Cats: The Jellicle Ball wins design awards but loses Best Revival

Costume designer and founder of Black Trans Liberation, Qween Jean, made Tony Awards history, becoming the first openly trans person to win the award. Jean won for Best Costume Design of a Musical for Cats: The Jellicle Ball. By: Diep Tran #BlackskyNews #Pride playbill.com/article/qwee...

Qween Jean won the Tony Award for best costume design of a musical on Sunday for her work on “Cats: The Jellicle Ball.” The costume designer and activist has become the first openly transgender person to win a Tony, according to a publicist for the show. trib.al/I5Rmi1i

Congratulations to Qween Jean on her shiny new, very first Tony!! She is taking home Best Costume Design (Musical) for "Cats: The Jellicle Ball." Her win makes her the first out trans winner of a Tony! #tonyawards

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jun Broadway Qween Jean becomes st 1trans person to win a Tony Award, earning Best Costume Design for Musical for "Cats: The Jellicle Ball." She was also nominated for "Liberation." This marks her 1stnominations and only the 2nd time a trans person had been nominated.

Cats: The Jellicle Ball is THAT much fun, an absolute joy bomb. I'm gonna see it twice more!

My doll ❤️ CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL co-producer Law Roach on the red carpet at the 79th Annual #TonyAwards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

"We have to take up space. We have to shift the paradigm." Qween Jean made Tony Awards history as the first openly transgender Tony Award winner after receiving the award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for Cats: The Jellicle Ball #NOH8

BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, Cats: The Jellicle Ball #TonyAwards newyorktheater.me/2026/06/07/2...

I am a sucker for speeches that directly address closeted kids watching at home. I love Cats: The Jellicle Ball so much.

The problem with the jellicle ball is… it’s still the songs from cats.

pink really said “this year was hard for trans people, so we gave you cats the jellicle ball”

This one should have made the main broadcast!! Qween Jean just became the first openly trans person to win a Tony! Qween won Best Costume Design for a Musical for Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Immediately before the Tonys telecast began, I bought two good tickets in July to Cats The Jellicle Ball for me and my mother before they triple in price. This is my version of playing the market.

It was a stunning production but the imagination and skill that went into Jellicle Ball is generational.

Now proud possessors of Jellicle Ball tickets (which neither of us have seen) *and* tickets to see Meg Statler in Oh Mary (a show I have seen but he has not)