Tony Awards 2023: Jodie Comer wins as Ariana DeBose hosts unscripted

Jodie Comer says she's "overwhelmed" aft winning a prestigious Tony Award for her one-woman Broadway amusement Prima Facie.

The Killing Eve histrion won champion starring histrion successful a play for her portrayal of a defence lawyer who ends up successful the witnesser box.

The Tony Awards, Broadway's biggest night, saw occurrence for respective British names successful New York connected Sunday.

"This pistillate successful this play has been my top teacher," Comer said.

"I person to convey Suzie Miller for that, who wrote this magnificent piece. Without her penning that [I] would not beryllium present truthful this feels conscionable arsenic overmuch Suzie's arsenic it is mine."

The 30-year-old from Liverpool has antecedently won an Olivier grant for her performance, which transferred from London's West End to Broadway.

The histrion went connected to convey members of her accumulation squad and apologised to her friends and household for being "absent" successful the past year.

"To each idiosyncratic who feels represented by Tessa, this has been my top honour," she said, rapidly adding "and it continues to beryllium - there's 3 weeks left!"

The ceremonial was hosted by Oscar-winning histrion Ariana DeBose who warned audiences to "buckle up" arsenic the amusement was unscripted, owed to the ongoing Hollywood writers strike.

The amusement opened with a show wherever she flipped done bare pages successful a binder labelled "script" successful a dressing room

"We don't person a publication you guys. I americium unrecorded and unscripted. You're welcome," DeBose said.

"To anyone who whitethorn person thought that past twelvemonth was a spot unhinged. To them I accidental 'darlings, buckle up'."

Several winners, including champion starring histrion successful a philharmonic victor Victoria Clark, referenced the Writers Guild of America (WGA) onslaught during acceptance speeches.

"We are thing without our writers and I enactment the WGA and their conflict for the declaration they deserve," she said.

Also astatine Sunday's ceremony, Alex Newell and J Harrison Ghee became the archetypal non-binary performers to beryllium recognised astatine the awards.

Newell won the champion featured histrion successful a philharmonic for Shucked, portion J. Harrison Ghee, won champion starring histrion successful a philharmonic for playing a gender-questioning instrumentalist successful Some Like It Hot.

Michael Arden won his archetypal Tony Award for his absorption of the Broadway revival of Parade, which depicts the 1913 proceedings and imprisonment, and 1915 lynching, of the Jewish-American mill manager Leo Frank successful Georgia.

In his acceptance speech, Arden said: "Parade tells the communicative of a beingness that was chopped abbreviated astatine the hands of the content that 1 radical of radical is much oregon little invaluable than different and that they mightiness beryllium much deserving of justice.

"This is simply a content that is the halfway of antisemitism, of achromatic supremacy, of homophobia, of transphobia and intolerance of immoderate kind. We indispensable travel together. We indispensable conflict this. It is so, truthful important, oregon other we are doomed to repetition the horrors of our history."

One of the night's biggest awards, champion play, went to British writer Sir Tom Stoppard for his play Leopoldstadt, which besides scooped champion direction, champion costume and champion show by an histrion successful a play.

British creatives Tim Hatley and Andrzej Goulding, Tim Lutkin and Carolyn Downing picked up awards for the Life of Pi, with Goulding and Downing referencing Sheffield, wherever the play had its premiere, successful their acceptance speeches.

Kimberly Akimbo was named champion musical, besides scooping champion archetypal people and champion starring histrion for Victoria Clark.

Best philharmonic - Kimberly Akimbo

Best publication of a philharmonic - Kimberly Akimbo, David Lindsay-Abaire

Best archetypal people - Kimberly Akimbo, David Lindsay-Abaire (lyrics), Jeanine Tesori (music)

Best revival of a play - Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/ Underdog

Best revival of a philharmonic - Parade

Best show by an histrion successful a starring relation successful a play - Sean Hayes for Good Night, Oscar

Best show by an histrion successful a starring relation successful a play - Jodie Comer for Prima Facie

Best show by an histrion successful a starring relation successful a philharmonic - J. Harrison Ghee for Some Like It Hot

Best show by an histrion successful a starring relation successful a philharmonic - Victoria Clark for Kimberly Akimbo

Best show by an histrion successful a featured relation successful a play - Brandon Uranowitz for Leopoldstadt

Best show by an histrion successful a featured relation successful a play - Miriam Silverman for The Sign successful Sidney Brustein's Window

Best show by an histrion successful a featured relation successful a philharmonic - Alex Newell for Shucked

Best show by an histrion successful a featured relation successful a philharmonic - Bonnie Milligan for Kimberly Akimbo

Best scenic plan of a play - Tim Hatley & Andrzej Goulding for Life of Pi

Best scenic plan of a philharmonic - Beowulf Boritt for New York, New York

Best costume plan of a play - Brigitte Reiffenstuel for Leopoldstadt

Best costume plan of a philharmonic - Gregg Barnes for Some Like It Hot

Best lighting plan of a play - Tim Lutkin for Life of Pi

Best lighting plan of a philharmonic - Natasha Katz for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best dependable plan of a play - Carolyn Downing for Life of Pi

Best dependable plan of a philharmonic - Nevin Steinberg for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best absorption of a play - Patrick Marber for Leopoldstadt

Best absorption of a philharmonic - Michael Arden for Parade

Best choreography - Casey Nicholaw for Some Like It Hot

Best orchestrations - Charlie Rosen & Bryan Carter for Some Like It Hot

Special Tony Award for beingness accomplishment successful the theatre - Joel Grey and John Kander

Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award - Jerry Mitchell

Regional theatre Tony Award - Pasadena Playhouse

Tony Honours for excellence successful the theatre - Victoria Bailey, Lisa Dawn Cave and Robert Fried