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Influencers are continuing their Broadway takeover!
On Jan. 16, it was announced that popular online content creators Dylan Mulvaney and Abigail Barlow were set to join the cast of Six on Broadway
Mulvaney and Harlow are among the latest to join an ever-growing number of influencers on Broadway — including The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' Whitney Leavitt, who will make her Broadway debut in Chicago, on Feb. 2
The Broadway influencer ensemble is growing!After it was announced last month that social media personality and breakout star ofTheSecret Lives of Mormon WivesWhitney Leavitt, would bemaking her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart inChicago,another round of influencers are set to make theirs as well.Dylan Mulvaney— who gained millions of followers online via her "100 Days of Girlhood" videos documenting her transition on TikTok — will make her Broadway debut in the hit musicalSix,which follows the lives of King Henry VIII's six wives.Mulvaney (who uses she/they pronouns) will step into the role of the English king's second and arguably most famous wife, Anne Boleyn.Also making her Broadway debut in the show is content creator and composerAbigail Barlow, who will step into the role of Katherine Howard. Barlow, 27, rose to fame on social media after writing and posting songs from a musical based off of the hit Netflix showBridgerton,titledThe Unofficial Bridgerton Musical —which ultimatelywon a Grammy in 2022for Best Musical Theater Album.
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Though a lawsuit from Netflix ultimately shut down the musical's hopes of going anywhere, the online acclaim it garnered propelled Barlow and her writing partner Emily Bear into the spotlight.The writing duo (known together as Barlow & Bear) were even able to replaceMoanacomposer Lin-Manuel Miranda, writing songs for the movie's sequel which came out in 2024.
Both Mulvaney, 29, and Barlow are no stranger to musical theater. Mulvaney — who has a BFA in musical theatre from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music — also recently made her off-Broadway debut inThe Least Problematic Woman in the World, which PEOPLE exclusively revealed in July 2025.Following a limited run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland last year,Least Problematicmade its way to New York City. Formerly titledF--hag, theCalifornia native's one-woman show, which she also wrote, began performances on Sept. 20, with a subsequent limited run from Oct. 7 to Nov. 30.
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Mulvaney opened up to PEOPLE about what prompted her to write the show, which was born from "Beergate," Mulvaney's own coinage forthe conservative backlash to her 2023 sponsored video for Bud Light. (Upset that the brand partnered with a transgender woman, critics called for a boycott of the brand and filmed themselves lighting beer boxes on fire.)At the time, the star recalled, "I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I need to get back on stage, and it's really hard to get cast as a trans person right now in theater.' So I was like, 'I need to write something.' "She also previously acted in the national tour of beloved musicalThe Book of Mormon, performing the role of Elder White.
Barlow, for her part, graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts and received training at the Birmingham Dance Theatre.
Original cast members Adrianna Hicks and Anna Uzele will also return for the run as Catherine of Aragon and Catherine Parr, respectively; and 2024 cast member Olivia Donalson will reprise her role as Anna of Cleves.
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