Cole Escola poses with best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play award for "Oh, Mary!" at the 78th annual Tony Awards in New York City on June 8, 2025.

Tony Award winner Cole Escola (Oh, Mary!) is set to star opposite Melissa McCarthy in Margie Claus, an upcoming holiday musical comedy from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, the studio announced today.

Escola accepted the award in a silvery-blue gown inspired by Bernadette Peters's look at the 1999 ceremony. Actor Kara Young made history as the first Black person to win two Tonys consecutively for ...

Cole Escola makes Tony Awards history as first nonbinary best leading actor in a play Cole Escola accepts the best leading actor in a play award for "Oh, Mary!" during the 78th annual Tony Awards at ...

Escola's ensemble paid homage to Peters' gown from 1999 when she won a Tony for 'Annie Get Your Gun' Cole Escola is honoring a Broadway icon through their style. At the 2025 Tony Awards in New ...

While not the first non-binary artist to win a Tony Award, Cole Escola is the first to win in the ‘Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play’ category. The actor took to the stage in a ...

— Cole Escola’s madcap dark comedy about a miserable Mary Todd Lincoln in the lead-up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination — did, however, earn Sam Pinkleton the award for Best Direction of ...

Cole Escola and Sam Pinkleton, the star and director of Oh, Mary!, respectively, were freshly minted Tony winners as they entered the press room—but that didn’t change the fact that they’re ...

Video Content: Following their Tony win for Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola visited Late Night with Seth Meyers this week to discuss the honor, the continued success of the play, and what it is like ...

Bernadette Peters is shouting out Cole Escola 's style homage. After Escola, 37, rocked a custom gown inspired by Peters for the 2025 Tony Awards, the Broadway legend is sharing her thoughts on ...

Cole Escola is making it clear that a joke they made at this year’s Tony Awards was not an intentional dig at Nicole Scherzinger.