Emmy winners with state ties include Nash-Betts for ‘Dahmer’
Niecy Nash-Betts won a Primetime Emmy Monday night for her performance as Milwaukee woman Glenda Cleveland in “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”
“I accept this award,” Nash-Betts said onstage, “on behalf of every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard yet overpoliced, like Glenda Cleveland,” who tried again and again to get Milwaukee police to investigate her neighbor, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
If it feels like “Dahmer” series aired a long time ago, that’s because it did: The show debuted on Netflix in September 2022, just after that year’s Primetime Emmys. But the Hollywood actors and writers strikes pushed the Emmys telecast from September 2023 to this week.
Monday night’s big winners were “Succession,” which won six Emmys including best drama series, and “The Bear,” which also won six Emmys, including the award for best comedy series. “Beef,” the Netflix comedy, won five Emmys Monday in the limited or anthology series categories.
The Creative Arts Emmys — the Television Academy’s event for most of the Primetime Emmys’ technical awards and some of the acting honors — were doled out Jan. 6-7 in Los Angeles.
Among the winners that weekend were:
Judith Light, who
● spent part of her early stage career with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, won for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series for Peacock’s “Poker Face.”
Noah Mitz, who went
● to Nicolet High School, collected his second Emmy as part of the team that won the award for outstanding lighting design/ lighting direction for a variety series, for “Dancing With the Stars.”
Chris Smith — who
● studied film at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and broke through with his made-inMilwaukee documentary “American Movie” — won his first Primetime Emmy Sunday, sharing the award for outstanding cinematography for a nonfiction program for “100 Foot Wave.”