{"id":2449473,"date":"2026-06-08T04:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2449473"},"modified":"2026-06-08T04:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:33:45","slug":"caissie-levy-praises-kids-babysitters-at-tony-awards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/caissie-levy-praises-kids-babysitters-at-tony-awards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Caissie Levy Praises Kids\u2019 Babysitters at Tony Awards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Caissie Levy<\/strong> attributed her 2026 Tony Award win, in part, to a support network of babysitters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to \u2026 every babysitter who\u2019s made it possible for me to be both a Broadway actor and a mother,\u201d the mom-of-two, 45, said during her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/tony-awards-2026-nominees-and-winners-see-the-complete-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Awards<\/a> acceptance speech inside New York City\u2019s Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7.<\/p>\n<p>Winning in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her work as Mother in the revival of <em>Ragtime<\/em>, Levy also thanked her children, Izaiah, 10, and Talulah, 5, whom she shares with husband <strong>David Reiser<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to my <em>Ragtime<\/em> family,\u201d Levy began. \u201cPlaying Mother has been one of the greatest gifts of my artistic life, and being mother to my kids has been the greatest joy of my life. Izaiah and Talulah, I love you, and although I\u2019m not there to tuck you in each night, you have to know that part of my heart stays home with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/pictures\/celebrity-parents-praising-their-kids-nannies-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/pictures\/celebrity-parents-praising-their-kids-nannies-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Brianne Howey Gushes Over Nanny\u2019s Assistance During \u2018Ginny and Georgia\u2019<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMany famous working parents aren\u2019t afraid to shout-out their nannies. Thank You! You have successfully subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters Enter your email Please enter a valid email. Subscribe By signing up, I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive emails from Us Weekly Deal of the Day Amazon Shoppers Are \u2018Obsessed\u2019 With [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Levy\u2019s speech, which touched on her childhood dreams of becoming a Broadway star while growing up in Canada, concluded, \u201cI love acting, I love theater, I love this incredible community. I\u2019m so honored, thank you so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Levy also thanked her parents, who joined her at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/stylish\/pictures\/tony-awards-2026-red-carpet-photos-see-what-stars-wore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">awards ceremony<\/a>, and Reiser, a composer and writer. \u201cMy husband, David, where are you \u2014 wave at me, hi \u2014I\u2019m so proud of the life we\u2019ve built together,\u201d she said. \u201cI love you, you\u2019re the best thing that ever happened to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>While <em>Ragtime<\/em> has kept Levy on Broadway since October 2025, the actress stepped away from the Broadway-bound <em>Lost Boys<\/em> musical in November that year due to the demand of her family. She told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/theater\/a71423272\/caissie-levy-ragtime-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Elle<\/em><\/a> in an interview published on May 29 that her children had a \u201cvery difficult start to the school year\u201d and needed more from her. \u201cIt became very obvious in a matter of weeks that there was no way I could go back into a [rehearsal] process [for <em>The Lost Boys<\/em>] and basically be gone for three months straight from my kids\u2019 lives,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Paying tribute to the child care network she referenced in her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/everything-from-2026-tony-awards-you-didnt-see-on-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Awards<\/a> speech, Levy added that their support has been crucial in getting her to where she is today. \u201cI\u2019m very fortunate to have this support system that definitely is integral to making a Broadway schedule work. The babysitters and nannies of the world, they are the heroes of my life, truly, and they always have been,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve had past students of mine become little sisters who have helped me with my children. These young women have literally enabled me to have a career and have a child and be a parent at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/pink-chicago-stars-perform-tony-awards-2026-anniversary-tribute\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg?crop=0px%2C16px%2C2000px%2C1130px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg?crop=0px%2C16px%2C2000px%2C1130px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg?crop=0px%2C16px%2C2000px%2C1130px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg?crop=0px%2C16px%2C2000px%2C1130px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg?crop=0px%2C16px%2C2000px%2C1130px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg?crop=0px%2C16px%2C2000px%2C1130px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg?crop=0px%2C16px%2C2000px%2C1130px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg?crop=0px%2C16px%2C2000px%2C1130px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg?crop=0px%2C16px%2C2000px%2C1130px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg?crop=0px%2C16px%2C2000px%2C1130px&amp;resize=1600%2C900&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg?crop=0px%2C16px%2C2000px%2C1130px&amp;resize=1800%2C1012&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg?crop=0px%2C16px%2C2000px%2C1130px&amp;resize=1920%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"GettyImages-2280405792chicagotonystribute.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/pink-chicago-stars-perform-tony-awards-2026-anniversary-tribute\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Pink, Whitney Leavitt and More Perform \u2018Chicago\u2019 Tribute at 2026 Tonys<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tPast Chicago stars brought all that jazz to the 2026 Tony Awards to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the beloved musical. Whitney Leavitt, Julianne Hough, Pink, Queen Latifah, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Alex Newell, Adrienne Warren, Dylan Mulvaney and more performed multiple during the Sunday, June 7, awards show at Radio City Music Hall in New [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Levy continued, \u201cI am always all about lifting up the babysitters and the nannies and the, sort of, tribes that we lean on to help raise our kids. To get to raise kids in this environment is so amazing, to have them backstage at the theater and have all these aunties and uncles in the cast and crew. It does take a whole village of people to help you do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caissie Levy attributed her 2026 Tony Award win, in part, to a support network of babysitters. \u201cThank you to \u2026 every babysitter who\u2019s made it possible for me to be both a Broadway actor and a mother,\u201d the mom-of-two, 45, said during her Tony Awards acceptance speech inside New York City\u2019s Radio City Music Hall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2449474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[308506,30055,24003,42463],"class_list":["post-2449473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-award-shows","tag-celebrity-moms","tag-celebrity-news","tag-moms"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Caissie-Levy-Praises-Kids-Babysitters-at-Tony-Awards-2026.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449475,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449473\/revisions\/2449475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}