season of the critically acclaimed CBS drama Elsbeth.
The nominations for The 78th Annual Tony Awards will be announced live from Sofitel New York on the Tony Awards YouTube page. A selection of categories will be revealed live on CBS Mornings at 8:30am ET. A complete list of nominees will be available on Broadway Direct — bookmark our page on all things Tony Awards to check them out.
This year’s Tony Awards will return to the legendary Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Hosted by Tony, Emmy, and GRAMMY Award-winner and three-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo, The American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards will broadcast LIVE to both coasts on Sunday, June 8, 2025 at 8 PM ET on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ in the U.S.