Rachel Dratch has been nominated for a 2026 Tony Award for best featured actress in a musical for her turn as the narrator in the revival of Schmigadoon! — a recognition that puts the longtime comic and Lexington native squarely back in the Broadway conversation.
The nomination is one of 12 earned by Schmigadoon!, a total that tied the show for the most Tony nods this year and turned the revival into one of the season’s dominant players as the 79th annual Tony Awards honored Broadway’s plays and musicals.
Schmigadoon! began life as an Apple TV series; the revival’s stage life has now translated into awards attention, with Dratch singled out for a supporting role that relies on her comic instincts and a theater-savvy sense of timing rather than the sketch work that first made her a recognizably oddball presence to television audiences.
Dratch’s trajectory is shorthand for a performer who has moved easily between screens and stages. A former Saturday Night Live alum and a Lexington native, she was previously nominated for a Tony in 2022 — best featured actress in a play for POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive — and the new nomination marks a return to the Tonys in a different category and medium.
The timing matters: the 79th annual Tony Awards took place at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2026, with P!nk hosting for the first time. Those facts frame the nomination as part of a concentrated awards moment for Schmigadoon!, but the records collected here list Dratch as a nominee and do not indicate whether she converted the nod into a trophy.
That unresolved outcome is the narrow, practical question the nomination creates: Dratch’s name sits beside the other contenders on the ballot, and the program of nominations has already raised the stakes for the show, but whether the Broadway community honored her with the award is not shown in the available nomination summary.
What the nomination does show, plainly, is that Dratch’s stage work is being judged on its own terms: this is a best featured actress in a musical nod rather than a television or comedy award, and it ties her current visibility to a production that led the field with 12 nominations. For a performer whose career has been defined by turns that blend character work and absurdist timing, the Tony recognition is a formal acknowledgment from the theater world.
The immediate next marker for anyone tracking the outcome is the record of the Tony ceremony at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2026, where winners were revealed; that record will hold the answer to whether Dratch turned the nomination into a win. Until that detail is visible in the awards roll, her nomination stands as the achievement: a high-profile return to Broadway contention and a reminder that her comic voice remains a force onstage as well as on screen.
