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Recap the 2026 Tony Awards Acceptance Speeches
Posted June 7, 2026
Nicole Rosky, Broadway World ˆ
The 79th Annual Tony Awards have come and gone! As winners took the stage at the big event, BroadwayWorld brought you full text of all of the acceptance speeches; from the emotional to the humorous, and everything in between.
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Outstanding Regional Theatre American Players Theatre
Managing Director Sara Young: We are both humbled and proud to receive this honor, and we thank the Broadway League, the American Theater Wing, American Theater Critics Association, and City National Bank. And we thank everyone who has ever worked for APT. You know that you are all essential to what we do and this is for every single one of you. And this is also for our extraordinary audience, our tenacious, radically committed audience, people who have believed in us and stood with us for 47 years. We are here for you and because of you.
Artistic Director Brenda DeVita: Being from the woods of rural Wisconsin, you might imagine we believe in regional theater. APT is statistically impossible. We only exist because of a deep faith in storytelling, and that when you bring greater artists and a curious audience together, it creates community. And for us, community is the point. We are very lucky to have talents of people from all over the country to come work for us, and when they get there, they're like, "what the hell am I doing here in the middle of nowhere?" until they meet our audience, and they experience poetry under the stars. Then they know whether they're there. And many of them will stop and say, "Wow, I remember why I started doing this in the first place." Because we all know in this room that live theater can crack people open. It can bridge those differences that we've convinced exist between us. And as artists, we live to walk across those bridges. So thank you so much for the opportunity for, like, acknowledging our work in the woods of Wisconsin. We love what we do, and we are so, so, very grateful. Thank you so much.