Francis Jue (Heather Gershonowitz)
Jue was honored for his performance in David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face.
With Francis Jue taking home the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play, and in a robust season for Asian-American representation on Broadway, Jue shared in an exclusive interview with Playbill that he hopes we've "maybe created a new crack in that glass ceiling."
Jue received the nod for his performance in David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face, in which the playwright's fictionalized doppelgänger leads protests against yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, but then mistakenly casts a white actor as the Asian lead in one of his own plays.
"Asian actors know that we're not often invited to the red carpet, not always invited to come up on stage and accept awards, and so feel like having had the opportunity to tell an Asian American story—David's father's story—on Broadway, was reward enough, and I never expected this...so this was just really extra!" Jue exclaimed. Watch the full interview in the video above. Yellow Face can currently be streamed on PBS.org.