Broadway Star Kara Young Wins First Tony Award After 3 Consecutive Nominations

Kara Young is a Tony Award winner!

The actress won the award for Best Featured Actress in a Play at the 2024 Tony Awards on Sunday (June 16) at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

Kara won the award for her work in the play Purlie Victorious and she was joined at the event by co-star Leslie Odom Jr., who was also nominated for his performance.

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This was Kara‘s third consecutive year being nominated in the category. She was nominated in 2022 for Clyde’s and in 2023 for Cost of Living.

“To the great Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins who said I’m taking a chance on my life and I’m gonna go—because I have some life left in me,” Kara said at the end of her inspiring speech. “She deserved it. And we all do. Thank you. This is to the vibration of the liberation for humanity.”

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