This Year’s Tony Awards Will Be Hosted by Ariana DeBose

Ariana DeBose will host this 12 months’s Tony Awards.

The Broadway League and the American Theater Wing, the 2 organizations that current the awards, introduced the selection on Wednesday. The Tony Awards, which honor performs and musicals staged on Broadway, will happen on June 12.

DeBose, 31, in March gained the Academy Award for finest supporting actress for her efficiency as Anita in final 12 months’s Steven Spielberg-directed movie adaptation of “West Facet Story.”

She has appeared in six Broadway exhibits, together with “Hamilton” (in a dance quantity, she portrayed the bullet that killed the title character). She was nominated for a Tony Award in 2018 for her work in “Summer season: The Donna Summer season Musical” (she performed “Disco Donna,” representing considered one of three phases of the singer’s profession).

The Tony Awards can be DeBose’s second high-profile internet hosting gig this 12 months; in January she hosted “Saturday Night time Stay.”

This 12 months’s Tony Awards ceremony will happen at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, and is scheduled to final 4 hours. DeBose will host the three-hour televised section, broadcast on CBS from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Japanese; that section, which is prone to be dominated by performances, can be preceded by a one-hour section, streamed on Paramount+, at which most of the awards are prone to be introduced. The streaming portion can have a distinct host who has not but been named.

The nominations for this 12 months’s Tony Awards are to be introduced on Monday.