It was announced today that past Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Julie White will host the pre-tony Award show, the Creative Arts Awards, prior to the Tony broadcast. The show will start around 7:10PM at Radio City Music Hall.
The awards honor "behind the scenes excellence in Broadway" and will also include the presentation of the Tony Lifetime Achievement Award to Stephen Sondheim and the Regional Theater Tony Award to Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Julie White's theatre credits include The Little Dog Laughed (Tony Award-Best Actress; Obie Award; Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, Drama League nominations), Fiction, The Heidi Chronicles, Dinner With Friends, Barbra's Wedding and also Bad Dates, Spike Heels, and The Family of Man all by Theresa Rebeck. TV credits include "Cavemen," guest starring as Mitzi Dalton Huntley on HBO's "Six Feet Under," a series regular on "Grace Under Fire," "The Heidi Chronicles," "Law And Order," "Law And Order: SVU," "Whoopi," "Ally McBeal," "Strong Medicine," "Touched By An Angel" and "Arli$$." Film credits include The Astronaut Farmer, Michael Clayton, The Nanny Diaries, Transformers, War Of The Worlds, Slap Her, She's French and Sunday on the Rocks.Videos