Jesse Tyler Ferguson of ABC’s award-winning comedy series, “Modern Family,” will speak at Goldstein Auditorium on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 8 p.m.

University Union Performing Arts will host “An Evening with ‘Modern Family’s’ Jesse Tyler Ferguson.” The LGBT Resource Center and the television, radio and film department of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will co-sponsor the event. Doors will open at 7:15 p.m.

Tickets will go on sale Monday at the Schine Student Center Box Office at 11 a.m. Students, faculty and staff of Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry can purchase up to four tickets for $5 a ticket.

Ferguson plays Mitchell Pritchett on Modern Family and has been nominated for three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He has also appeared in Broadway musicals, including a role in the Tony Award-winning “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”

The actor got his start in CBS sitcom “The Class” before moving to ABC for “Modern Family” in 2009. He has also appeared as a guest judge on “So You Think You Can Dance” and in two episodes of “Ugly Betty.”