Cynthia Erivo to be Honored at HRC’s National Dinner

metroweekly.com:

As Ben Platt said to Cynthia Erivo, as she joined him onstage in June during a performance of his Live at the Palace stint at Broadway’s Palace Theatre, “It was very clear then that you were destined to the stratosphere.”Platt was referring to a period nearly a decade ago, when Erivo starred in The Color Purple on Broadway, while he starred across the street in Dear Evan Hansen.

Erivo is, indeed, well on her way to stratospheric celebrity, three-quarters of the journey to being queened an “EGOT,” shorthand for someone who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.

While she may not have an Oscar just yet, Erivo has been twice nominated for that particular honor, so chances are it’s only a matter of time.Come Sept.

7, though, it will be time for yet another honor, as Erivo arrives in Washington to accept the Human Rights Campaign’s National Equality Award at the leading LGBTQ organization’s annual National Dinner in Washington. “It is an incredible honor to be receiving this year’s National Equality award and to be recognized by some of our country’s most prolific LGBTQ+ advocates fighting for equality,” the 37-year-old said in an HRC release announcing the award, which will be presented by Leslie Odom Jr., himself of song, stage and screen fame.“Being Black and queer and femme, I deeply understand that there is beauty in intersectionality and the more those voices are given the space to grow and thrive, the closer we get to acceptance of one another as we are.