WHO:

Tony Award winners Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce will announce the nominations for The 78th Annual Tony Awards.

WHAT:

The nominations for The 78th Annual Tony Awards will be announced live from Sofitel New York on the Tony Awards official 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 at TonyAwards.com immediately following the announcement.  

WHEN:

Thursday, May 1, 2025

8:30am ET - Live on CBS Mornings

9:00am ET - Live on the Tony Awards YouTube Page

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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 (8:00 – 11:00 PM ET/5:00 – 8:00 PM PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ in the U.S.*.  

A limited number of tickets to the show are now on sale to the general public. Ticket prices begin at $595 for seats in the second and third mezzanines and are available for purchase at TonyAwards.com and Ticketmaster.com. There is a six ticket limit and all ticket sales are final (Ticketmaster services charges will apply). 

The Tony Awards are produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, and White Cherry Entertainment. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss are executive producers and showrunners for White Cherry Entertainment. Weiss will serve as director. 

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. 

Upcoming, Paulson will star in Hulu’s All’s Fair, Ryan Murphy’s new legal series, alongside Glenn Close, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash Betts, Kim Kardashian and Teyana Taylor. The series will launch on Hulu in Fall 2025. She will also star in Bruce Norris’ film adaptation of his Pulitzer-, Tony- and Olivier award-winning play, Clybourne Park.

In 2021, Paulson executive produced and starred as ‘Linda Tripp’ in FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story, subsequently earning her eighth Emmy® nomination.         

Paulson's Emmy® win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie was earned for her portrayal of attorney ‘Marcia Clark’ in FX’s critically acclaimed miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Paulson also received a Golden Globe® Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Critics’ Choice Award and a Television Critics Association Award for this role. 

Paulson served as executive producer and played the title role in the Netflix series, Ratched. The series, which centers on the early life of ‘Mildred Ratched’ from the 1962 Ken Kesey novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, debuted at number one across 50 countries worldwide and earned Paulson a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama.  

Paulson received her first Emmy® nomination and second Golden Globe® nomination for her role as ‘Nicolle Wallace’ in HBO's critically acclaimed telefilm Game Change.  Her first Golden Globe® nomination was for her performance in Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip for NBC.

She previously starred in 10 installments of Ryan Murphy’s award-winning television series American Horror Story for FX. In addition to starring as multiple characters in season 10, she also made her directorial debut with the 78- minute crossover episode, “Return to Murder House.” Paulson has received five Emmy® nominations for her roles in the franchise: ‘Ally Mayfair-Richards' in American Horror Story: Cult; ‘Sally’ in American Horror Story: Hotel; conjoined twins ‘Bette and ‘Dot Tattler’ in American Horror Story: Freak Show; ‘Cordelia Foxx’ in American Horror Story: Coven and ‘Lana Winters’ in American Horror Story: Asylum. She has also earned two Critics’ Choice Awards for her roles in the anthology series. Her other television work includes Hulu’s Emmy® -nominated limited series Mrs. America, and HBO’s Coastal Elites.

Paulson’s film credits include Warner Bros. Ocean’s 8, which opened at number one in the U.S. and topped the opening-weekend figures of each of the previous Ocean’s films; Todd Haynes’ critically acclaimed Carol alongside Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara; Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, which received an Academy Award® for Best Picture; and Jeff Nichols' Mud alongside Reese Witherspoon and Matthew McConaughey, for which the cast received the Robert Altman Award at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. She has also appeared in Steven Spielberg’s The Post opposite Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep; Aneesh Chaganty’s Run for Hulu; Searchlight’s horror thriller Hold Your Breath; M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Glass for Universal; Netflix’s Bird Box opposite Sandra Bullock; DreamWorks Animation’s Abominable; Fox Searchlight’s Martha Marcy May Marlene alongside Elizabeth Olsen; Down with Love with Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor and David Hyde Pierce; What Women Want opposite Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt and The Other Sister directed by Garry Marshall and starring Diane Keaton and Juliette Lewis.          

