While not the first non-binary artist to win a Tony, Cole Escola is the first to take home the award in this category.

two days after The Tony Awards, that it would close. Cole Escola Wins: They won the Tony for best actor in a play for their performance in the outlandish, ahistoric comedy “Oh, Mary!” ...

Cole Escola, channeling Bernadette Peters, thanked fellow nominees in their speech for their history-making Tony Awards win for "Oh, Mary!" ...

Tony Awards look paid homage to Bernadette Peters. The nominee wore a blue gown took inspiration from Peters' gown from 1999 ...

Cole Escola took home the 2025 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in "Oh, Mary!" ...

Cole Escola accepts the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play at the 2025 Tony Awards on CBS. Clip courtesy of Tony Award Productions©2025.

In an interview on 'Late Night with Seth Meyers', Broadway star Cole Escola also spoke about the significance of wearing a ...

Oh, Mary!' Tony winner Cole Escola joked about Nicole Scherzinger's Tony Awards victory after the latter's Jesus hat ...

"People just want to pit us Broadway gals against each other, and I think it’s sad," the "Oh, Mary!" actor said.

Peters wore a similar frothy blue gown to the 1999 ceremony, where she won the award for best leading actress.

Cole Escola has become the first non-binary actor to win a Tony Award in the Leading Actor in a Play category for their role in Oh, Mary!.