2017 Emmy Winners (NY Theater Vets Highlighted)

Below is the list of Emmy winners, with Broadway veterans in red. (Off-Broadway vets in green.)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series – John Lithgow, The Crown
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series – Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie – Laura Dern, Big Little Lies
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series – Donald Glover, Atlanta
Outstanding Variety Sketch Series – Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series – Bruce Miller, The Handmaid’s Tale
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie – Jean-Marc Vallée, Big Little Lies
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie – Alexander Skarsgård, Big Little Lies
Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series – Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series – Ann Dowd, The Handmaid’s Tale
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series – Aziz Ansari & Lena Waithe, Master of None
Outstanding Reality Competition Program – The Voice
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series – Reed Morano, The Handmaid’s Tale
Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie – Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series – Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Variety Talk Series – Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Donald Glover, Atlanta
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series – Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Outstanding Comedy Series – Veep
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie – Riz Ahmed, The Night Of
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie – Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies
Outstanding TV Movie – “San Junipero,” Black Mirror
Outstanding Limited Series – Big Little Lies
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series – Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale
Outstanding Drama Series – The Handmaid’s Tale

Complete list from the Academy

John Lithgow, the first winner of the night, is about to star in his 24th show on Broadway, “John Lithgow Stories of the Heart.”  He’s been nominated for the Tony Award six times, and won twice.

Laura Dern performed in “The Palace of Amateurs” at the Minetta Lane Theater in 1988.

Alec Baldwin has performed on Broadway five times, most recently in Orphans in 2013, and Off-Broadway four times, and was nominated for a Tony Award for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1992.

Ann Dowd is a veteran of three Broadway plays, and three Off-Broadway, most recently Night Is a Room in 2015.

Nicole Kidman starred in “The Blue Room” on Broadway in 1998-1999.

Sterling K. Brown has performed in five plays Off-Broadway, most recently Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Father Comes Home from the Wars” at the Public Theater in 2014.

Elisabeth Moss is a veteran of both Off-Broadway and Broadway most recently nominated for a Tony for The Heidi Chronicles in 2015.

 

(Jackie Hoffman is a veteran of five Broadway and four Off-Broadway shows; she’s currently in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.)

Watch Christopher Jackson sing Stevie Wonder’s “As” for the In Memoriam segment

Author: New York Theater

Jonathan Mandell is a 3rd generation NYC journalist, who sees shows, reads plays, writes reviews and sometimes talks with people.

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