"Purpose" made it's pre-Broadway world premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 2024. Young picked up the award for best ...

Kara Young has made history. On Sunday night, Young won her second Tony Award for best actress in a featured role in a play ...

Kara Young has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for PURPOSE.

The best new play trophy at Sunday's Tony Awards went to “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an ...

Jenkins’ “Purpose” won best play, and Kara Young took home the award for best performance by and actress in a featured role ...

Young’s work has earned her a Tony Award nomination and a chance to make history. Already the first Black person to be ...

Kara Young has already made Tony Award history by becoming the first Black person to receive Tony acting nominations in four ...

Kara Young has starred in four Broadway plays and been Tony-nominated for all of them. The actress still can't believe it ...

The Broadway star, one of two actresses nominated for four consecutive years, won best featured actress in a play last year ...

Kara Young made history on Sunday when she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Purpose, becoming the first black performer to win two consecutive Tony Awards.

Jacobs-Jenkins calls Aziz in his script a “deeply perceptive person and empathetic” and that could also apply to Young, She says she closely identifies with her character in “Purpose ...