Lucille Lortel Nominations Announced

The nominations were announced yesterday for the Lucille Lortel Awards, which honor achievement in New York's Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway scenes. The design nominees include:

Outstanding Scenic Design
John Lee Beatty, Epiphany, Lincoln Center Theater
You-Shin Chen, Wolf Play, Soho Rep
dots, You Will Get Sick, Roundabout Theatre Company
Arnulfo Maldonado, A Case for the Existence of God
Clint Ramos, The Far Country, Atlantic Theatre Company

Outstanding Costume Design
Enver Chakartash, The Trees, Playwrights Horizons
Sarah Laux, Wish You Were Here, Playwrights Horizons
Orla Long, Endgame, Irish Repertory Theatre
Qween Jean, Soft, MCC Theater
Alejo Vietti, Titaníque

Outstanding Lighting Design
Isabella Byrd, Epiphany
Jiyoun Chang, The Far Country
Tyler Micoleau, A Case for the Existence of God
Barbara Samuels, Wolf Play
Cha See, On That Day in Amsterdam, Primary Stages

Outstanding Sound Design
Mikhail Fiksel, How To Defend Yourself, New York Theatre Workshop
Daniel Kluger, Epiphany
Kate Marvin, Wolf Play
Theater Mitu, american (tele)visions, New York Theatre Workshop/Theatre MITU
Sinan Refik Zafar, Letters From Max, a ritual, Signature Theatre Company

Outstanding Projection Design
Alex Basco Koch, The Orchard, Arlekin Players/Baryshnikov Arts Center
Yee Eun Nam, Once Upon a (korean) Time, Ma-Yi Theater Company
Kameron Neal, Dark Disabled Stories, Public Theater
Theater Mitu, american (tele)visions S. Katy Tucker, Letters From Max, a ritual

Leading the nominations with six is Hansol Jung's Wolf Play, a drama about an illegal adoption. Earning five nominations apiece are Samuel D. Hunter's A Case for the Existence of God, a two-hander about loneliness in Idaho; the Irish Rep's revival of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, Brian Watkins' mystical comedy Epiphany; and Titanique, a musical spoof of the famous film, using numbers from the Celine Dion songbook. Earning four nominations apiece are Downstate, Bruce Norris' scalding drama about a group home for sex offenders; the Broadway-bound revival of the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along, and Victor I. Cazares, fantastical comedy-drama about immigration american (tele)visions.

For the full list of nominees, go to: lortelaward.com/2023-nominees/.