On Sunday night, Ali Stroker became the first person who uses a wheelchair to win a Tony Award.

“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,” Ms. Stroker said while accepting her statuette for her role as Ado Annie in the Broadway revival of the musical “Oklahoma!.”

In addition to thanking the musical’s cast, she thanked “her home team” — “my best friends, who have held my hands and pulled me around New York City for years helping me.”

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Ms. Stroker, a 31-year-old New Jersey native who lost the use of her legs in a car accident when she was 2 years old, also thanked her parents “for teaching me to use my gifts to help people.”