The Lucille Lortel 2017 Award nominations

The League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers have announced the nominations for the 32st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for outstanding achievement Off-Broadway.

The winners of the 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on 7 May 2017 at NYU Skirball Center.

Leading the nominations with 7 a piece are Hadestown, a folk opera produced by New York Theatre Workshop and the revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, currently at the Barrow Street Theatre.

The following special awards will also be presented at this year's ceremony:

• Lifetime Achievement Award: William Ivey Long
• Edith Oliver Service to Off-Broadway Award: Harold Wolpert
• Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee: Lynn Nottage

The 2017 nominations by category are:

Outstanding Play

• Indecent
  written by Paula Vogel
• Oslo
  Written by J.T. Rogers
• Underground Railroad Game
  Written by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard
• Vietgone
  Written by Qui Nguyen
• The Wolves
  Written by Sarah DeLappe

Outstanding Musical

• The Band's Visit
  Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek, Book by Itamar Moses, Based on the screenplay by Eran Kolirin
• Dear Evan Hansen
  Book by Steven Levenson, Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
• Hadestown
  Written by Anaïs Mitchell
• Ride the Cyclone
  Book, Music, and Lyrics by Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond
• The Total Bent
  Text by Stew, Music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald

Outstanding Revival

• The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
  Written by Suzan-Lori Parks
• Othello
  Written by William Shakespeare
• Edward Albee's The Sandbox, María Irene Fornés' Drowning, and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro
  Written by Edward Albee, María Irene Fornés, and Adrienne Kennedy
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Sweet Charity
  Book by Neil Simon, Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by Dorothy Fields

Outstanding Solo Show

• Chris Gethard: Career Suicide
  Written and Performed by Chris Gethard
• Latin History for Morons
  Written and Performed by John Leguizamo
• Notes From The Field
  Created, Written, and Performed by Anna Deave
• The Outer Space
  Book and Lyrics by Ethan Lipton, Music by Ethan Lipton, Vito Dieterle, Eben Levy, and Ian M. Riggs Performed by Ethan Lipton

Outstanding Director

• Will Davis: Men on Boats
• Anne Kauffman: A Life
• Lila Neugebauer: The Wolves
• Bartlett Sher: Oslo
• Rebecca Taichman: Indecent

Outstanding Choreographer

• Joshua Bergasse: Sweet Charity
• David Dorfman: Indecent
• Georgina Lamb: Sweeney Todd
• David Neumann: Hadestown
• David Neumann: The Total Bent

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play

• Reed Birney: Man From Nebraska
• Michael Emerson: Wakey, Wakey
• Lucas Hedges: YEN
• Joe Morton: Turn Me Loose
• David Hyde Pierce: A Life

Outstanding Lead Actress in a play

• Johanna Day: Sweat
• Jennifer Ehle: Oslo
• Jennifer Kidwell: Underground Railroad Game
• Kecia Lewis: Marie and Rosetta
• Maryann Plunkett: Women of a Certain Age

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical

• Ato Blankson-Wood: The Total Bent
• Shuler Hensley: Sweet Charity
• Patrick Page: Hadestown
• Ben Platt: Dear Evan Hansen
• Jeremy Secomb: Sweeney Todd

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical

• Sutton Foster: Sweet Charity
• Amber Gray: Hadestown
• Jo Lampert: Joan of Arc: Into the Fire
• Katrina Lenk: The Band's Visit
• Siobhan McCarthy: Sweeney Todd

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

• Michael Aronov: Oslo
• Charlie Cox: Incognito
• Matthew Maher: Othello
• Justice Smith: YEN
• Paco Tolson: Vietgone

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

• Jocelyn Bioh: Everybody
• Hannah Cabell: The Moors
• Randy Graff: The Babylon Line
• Ari Graynor: YEN
• Nana Mensah: Man From Nebraska

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

• Nathan Lee Graham: The View UpStairs
• Gus Halper: Ride the Cyclone
• Joel Perez: Sweet Charity
• Ari'el Stachel: The Band's Visit
• Chris Sullivan: Hadestown

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  Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

  • Asmeret Ghebremichael: Sweet Charity
  • Rachel Bay Jones: Dear Evan Hansen
  • Betsy Morgan: Sweeney Todd
  • Emily Rohm: Ride the Cyclone
  • Karen Ziemba: Kid Victory

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  Outstanding Scenic Design

  • Scott Davis: Ride the Cyclone
  • Rachel Hauck: Hadestown
  • Laura Jellinek: A Life
  • Mimi Lien: Signature Plays
  • Jason Sherwood: The View UpStairs

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  Outstanding Costume Design

  • Montana Blanco: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead
  • Tilly Grimes: Underground Railroad Game
  • Susan Hilferty: Love, Love, Love
  • Sarah Laux: The Band's Visit
  • Emily Rebholz: Indecent

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  Outstanding Lighting Design

  • Mark Barton: Signature Plays
  • Jane Cox: Othello
  • Greg Hofmann: Ride the Cyclone
  • Amy Mae: Sweeney Todd
  • Ben Stanton: YEN

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  Outstanding Sound Design

  • Mikhail Fiksel: A Life
  • Robert Kaplowitz: Hadestown
  • Stowe Nelson: Small Mouth Sounds
  • Nevin Steinberg: Wakey, Wakey
  • Matt Stine: Sweeney Todd

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  Outstanding Projection Design

  • Elaine McCarthy: Notes From The Field
  • Duncan McLean: Privacy
  • Jared Mezzochi: Vietgone
  • Peter Nigrini: Dear Evan Hansen
  • Peter Nigrini: Wakey, Wakey

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  The 2017 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.