Watch Ali Stroker’s historic Tony Award acceptance speech below.
Broadway actress Ali Stroker (age 31) made history by becoming the first actor in a wheelchair to win theater’s biggest honor, dedicating her win to kids with disabilities.
Thank you. Thank you so much. This award is for every kid who is watching tonight, who has a disability, who has a limitation or a challenge, who has been waiting to see themselves represented in this arena. You are!
– Ali Stroker
Ali Stroker won the Tony for Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Ado Annie in a dark and edgy revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 classic “Oklahoma!”.
A car accident left Ali Stroker paralyzed from the chest down when she was only two years old. She grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and is a graduate of NYU.
Ali Stroker made her Broadway debut in 2015 in a revival of “Spring Awakening”.
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