NATAS-PSW Announces Host for this Year’s Regional Emmy® Awards

Actor Marcus Scribner, who portrays Andre Jr. on ABC’s highly rated comedy, “blackish,” will host the 42nd annual Pacific Southwest Emmy® Awards

NATAS-PSW Emmy Awards host Marcus Scribner.

Scriber has received an NAACP Image Award and the show was just honored with the prestigious Peabody Award.

The actor can also be seen as the rambunctious dinosaur Buck in Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur.” He also has a new Dreamworks animated series coming in the fall.

A competitive Lacrosse player for the past seven years, Scribner also loves football and basketball. He’s a Los Angeles Lakers fan.

An honors student, he hopes to attend a Pac-12 University such as his top choices, Stanford and UCLA.

Scribner is learning guitar and still plays a beautiful clarinet he received on the set of his first film.

On his hiatus, Scribner travels the world, including the Caribbean and Africa doing humanitarian work, helping to bring higher education to children in need. He’s the first Youth Ambassador for The Beaches Resorts and Sandals Foundation. He also works with Reserve Protection Agency in South Africa.

The NATAS-PSW Emmy® Awards, being held Saturday, June 11, 2016 at Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage, Calif., bring together TV and media professionals from the all over the region, including San Diego, Bakersfield, Palm Springs, San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara and Las Vegas.