Nominations for The 33rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards announced
Lucille Lortel Nominees this year include Michael Urie, Harry Crudup, Carrie Coon, Ashley Park, Lesli Margherita, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, and many more.
The Off-Broadway League has announced the nominations for The 33rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for outstanding achievement Off-Broadway. The nominations were announced by Broadway favorites and Lucille Lortel Award recipients Rachel Bay Jones and Steven Pasquale.
The winners of the 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Sunday, May 6, 2018 at NYU Skirball Center from 7pm EST.
Leading the nominations with nine is the immersive Korean Pop musical KPOP, which also featured Mean Girls star Ashley Park, whilst the most nominated play this year is New York Theatre Workshop's production of Mary Jane, starring Tony & Emmy Award nominee Carrie Coon.
The following special awards will also be presented at this year's ceremony:
Lifetime Achievement Award: Eve Ensler
Outstanding Body of Work Award: WP Theater
Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee: Michael Friedman
The 2018 nominations by category are:
Outstanding Play
Cost of Living
written by Martyna Majok
Written by Marc Bovino, Joe Curnutte, Michael Dalto, Lila Neugebauer and Stephanie Wright Thompson
Pipeline
Written by Dominique Morisseau
School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play
Written by Jocelyn Biohn
Written by Max Posner
Outstanding Musical
Bella: An American Tall Tale
Book, Music and Lyrics by Kirsten Childs
Book and Lyrics by Peter Kellogg, Music by David Friedman
Written by the Bengsons and Sarah Gancher
Music and Lyrics by Richard Thomas, Book and additional Lyrics by Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas
KPOP
Conceived by Woodshed Collective and Jason Kim, Book by Jason Kim, Music and Lyrics by Helen Park and Max Vernon, Immersive Design by Woodshed Collective
Outstanding Revival
F**king A
Written by Suzan-Lori Parks
In the Blood
Written by Suzan-Lori Parks
Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis
The Government Inspector
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from Revizor by Nikolai Gogol
Written by Harvey Fierstein
Outstanding Solo Show
Written by David Cale, performed by Billy Crudup
Written by Matthew Lombardo, performed by Lesli Margherita
Outstanding Director
Lileana Blain-Cruz: Pipeline
Michael Greif: The Low Road
Anne Kauffman: Mary Jane
Lila Neugebauer: Miles for Mary
Leigh Silverman: Harry Clarke
Outstanding Choreographer
Camille A. Brown: Bella: An American Tall Tale
Bill Castellino: Desperate Measures
Byron Easley: X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation
Sonya Tayeh: The Lucky Ones
Jennifer Weber: KPOP
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play
Sean Carvajal: Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train
Peter Friedman: The Treasurer
Chukwudi Iwuji: The Low Road
Namir Smallwood: Pipeline
Michael Urie: Torch Song
Outstanding Lead Actress in a play
Quincy Tyler Bernstine: The Amateurs
MaameYaa Boafo: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play
Carrie Coon: Mary Jane
Cristin Milioti: After the Blast
Karen Pittman: Pipeline
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical
Damon Daunno: The Lucky Ones
Steven Eng: Pacific Overtures
Terrence Mann: Jerry Springer — The Opera
Wade McCollum: Ernest Shackleton Loves Me
James Seol: KPOP
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical
Abigail Bengson: Hundred Days
Ashley D. Kelley: Bella: An American Tall Tale
Julia Knitel: A Letter to Harvey Milk
Lauren Molina: Desperate Measures
Ashley Park: KPOP
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Marc Bovino: Miles for Mary
Edi Gathegi: Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train
Gregg Mozgala: Cost of Living
Paul Sparks: Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and The Zoo Story
John Tufts: Pride and Prejudice
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Vanessa Aspillaga: Amy and the Orphans
Quincy Tyler Bernstine: As You Like It
Liza Colón-Zayas: Mary Jane
Mirirai Sithole: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play
Katy Sullivan: Cost of Living
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Sean Patrick Doyle: Jerry Springer — The Opera
Brandon Gill: Bella: An American Tall Tale
Paolo Montalban: Bella: An American Tall Tale
Thom Sesma: Pacific Overtures
Jason Tam: KPOP
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Tiffany Mann: Jerry Springer - The Opera
Maryann Plunkett: The Lucky Ones
Myra Lucretia Taylor: The Lucky Ones
Adina Verson: The Lucky Ones
Outstanding Scenic Design
Anna Fleischle: Hangmen
Laura Jellinek: Mary Jane
Amy Rubin: Miles for Mary
Louisa Thompson: In the Blood
Outstanding Costume Design
Dede M. Ayite: Bella: An American Tall Tale
Dede M. Ayite: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play
Tricia Barsamian: KPOP
Tilly Grimes: The Government Inspector
Emily Rebholz: The Low Road
Outstanding Lighting Design
Alan C. Edwards: Harry Clarke
Bradley King: The Treasurer
Ben Stanton: The Low Road
Japhy Weideman: Mary Jane
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew: KPOP
Outstanding Sound Design
Mikhail Fiksel: The Treasurer
Leah Gelpe: Mary Jane
Bray Poor: The Last Match
Bray Poor: Office Hour
Brandon Wolcott: After the Blast
Outstanding Projection Design
Lucy Mackinnon: After the Blast
Alexander V. Nichols: Ernest Shackleton Loves Me
Brad Peterson: The Stone Witch
Hannah Wasileski: Pipeline
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew: Relevance
The 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards voting committee is appointed by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, Actors' Equity Association, the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers, and the Lucille Lortel Foundation, and includes theatre journalists, academics and other Off-Broadway professionals.
Awarded since 1986, the Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the League by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation.
(KPOP photo by Ben Arons, Mary Jane photo by Joan Marcus)
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