Alan Cumming has been tapped to host the 2025 Clio Awards, which will be handed out at a ceremony taking place next month in New York.
The Tony and Emmy winner will emcee the 66th annual awards, which honors creativity and in advertising and marketing from around the world. Also during the ceremony, organizers will present the Grand Clio Awards, the competition’s highest honor.
A preliminary shortlist of all of the awards across social media, commercials, public relations, brand partnerships, activations and more will be announced April 14. Winners will be recognized May 13 at Cipriani 25 Broadway.
Previous Clio Awards hosts have included Andy Cohen, Chelsea Handler and Anthony Anderson.
Cumming won two Emmys for his role as host and producer of reality competition series The Traitors. He also won two Tonys, for best actor in a musical for Cabaret and best musical for A Strange Loop, on which he served as a producer.
His other screen credits include The Good Wife, for which he earned three Emmy noms; V13; X2: X Men United; The High Life; Sex and the City; Goldeneye; Doctor Who; Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion; Schmigadoon; Broad City; and Robogobo.
Onstage, he has also starred in a one-man production of Macbeth and a one-man dance show about Scottish poet Robert Burns. He hosted the 69th annual Tony Awards with Kristin Chenoweth in 2015, which earned him another Emmy nom. (He’s landed a total of seven.)
Cumming is also an LGBTQ+ activist and the author of seven books, including a New York Times No. 1 bestselling memoir. He performs in concert regularly in halls around the world, and co-owns his own, eponymous cabaret bar, Club Cumming, which is described as a home for “all ages, all genders, all colors, all sexualities, where kindness is all and anything could happen!”
In addition, he had a photo exhibition titled Alan Cumming Snaps! and launched an award-winning fragrance named Cumming.
