Who won Best Choreography at the 2026 Tony Awards for Cats: The Jellicle Ball?

Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons won Best Choreography at the 2026 Tony Awards for Cats: The Jellicle Ball. Their work shaped the production’s movement language and helped translate ballroom culture into a Broadway musical framework.

Ballroom is a competitive performance culture with deep roots in Black and Latino LGBTQ+ communities. It includes categories such as vogue, runway, and dramatic presentation, with performers judged within a structured community setting. Cats: The Jellicle Ball uses that vocabulary to reinterpret the Jellicle gathering at the heart of Cats.

The choreography award is separate from Best Direction of a Musical, which also went to Cats: The Jellicle Ball in 2026 for Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch. Direction oversees the production as a whole, while choreography focuses specifically on movement, dance composition, and physical storytelling.