VIDEO: Rachel Dratch Says Her Tony Nomination 'Wasn't Even on [Her] Dreamboard!'

One of the seven reasons that audiences are on their feet eight times a week at the Shubert Theatre is Rachel Dratch, who is up for her very first Tony Award for her hysterical performance in POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.

"It was already a thrill to be making my Broadway debut and to make the audience laugh," Dratch told BroadwayWorld. "[The Tony nominataion] was a surprise. It wasn't even on my dreamboard! It's a delightful shock."

Dratch is perhaps best known for her seven seasons as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live". She got her start at the Second City theater in Chicago where she was on the main stage for four years. Other tv credits: "King of Queens", "30 Rock", and "Shameless". She has lent her voice to "Bob's Burgers", "Harley Quinn" and "Teen Titans Go!" Film: Down with Love, Click, Just Go with It, Sisters, Wine Country, the Hallmark movie parody A Clüsterfünke Christmas which she also co-wrote, and the upcoming I Love My Dad. Theater: Privacy (Public), Ripcord (MTC), Love's Labour's Lost (Delacorte), Minsky's (Ahmanson) and the title role of Sylvia (George Street).

watch as she catches up with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to chat about everything from how she got the part to how she's preparing for Tony night!