The high-concept and incendiary comedy, which imagined a government-sponsored return migration to Africa for Black Americans, received six nominations, including for best play.Īnd Fat Ham, an exuberantly queer, comedic spin on Hamlet set at a Black family barbeque, for which the playwright James Ijames won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama last year, was also nominated for best play. Cooper received a supporting actor nod for Ain’t No’ Mo, a play he wrote and starred in, playing a sharp-witted drag queen flight attendant. “But I’m not going to show up any less than who I am I will always show up as myself.”Įlsewhere in the nominations, Jordan E. “I never go into things expecting to be the person that changes everything,” Ghee said. Ghee said that their decision to be considered in the best actor category was made with intention and acknowledged that the industry needs to change. “Drag was a doorway for me to be able to step into a fuller version of myself,” Ghee, who is nonbinary, told The Daily Beast earlier this year.
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