Joe Keery, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Rachel Bloom are drawing Tony Award attention during Broadway’s 2024 season. The talk centers on performances in Appropriate and Rachel Bloom: Death, Let Me Do My Show, not on any nominations already in hand.
Keery and Louis-Dreyfus in Appropriate
Keery is being discussed as a contender for Best Featured Actor in a Play, while Louis-Dreyfus is being discussed for Best Actress in a Play. Both are on Broadway in Appropriate, the Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play that also includes Sarah Paulson in the cast.
For Keery, the awards chatter follows the kind of stage turn that can shift a screen actor’s profile fast. He is known for playing Steve Harrington on Stranger Things, and the line now being attached to his performance is blunt: “He’s not just showing up; he’s truly inhabiting this role.”
Rachel Bloom's solo show
Bloom’s case is built differently. She is performing in Rachel Bloom: Death, Let Me Do My Show, a one-woman Broadway show that keeps the attention on a single performer rather than an ensemble. That gives her a cleaner awards lane than a crowded cast production, where votes can split across multiple names.
Louis-Dreyfus arrives in the same conversation with a very different résumé. She has won 11 Emmy Awards for Seinfeld and Veep, and that kind of TV track record can make Broadway voters look twice when the stage work lands in a category like Best Actress in a Play.
What Broadway is weighing
The story is centered on awards buzz, but it does not turn that buzz into a nomination. During Broadway’s 2024 season, the practical question is whether the performances stay visible long enough to survive the full voting window and whether the field around them narrows as Tony nominations draw closer.
That is why the conversation matters now, not later. Screen stars crossing into Broadway are common enough; what is less routine is three names at once getting serious traction in the same awards cycle, with Appropriate and Bloom each offering a different path to the Tony Awards.
