The 22nd Annual Lucille Lortel nominations announced

The League Of Off-broadway Theatres & Producers have announced the nominations for the 22nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for outstanding achievement Off-broadway.

Spring Awakening leads With 6 nominations, Stuff Happens and The Voysey Inheritance each earn 5 nominations.

The winners of the 2007 Lucille Lortel Awards will be announced at the awards ceremony on the 7 May 2007 at New World Stages. The evening will be hosted by Bebe Neuwirth and Eric Bogosian.

Four special awards will also be presented at the ceremony:

• Lifetime Achievement Award to Kevin Kline,
• Playwrights� Sidewalk Inductee Award to Christipher Durang
  
• The Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence to Rick Sordelet
• Outstanding Body of Work Award to Classical Theatre Of Harlem.
• Special Award to Actors� Fund Of America

Outstanding Play:

• The Busy World Is Hushed
  written by Keith Bunin.
  Produced by Playwrights Horizons.
• Dying City
  Written by Christopher Shinn.
  Produced by Lincoln Center Theater.
• Indian Blood
  Written by A.R. Gurney.
  Produced by Primary Stages.
• Stuff Happens
  Written by David Hare.
  Produced by The Public Theater.

Outstanding Musical:

• Gutenberg! The Musical!
  Music & Lyrics by Scott Brown and Anthony King.
  Produced by Trevor Brown, Ron Kastner, Terry Allen Kramer, Joseph Smith, in association with Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
• In the Heights
  Book by Quiara Alegr�a Hudes, Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
  Produced by Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller, and Jill Furman.
• Spring Awakening
  Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater, Music by Duncan Sheik.
  Produced by Atlantic Theater Company, in association with Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman.
• Striking 12
  Book, Music and Lyrics by Brendan Milburn, Rachel Sheinkin, and Valerie Vigoda.
  Produced by Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Greg Schaffert, in association with Mark Johannes and Amy Danis.

Outstanding Solo Show:

• �El Conquistador!
  Written by Thaddeus Phillips and Tatiana Mallarino in collaboration with Victor Mallarino.
  Produced by New York Theatre Workshop.
  Performed by Thaddeus Phillips.
• No Child�
  Written and performed by Nilaja Sun.
  Produced by Scott Morfee, Tom Wirtshafter and Epic Theatre Center.
• Wrecks
  Written by Neil LaBute.
  Produced by The Public Theater.
  Performed by Ed Harris.

Outstanding Revival:

• King Hedley II
  Written by August Wilson.
  Produced by Signature Theatre Company.
• Landscape of the Body
  Written by John Guare.
  Produced by Signature Theatre Company.
• Two Trains Running
  Written by August Wilson.
  Produced by Signature Theatre Company.
• The Voysey Inheritance
  Written by Harley Granville-Barker, adapted by David Mamet.
  Produced by Atlantic Theater Company.

Outstanding Director:

• Michael Mayer; Spring Awakening.
• PJ Paparelli; columbinus.
• Derrick Sanders; King Hedley II.
• Daniel Sullivan; Stuff Happens.
• David Warren; The Voysey Inheritance

Outstanding Choreographer:

• Hinton Battle; Evil Dead the Musical.
• Andy Blankenbuehler; In the Heights.
• Devanand Janki; Henry and Mudge.
• Bill T. Jones; Spring Awakening.

Outstanding Lead Actor:

• Philip Seymour Hoffman; Jack Goes Boating.
• Russell Hornsby; King Hedley II.
• Peter Francis James; Stuff Happens.
• Lee Pace; Guardians.
• Michael Stuhlbarg; The Voysey Inheritance.

Outstanding Lead Actress:

• Rebecca Brooksher; Dying City.
• Jill Clayburgh; The Busy World Is Hushed.
• Patricia Heaton; The Scene.
• Gloria Reuben; Stuff Happens.
• Laila Robins; Sore Throats.

Outstanding Featured Actor:

• Arthur French; Two Trains Running.
• David Greenspan; Some Men.
• Ron Cephas Jones; Two Trains Running.
• Robert Sella: Stuff Happens.
• Harris Yulin; Frank�s Home.

Outstanding Featured Actress:

• Anna Camp; The Scene.
• Mamie Gummer; The Water�s Edge.
• Nina Hellman; The Internationalist.
• Michele Ragusa; Adrift in Macao.
• Sherie Rene Scott; Landscape of the Body.

Outstanding Scenic Design:

• David Korins; Jack Goes Boating.
• Eugene Lee; The Hairy Ape.
• Anna Louizos; In the Heights.
• Derek McLane; The Voysey Inheritance.
• Allen Moyer; The Busy World is Hushed.

Outstanding Costume Design:

• Gregory Gale; The Milliner.
• Gregory Gale; The Voysey Inheritance.
• Susan Hilferty; Spring Awakening.
• Willa Kim; Adrift in Macao.
• Valerie Marcus Ramshur; Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen.

Outstanding Lighting Design:

• Kevin Adams; Some Men.
• Kevin Adams; Spring Awakening.
• Christopher Akerlind; KAOS.
• Jeff Croiter; The Internationalist.
• Japhy Weideman; Jack Goes Boating.

Outstanding Sound Design:

• John Collins; Faust.
• Martin Desjardins; columbinus.
• Robert Kaplowitz; The Internationalist.
• Brian Ronan; Spring Awakening.
• Eric Shim; Essential Self-Defense.

Productions that received multiple nominations:

The 2007 Lucille Lortel Awards voting committee is appointed by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, Actors� Equity Association, and the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers, and includes journalists, educators, and members of the Off-Broadway community.

Awarded since 1986, the Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the League by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation. Additional support is provided by Theatre Development Fund.