Katie Finneran: Best Acceptance Speech?
Katie Finneran’s acceptance speech had a few of us welling up. Here’s the part where she mentions how much she loved the Tony Awards as a kid watching them on TV: “Back then it felt so far away… And all of us here still feel the same way… Focus on what you love. It’s the greatest roadmap for an extraordinary life.”
I think at that point I was aww-ing out loud, a noise that only intensified after Katie talked about how important love is, and how lost she’d be without her fiance Darren Goldstein. Of their relationship she said, “There’s nothing better than feeling known. We totally support each other…. I was really glad that he was there with me tonight.”
In person she’s just as entertaining as onstage. She kept everyone in the Press Room laughing during her Q&A, particularly when she demonstrated a very convincing impression of a screech owl, which I won’t soon forget. It was that creepily good.
