Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, songwriters known in Broadway circles for crafting the score to “Dear Evan Hansen,” won a joint Emmy Award on Sept. 8 for penning the original song “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” from an episode of the television series “Only Murders in the Building.” The Sept. 8 slate of awards served as the second of two nights of “Creative Arts Emmys,” following winners that were announced on Sept. 7.
With Pasek and Paul’s win, the duo becomes the 20th and 21st artists to “EGOT” — having now won awards from the Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and Tonys. Pasek and Paul share this Emmy win with the song’s co-writers, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Oscar nominees and Tony-winning veterans who won a pair of Grammys for cast albums to their musicals “Hairspray” and “Some Like It Hot”).
Pasek and Paul’s EGOT lead-up triumphs include a pair of Grammy wins (for the “Dear Evan Hansen” cast album and the “Greatest Showman” soundtrack), an Oscar win for penning the song “City of Stars” from “La La Land” and, of course, a Tony for their original score to “Dear Evan Hansen” as well as another Tony as producers of the Best Musical winner “A Strange Loop.”
In addition to Pasek and Paul, a notable 2024 Creative Arts Emmy winner is Broadway’s Karla Puno Garcia, who won for her choreography of the 76th Annual Tony Awards, specifically for crafting the opening number and the lifetime achievement segment of the ceremony. Garcia is a Main Stem veteran who was the choreographer of the 2024 musical “Days of Wine and Roses.” She also contributed movement to “The Cher Show” and was a performer in “Hamilton,” “Gigi,” “West Side Story” and “Hot Feet.”
Alan Cumming, a Broadway veteran and two-time Tony winner (for acting in “Cabaret” and producing “A Strange Loop”) won an Emmy as Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program for the series for “The Traitors.”
Furthermore, Angela Bassett, an Academy Award-honored Broadway alum who has been seen onstage in “The Mountaintop,” “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” took home the 2024 Emmy for narrating the National Geographic feature “Queens”; the win marks Bassett’s first Emmy win, after having received eight prior Primetime and two prior Daytime Emmy nominations.
Remaining 76th Primetime Emmy Award winners will be presented in a live ceremony scheduled to air on ABC on Sept. 15 at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PST.
