Comedy power couple Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman will host Film Independent’s 2022 Spirit Awards show. Winners of the Spirit Awards will be revealed in-person on March 6 in Santa Monica and will air exclusively on IFC and stream on AMC+ at 5 pm ET.
A star of television, stage and screen, Mullally is an Emmy® winning actor and musician known for her work as Karen Walker on the hit sitcom Will & Grace, and Broadway revivals of Grease, It’s Only a Play, and How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, and the original Broadway production of Young Frankenstein. Additional credits include seven seasons of the Emmy Award-winning Children’s Hospital, Parks and Recreation (as Tammy 2), Lydia on Party Down, Aunt Gayle on the animated FOX series Bob’s Burgers and Alyson on The Great North. In film, Megan has starred opposite Bryan Cranston in the hit comedy Why Him? and appeared in LEMON, The Disaster Artist, Smashed, and Infinity Baby. In recent years, Mullally has toured the world as the bandleader, singer and choreographer of the beloved band, Nancy And Beth.
Offerman is an acclaimed actor, author, and woodworker and co-host and executive producer of Making It. Best known as the character Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec, Offerman’s recent and upcoming projects include Pam & Tommy, Devs, The Last of Us, and the reboot of A League of Their Own. He has written five New York Times bestselling books, including his latest, "Where the Deer and the Antelope Play," and publishes the Substack newsletter Donkey Thoughts.
Together Mullally and Offerman have toured the U.S. and U.K. with their comedy show Summer of 69: No Apostrophe and released The New York Times best-selling book, "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told."
Past Spirit Awards hosts have included Melissa Villaseñor, Aubrey Plaza, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, Kate McKinnon and Kumail Nanjiani, Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell, Patton Oswalt, Andy Samberg, Joel McHale, Sarah Silverman, Samuel L. Jackson, Queen Latifah and John Waters.
