Lucille Lortel Nominations Announced

The nominations are in for this season's Lucille Lortel Awards. Named after the legendary producer and theatre owner, the awards honor achievement in the Off-Broadway theatre scene. The design nominations include:

Outstanding Scenic Design
dots - Three Houses
Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose - The Beastiary
Derek McLane - Here There Are Blueberries
Jan Pappelbaum - Our Class
Matt Saunders - Jordans

Outstanding Costume Design
Oana Botez - Orlando
Qween Jean - Liberation
Marco Marco - Drag: The Musical
Rodrigo Munoz - Sally & Tom
Mariko Ohigashi - Sumo

Outstanding Lighting Design
Stacey Derosier - Grangeville
Michael Gottlieb - Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave
Tyler Micoleau - The Antiquities
Ben Stanton - Table 17
Japhy Weideman - Ghosts

Outstanding Sound Design
Nick Kourtides - Travels
Fabian Obispo - Sumo
Matt Otto - All of Me
Matt Otto - Medea: Re-Versed
Ryan Rumery and M. Florian Staab - Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave

Outstanding Projection Design
David Bengali - Here There Are Blueberries
David Bengali - We Live in Cairo
Eric Dunlap, Igor Golyak, and Andreea Mincic - Our Class
Hana S. Kim - Sumo
Brian Pacelli - Scarlett Dreams

Leading the nominations overall, with six apiece, are Drag: The Musical, about a vendetta between two drag queens running rival nightclubs; Our Class, a historical drama about antisemitism in Poland across the twentieth century; and Three Houses, a trio of musical tales about life during COVID lockdown. Earning give nominations are the Holocaust drama Here There are Blueberries; Liberation, about a 1970s-era women's consciousness-raising group; Sumo, a drama set in the Japanese wrestling world; and The Big Gay Jamboree, a satire of musical theatre. Shows with four nominations include Medea Re-Versed, a hip-hop telling of the Greek tragedy, and the romantic comedy Table 17.

The awards will be given out on May 4 at NYU's Skirball Center. To see the full list of nominees, go to playbill.com/article/lucille-lortel.