These Broadway Veterans Are 2015 Emmy Award Winners
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A host of Broadway favorites took home 2015 Emmy Awards tonight for their performances on the comedies and dramas of this past television season.
The list of winners included New York stage vets Uzo Aduba (Godspell) for Orange Is the New Black, Viola Davis (Fences) for How to Get Away With Murder, Peter Dinklage (A Month in the Country) for Game of Thrones, Allison Janney (9 to 5) for Mom, Frances McDormand (Good People) for Olive Kitteridge, Jeffrey Tambor (Glengarry Glen Ross) for Transparent, and Mark Rylance (Twelfth Night) for Wolf Hall.
Six-time Tony and two-time Grammy winner Audra McDonald is now one step closer to the coveted EGOT, having won a 2015 Emmy during the September 12 Creative Arts Awards as the host of Live from Lincoln Center's broadcast of Sweeney Todd. McDonald won alongside the show's producers in the "Outstanding Special Class Program" category.
Other winners with stage experience announced during the Creative Arts Awards include Bradley Whitford (Boeing-Boeing) for Transparent, Hank Azaria (Monty Python's Spamalot) for The Simpsons, Margo Martindale (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) for The Americans, Reg E. Cathey (Love's Labour's Lost) for House of Cards, Derek Hough (New York Spring Spectacular) for his choreography on Dancing With the Stars, and Jane Lynch (Annie) as host of Hollywood Game Night.
For a full list of winners, click here.
