“For every trans, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming human who ever was told you couldn’t be, you couldn’t be seen, this is for you,” J. Harrison Ghee said during their acceptance speech.
, along with Victoria Clark , Bonnie Milligan , Brandon Uranowitz and Miriam Silverman .
The Tony Awards telecast, which was aired in two parts on Pluto TV and CBS, was held without a script following with the WGA, which did not grant the awards ceremony a waiver that would have allowed it to take place with writers, but said the union wouldn’t picket the event.members who were nominated not to attend the awards, they did ultimately attend at the urging of the Dramatists Guild , and many expressed their support for the ongoing strike during the awards ceremony.
, but was still unable to be used amid the union’s strike. The awards ceremony was also supposed to have an opening number penned by
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