YELLOW FACE's Francis Jue Wins 2025 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Francis Jue has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for YELLOW FACE.

Francis Jue earned Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards for the NYC debut of Yellow Face at The Public Theater. His Broadway credits include: Pacific Overtures, Thoroughly Modern Millie, M. Butterfly. Recent theatre credits include Cambodian Rock Band (Lortel Award), Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, Once Upon a Mattress, Babbitt, Good Enemy, Soft Power (Outer Critics Circle Award), Wild Goose Dreams (Obie Award). Film/TV includes “Our Son,” “White Noise,” “Joyful Noise,” “Madam Secretary,” “New Amsterdam,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Hightown.”

Tony Award winner and three-time Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) will make his Roundabout debut with the Broadway premiere of Yellow Face, his hilarious is-he-or-isn’t-he comedy of identity, show business, and (perhaps) autobiography. Starring Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) and directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman (Violet). In this play inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. This Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist play is a laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.