Lucille Lortel Award Winners Announced

The winners of the Lucille Lortel Awards, which honor achievement Off Broadway, were announced on May 5. In the design categories, Arnulfo Maldonado was cited for the scenery of Sugar in Our Wounds, produced by Manhattan Theatre Club. Lap chi Chu won for the lighting design of Mlima's Tale produced by the Public Theater. Dan Moses Schreier took the nod for the revival of Carmen Jones, produced by Classic Stage Company (Carmen Jones was the big winner, taking four awards overall.) The costume design category featured a tie: Montana Levi Blanco for The House That Will Not Stand produced by New York Theatre Workshop, and Paloma Young for Alice by Heart, produced by MCC Theater.

The other winners included:

Outstanding Play
Pass Over, by Antoinette Nwandu, LCT3

Outstanding Musical
Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future, Book, music, and lyrics by Andrew R. Butler, Ars Nova

Outstanding Revival
Carmen Jones

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play
Juan Castano, Transfers, MCC Theater

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play
Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Marys Seacole, LCT3

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Gabriel Ebert, Pass Over

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Crystal Lucas-Perry, Ain't No Mo', Public Theater

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical
Steven Skybell, Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, National Yiddish Theatre Folkesbiene

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical
Anika Noni Rose, Carmen Jones

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
George Salazar, Be More Chill

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Soara-Joye Ross, Carmen Jones

Outstanding Solo Show
Fleabag

Outstanding Director
Lee Sunday Evans, Dance Nation, Playwrights Horizons

Outstanding Choreographer
Rick and Jeff Kuperman, Alice by Heart

Special Award
Outstanding Alternative Theatrical Experience
On Beckett, Irish Repertory Theatre

Honoraray Awards
Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee (in front of the Lucille Lortel Theatre)
María Irene Fornés

Outstanding Body of Work
Telsey + Company (the casting agency)

Edith Oliver Service to Off-Broadway Award
Terry Byrne (president of the Off Broadway League)