Lucille Lortel Award Winners Announced

The winners of the Lucille Lortel Awards, which honor achievement in the Off Broadway theatre, were announced May 3.

Winning the award for outstanding play was Heroes of the Fourth Turning, by Will Arbery, a drama about the students and faculty at a conservative Roman Catholic college in Wyoming; it was produced by Playwrights Horizons. The award for outstanding musical went to Dave Malloy's Octet, an a cappella piece about the members of an addiction support group, produced by Signature Theatre.

The award for outstanding scenic design went to You-Shin Chen and Laura Jellinek, for Mrs. Murray's Menagerie, a comedy about an audience focus group for a children's television show, produced by Ars Nova. The award for costume design resulted in a tie: Toni-Leslie James for the Public Theater revival of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, and Rachel Townsend and Jessica Jahn for The Confession of Lily Dare, a spoof of pre-Code Hollywood films. The lighting design award went to Isabella Byrd for Heroes of the Fourth Turning. The sound design award went to Mikhail Fiksel for the Vineyard Theatre production of Dana H., which required the leading lady Deirdre O'Connell to lip-synch to an audio tape of the real-life character she was playing. The award for projection design went to Ruey Horng Sun for the LCT3 production of The Headlands, a mystery drama about a young San Francisco man investigating his father's disappearance many years earlier.

For the full list of winners, go to the URL listed below.