Overview

• Cole Escola won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for their role in Oh, Mary! at Radio City Music Hall
• They became the first nonbinary performer to secure a Tony in any play acting category
• They arrived on the red carpet in a custom silver-blue Wiederhoeft gown inspired by Bernadette Peters’ 1999 Tony look and wore a matching curly wig
• In their acceptance speech they thanked their mother, director Sam Pinkleton, comedian Amy Sedaris, fellow nominees George Clooney, Jon Michael Hill, Daniel Dae Kim, Harry Lennix and Louis McCartney, and a Grindr date named T Bone
• On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert they said they were eager to play a straight character in a future role