The actress and influencer, 29, is currently starring in 'Six' on Broadway
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- Dylan Mulvaney highlights the importance of more transgender representation on Broadway, calling for more “dolls” in theater
- Mulvaney is currently starring as Anne Boleyn in Six
- “We need more dolls on Broadway. Let’s get them there,” she tells PEOPLE
Dylan Mulvaney wants to see more representation on Broadway.
At the CATS: The Jellicle Ball opening night in New York City, PEOPLE asked the actress and TikTok star what she loves most about being on Broadway, and her answer was clear.
“Honestly, I think the other dolls on Broadway," Mulvaney, who is currently starring in Six, shares. "It is a community."
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“We need more dolls on Broadway. Let's get them there,” Mulvaney, 29, adds.
“Dolls” is a term of endearment commonly used to refer to trans women or transfeminine people. Mulvaney herself rose to fame online in 2022 while documenting her transition with the viral series “Days of Girlhood.”
CATS: The Jellicle Ball is a revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's worldwide phenomenon and is based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The musical follows a tribe of felines reimagined as members of the Harlem ballroom scene — the electric, deeply influential underground LGBTQ subculture created by Black and Latinx queer and trans communities in the 1980s — as they gather for their annual Jellicle Ball, where one will be chosen to ascend to the Heaviside Layer and be reborn.
The Jellicle Ball stars “Tempress” Chasity Moore, a trans woman playing Grizabella, whose rendition of the showstopper “Memory” brings the house down.
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Mulvaney, meanwhile, is currently starring as Anne Boleyn in Broadway's hit Six. In January 2026, she shared a TikTok announcing the big news.
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“My first instinct was to come on here and try to convince those people that I do have what it takes to be a Broadway performer and to tell you why,” Mulvaney, who earned a BFA in musical theatre from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, said. “But then I realized that I shouldn't waste my own breath on that.”
“This is a miracle. It's a miracle for anyone to make it to Broadway, and there are so many incredible performers that deserve to be, and I genuinely hope that they will," she continued. "But being a trans person in 2026, when this world is working against us in what feels like every way — for me to be able to step out onto a Broadway stage as Anne Boleyn and perform an iconic historical character's role in a show that is so rooted in celebrating femininity, I think that's a miracle.”
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