At the final fitting for their custom Wiederhoeft gown ahead of the show, Escola shared their thoughts on Patti LuPone, and a proposal for fixing gendered categories at the Tonys: “They should do it based on where you piss,

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

C ole Escola began their career on YouTube, hilariously dressed in a middling wig, performing a pitch perfect and extremely loopy imitation of Bernadette Peters. Now, after their