Billy Porter To Recognize Theatre Education Award Winner

Carnegie Mellon Alumni To Present and Receive Honors at the Tony Awards. Tony and Grammy award-winner Billy Porter will take the stage at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards to honor an educator who has amplified her students' voices through theater. He is one of several Carnegie Mellon University alumni who will be presenting awards and receiving honors for their work. Porter, a Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama alumnus and star of FX's "Pose," will introduce the 2019 Excellence in Theatre Education Award winner Madeline Michel , a theater teacher from Monticello High School in Charlottesville, Virginia, during the telecast. The live CBS broadcast, which honors the best on Broadway, will air at 8 p.m. ET June 9 from Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The Excellence in Theatre Education Award was co-founded in 2014 by the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon to recognize top K-12 drama teachers and to celebrate arts education. Michel is the fifth recipient of the annual award.