{"id":273915,"date":"2026-05-17T01:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273915\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T01:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:42:24","slug":"fsu-grad-christiani-pitts-nominated-for-a-tony-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273915\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU grad Christiani Pitts nominated for a Tony Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 15, 2026, 5:07 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/local\/fsu-news\/2026\/05\/13\/fsu-aslc-continues-free-movies-for-students-after-5-fee-is-announced\/90046206007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Florida State University<\/a>\u00a0graduate who takes the stage as\u00a0an actress, singer and dancer\u00a0is among Broadway\u2019s best being considered for a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/05\/05\/tony-awards-2026-nominations\/89949586007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Tony Award<\/a>\u00a0this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Christiani Pitts \u2013 a 2015 FSU graduate \u2013 has been nominated\u00a0in the\u00a02026 American Theatre Wing\u2019s\u00a079th\u00a0Annual\u00a0Tony Awards\u00a0for\u00a0Best Performance by\u00a0an Actress\u00a0in a Leading Role in a Musical for playing Robin\u00a0in\u00a0the production <a href=\"https:\/\/twostrangersmusical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">\u201cTwo Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York).\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 15, 2026, 5:07 a.m. ET A\u00a0Florida State University\u00a0graduate who takes the stage as\u00a0an actress, singer and dancer\u00a0is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,16957,112356,7388,7389,8333,7101,15374,2380,97,89,343,2099,96,62300,35,117057,232,234,233,34],"class_list":["post-273915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-accessmetered","tag-ny","tag-sourcetallahassee-democrat","tag-sstsnewslocalfsu-news","tag-sstsnfsu-news","tag-tagacting-theater","tag-tagalumni","tag-tagbroadway-musical-theater","tag-tagcelebrities-entertainment-news","tag-tagcolleges-universities","tag-tagflorida-state-university","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagnew-york","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagrecording-industry","tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-tagtony-awards","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}