Two Tony Award nominees have MHC roots.
When the annual Tony Award nominations for best "leading actress in a play" were announced recently, two went to productions with connections to Mount Holyoke.
When the annual nominations for best "leading actress in a play" were announced recently, two went to productions with connections to Mount Holyoke.
An in Playbill lists the colleges attended by the acting nominees.
Actress ’88 is nominated for her role in Hand to God. It is described as an "uproarious and provocative new American play by Robert Askins that centers on a shy, inquisitive student who finds an outlet for his burgeoning creativity at the Christian Puppet Ministry in the devoutly religious, relatively quiet small town of Cypress, Texas."
Carr has a long acting résumé that includes roles in TV series (including Law and Order: Criminal Intent and The Good Wife), film, Web series, and New York and regional theatre.
Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss is also nominated, for her performance in the titular role in The Heidi Chronicles, which was written by Wendy Wasserstein ’71. This is the first Broadway revival of The Heidi Chronicles, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for best play during its initial run in the 1980s.
The Tony Awards honor the best plays and performances on Broadway. This year's winners will be announced June 7.
• Read about "Geneva Carr's cool, unlikely route to a Tony nomination" in this Missourian article.