TV Special: 2012 Tony Nominees - Judith Light on Being Welcomed Back to Broadway!

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BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tony Brunch on May 2, 2012, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season.  Today we bring you Judith Light, nominee for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Other Desert Cities.  

Broadway: Other Desert Cities (LCT), A Doll's House (Public Theater's Broadway production at Lincoln Center), Lombardi (Circle in the Square Theatre; Tony, Drama League, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations; Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Best Actress in a Play). Theater: Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit (NY and national tour, Helen Hayes and Elliot Norton awards), Colder Than Here (MCC Theater), Athol Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings (Second Stage Theatre, NY and Mark Taper Forum, L.A., Drama League nom.), AR Gurney's Children (Westport and Williamstown Theatres), Hedda Gabler (Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC; Helen Hayes nom.), Guys and Dolls (USO European tour), Company (L.A. Reprise!), Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Foundation, Ojai Playwrights Conference. TV: "One Life to Live" (two Best Actress Emmy awards), "Who's the Boss?," "Phenom," "The Stones," CBS' "The Simple Life," "Law & Order: SVU," "Ugly Betty" (Emmy nom.), "Nurse Jackie," "The Exes." Fifteen movies for tele- vision including "The Ryan White Story" and "A Husband, a Wife and a Lover" (co-execu- tive producer). Film: The Shoemaker, Ira & Abby and Save Me (actor and producer, premiered Sundance Film Festival 2007). BFA: Carnegie Mellon University. Board member and advocate of various HIV/AIDS and human rights organizations.

The Tony Awards will be broadcast in a live three-hour ceremony from the Beacon Theatre, on the CBS television network on Sunday, June 10, 2012. 

Click here for the complete list of nominations! Click here for the nominations by the numbers. 

Video filmed and Edited by Jonathan Frank