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Kara Young on Her Back-to-Back (to Back to Back) Tony Nominations


After four years of Tony nominations, a Met Gala red carpet, and performing in Pulitzer Prize winner Purpose, Kara Young is still going and going.

She then drives him to his family event, where she gets stuck due to a snow storm, only to learn that Naz’s father, Sonny (Harry Lennix), is an iconic civil-rights activist and his brother Junior (Glenn Davis) is a disgraced senator who just got out of prison. I want to tell people about the Pulitzer Prize–winning Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play directed by Phylicia Rashad starring LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix, Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis, and Jon Michael Hill, and myself. Harry Lennix and I had conversations around the immaculate conception of the prospective child — Naz gets to a certain moment in his life in order to provide the seed, and it is honoring God’s majesty in the most profound way.

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