Wolf Play, Titanique Lead 2023 Lortel Award Nominations

Nominations for the 2023 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring the best off-Broadway theater of the season, have been announced. Winners will be announced during a ceremony on Sunday, May 7.

Check out the complete list below:

Outstanding Play
A Case for the Existence of God
Dark Disabled Stories
Downstate
Epiphany
Wolf Play

Outstanding Musical
Dreaming Zenzile
Harmony
Suffs
Titanique
Weightless

Outstanding Revival
A Bright New Boise
Endgame
A Man of No Importance
Merrily We Roll Along
A Raisin in the Sun

Outstanding Director
Zi Alikhan – On That Day in Amsterdam
David Cromer – A Case for the Existence of God
Robert O’Hara – A Raisin in the Sun
Whitney White – soft
Dustin Wills – Wolf Play

 Outstanding Choreographer
Andy Blankenbuehler – Only Gold
Warren Carlyle – Harmony
Edgar Godineaux – The Harder They Come
Jerry Mitchell – Kinky Boots
Ellenore Scott – Titaníque

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play
Kyle Beltran – A Case For the Existence of God
Marylouise Burke – Epiphany
Todd Freeman – Downstate
Ryan J. Haddad – Dark Disabled Stories
Bill Irwin – Endgame
Tonya Pinkins – A Raisin in the Sun
John Douglas Thompson – Endgame

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play
Mia Barron – The Coast Starlight
Susanna Guzman – Downstate
Ryan J. Haddad – american (tele)visions
Dickie Hearts – Dark Disabled Stories
Patrice Johnson Chevannes – Endgame
Maureen Sebastian – The Best We Could (a family tragedy)
Eddie Torres – Downstate

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical
Nicholas Barasch – The Butcher Boy
Callum Francis – Kinky Boots
Natey Jones – The Harder They Come
Somi Kakoma – Dreaming Zenzile
Lindsay Mendez – Merrily We Roll Along
Marla Mindelle – Titaníque
Jim Parsons – A Man of No Importance

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical
Krystal Joy Brown – Merrily We Roll Along
Darren Goldstein – The Bedwetter
Nikki M. James – Suffs
Jacob Ming-Trent – The Harder They Come
John Riddle – Titaníque
Reg Rogers – Merrily We Roll Along
A.J. Shively – A Man of No Importance

Outstanding Ensemble
The Nosebleed
Drae Campbell, Ashil Lee, Chris Manley, Aya Ogawa, Saori Tsukada, Kaili Y. Turner

soft
Leon Addison Brown, Biko Eisen-Martin, Dharon Jones, Essence Lotus, Travis Raeburn, Shakur Tolliver, Dario Vazquez, Ed Ventura

Wolf Play
Christopher Bannow, Esco Jouléy, Brian Quijada, Nicole Villamil, Mitchell Winter

Outstanding Scenic Design
John Lee Beatty – Epiphany
You-Shin Chen – Wolf Play
dots – You Will Get Sick
Arnulfo Maldonado – A Case for the Existence of God
Clint Ramos – The Far Country

Outstanding Costume Design
Enver Chakartash – The Trees
Sarah Laux – Wish You Were Here
Orla Long – Endgame
Qween Jean – Soft
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

Outstanding Sound Design
Mikhail Fiksel – How To Defend Yourself
Daniel Kluger – Epiphany
Kate Marvin – Wolf Play
Theater Mitu – american (tele)visions
Sinan Refik Zafar – Letters from Max, a ritual

Outstanding Projection Design
Alex Basco Koch – The Orchard
Yee Eun Nam – Once Upon a (Korean) Time
Kameron Neal – Dark Disabled Stories
Theater Mitu – american (tele)visions
S Katy Tucker – Letters from Max, a ritual

Lifetime Achievement Award
Stephen McKinley Henderson

Playwrights’ Sidewalk Inductee
Ntozake Shange

Body of Work
A.R.T./New York