Stage and screen stars Kristin Chenoweth and Neil Patrick Harris will announce the nominees for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards next month.
Chenoweth and Harris will make the announcement July 17 at 8:40 ET at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood, CA. They will be joined by John Shaffner, the chairman and CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards will be presented Sept. 21. ABC-TV will broadcast the event live from the NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles beginning at 8 PM ET.
Kristin Chenoweth, who received a Tony nomination for her work as Glinda in Stephen Schwartz’s Wicked, has been seen on the New York stage in The Fantasticks, Scapin, Steel Pier, A New Brain, Epic Proportions, Strike Up the Band, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Apple Tree, Stairway to Paradise and Candide. The actress won her Tony Award for her performance as Sally Brown in the Broadway bow of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Chenoweth recently released her second solo recording, “As I Am” (Sony Classical), and her screen credits include “Kristin,” “The West Wing,” “The Music Man,” “The Pink Panther,” “Stranger Than Fiction,” “Deck the Halls” and “Running with Scissors.” Chenoweth can currently be seen on the new ABC series “Pushing Daisies.”
Neil Patrick Harris has been seen on Broadway in Assassins, Cabaret and Proof. He appeared in the Geffen Playhouse’s production of All My Sons as well as the L.A. company of Rent, the Reprise! production of Sweeney Todd and the London mounting of tick, tick . . . BOOM! His screen credits include the current “How I Met Your Mother” as well as “Undercover Brother,” “Doogie Howser, M.D.,” “Stark Raving Mad” and “Joan of Arc.”