On stage, in addition to her Tony winning performance in Appropriate, she previously starred on Broadway in Collected Stories opposite Linda Lavin; as ‘Laura Wingfield’ in The Glass Menagerie alongside Jessica Lange; The Cherry Orchard alongside Alfred Molina and Annette Bening, Tracy Letts’ critically acclaimed Killer Joe, and Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Lanford Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Talley’s Folly.

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.

Universally hailed for his portrayal of Det. Bunk Moreland on HBO’s groundbreaking series “The Wire,” Pierce was also praised for his starring role as Antoine Baptiste on David Simon’s critically acclaimed series “Tremé.” He has also starred in an episode of Fox’s anthology series “Accused,” as James Greer in “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” alongside John Krasinski and as the beloved character Snaps in Starz’s “Raising Kanan.”

Pierce returned to Broadway in 2022 for a limited engagement to reprise his portrayal of Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman,” for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Lead Actor in a Play. Pierce made his Broadway debut as Boy Willie in August Wilson’s “Piano Lesson.” His other Broadway credits include Carol Churchill’s “Serious Money” and John Pielmeier’s “Boys of Winter.” Other theater credits include “Cost of Living,” “Brokeology,” “‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore,” “Cymbeline,” “Two Gentleman of Verona,” “Tartuffe,” “Waiting for Godot,” “The Cherry Orchard” and “The Oedipus Cycle.”

In film, Pierce’s wide-ranging work includes Ava Duvernay’s “Selma,” Taylor Hackford’s “Ray,” Spike Lee’s “Malcom X” and “Get on the Bus,” Forest Whittaker’s “Waiting to Exhale,” Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner “Clemency,” and the Bounce Original Film “Don’t Hang Up,” for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Male Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Limited Series. Pierce will soon be seen in James Gunn’s highly anticipated film “Superman,” in which he will play Perry White, editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet newspaper, and in Marvel's "Thunderbolts."

On television, Pierce starred as Robert Zane on USA Network’s “Suits,” and had recurring roles on Showtime’s RAY DONOVAN and NBC’s “Chicago PD.” He appeared in HBO’s award-winning “Confirmation” as Clarence Thomas and “Between the World and Me,” based on the #1 New York Times bestseller by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

A Juilliard alum and a 1981 White House Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Pierce is the recipient of several awards, including the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in the Theater; the Tribeca Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Rev. Tillman in the drama “Burning Cane,” for which he also received Independent Spirit and Gotham Award nominations; a Tony Award as a producer of “Clybourne Park”; and Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Image Award for his role of Slick in the HBO drama “Life Support,” opposite Queen Latifah.

Pierce is co-owner of Equity Media, the new ownership group of WBOK 1230AM, a 70-year-old legacy Black talk radio station in New Orleans and the oldest Black-owned radio station in Louisiana. Pierce is the author of his memoir, The Wind in the Reeds.

Currently, Pierce splits his residence between New York City and his native New Orleans. His birthday is Dec. 8. Follow him on X @WendellPierce and Instagram @wendellpcg.

About the Tony Awards

The American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.  At The Broadway League, Kristin Caskey is Chair and Jason Laks is President.  At the American Theatre Wing, Emilio Sosa is Chair and Heather A. Hitchens is President & CEO.

Sponsors for the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards include: City National Bank - the official bank of The Tony Awards; American Express - the official payments partner of The Tony Awards; Carnegie Mellon University - the first-ever, exclusive higher education partner; Baccarat - the official partner of the Tony Awards; Cunard - the official cruise partner of The Tony Awards; Dewar's - the official scotch whisky of The Tony Awards; Sofitel New York - the official hotel of The Tony Awards; Playbill; Rainbow Room - the official partner of the Tony Nominee Luncheon.

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*Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers will have access to stream live via the live feed of their local CBS affiliate on the service, as well as on-demand. Paramount+ Essential subscribers will not have the option to stream live, but will have access to on-demand the day after the special airs.