Kara Young Joins Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle in Cast of Proof on Broadway

Two-time Tony Award winner Kara Young joins the cast of the first Broadway revival of David Auburn’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof, directed by Tony Award winner Thomas Kail, starting performances on March 31 at the Booth Theatre.

Young will play Claire, replacing the previously announced Samira Wiley, who is withdrawing from Proof with “the production’s complete support and well wishes, due to a treatable medical condition that calls for her full attention.”

Young joins Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe Award winner Ayo Edebiri, Academy Award nominee, two-time Golden Globe Award winner, and 11-time Emmy Award nominee Don Cheadle, and Grammy Award nominee Jin Ha in the cast.

Young made Broadway history last year by being the first Black performer to win two consecutive Tony Awards for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose and Ossie Davis’ Purlie Victorious. She also set a record for four consecutive Tony nominations for Best Featured Actress in a Play and has won two Drama Desk Awards, an Outer Critics Circle Award, an OBIE, a Lucille Lortel Award, and an AUDELCO Award.