The annual awards celebrate the best of Off-Broadway theatre, and the currently running musical Mexodus leads with nine nominations this year.<\/p>\n
Nominees have been announced for the 2026 Lucille Lortel Awards, which honor the best of Off-Broadway theatre each year.<\/p>\n
The currently running musical Mexodus<\/a>, created and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson at the Daryl Roth Theatre through June 14, leads the pack with nine nominations each, including Outstanding Musical. Jordan Tannahill’s play Prince Faggot, which ran at Playwrights Horizons and then at Studio Seaview in 2025, followed with six nods.<\/p>\n Other currently running shows nominated for Lortels include Cold War Choir Practice<\/a>, The Unknown<\/a>, Bigfoot!<\/a>, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee<\/a>, Titus Andronicus<\/a>, Antigone (This Play I Read In High School)<\/a>, About Time<\/a>, Heathers<\/a>, and My Joy Is Heavy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Additionally, the Lortels named recipients of two honorary prizes: the Lifetime Achievement Award for actor Mia Katigbak and a Playwrights\u2019 Sidewalk induction for the late composer\/lyricist William Finn.<\/p>\n Discover the full list of nominees below.<\/p>\n Outstanding Play<\/p>\n Cold War Choir Practice Outstanding Musical<\/p>\n Bigfoot! Outstanding Revival<\/p>\n The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Outstanding Solo Show<\/p>\n Hold Me in the Water Outstanding Director<\/p>\n Knud Adams: Cold War Choir Practice Outstanding Choreographer<\/p>\n Edgar Godineaux and Jared Grimes: Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play<\/p>\n Noah Galvin: The Reservoir Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play<\/p>\n Jorge Bosch: Kyoto Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical<\/p>\n Abigail Bengson: My Joy Is Heavy Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical<\/p>\n Nick Rashad Burroughs: Goddess Outstanding Ensemble<\/p>\n Initiative: Olivia Rose Barresi, Brandon Burk, Greg Cuellar, Harrison Densmore, Carson Higgins, Andrea Lopez Alvarez, Jamie Sanders, Christopher Dylan White Outstanding Scenic Design<\/p>\n Miriam Buether: Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. Outstanding Costume Design<\/p>\n Montana Levi Blanco: Prince Faggot Outstanding Lighting Design<\/p>\n Isabella Byrd: Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. Outstanding Sound Design<\/p>\n Caroline Eng: The Unknown Outstanding Projection Design<\/p>\n David Bengali: My Joy Is Heavy Photo credit: Mexodus off Broadway. (Photo by Thomas Mundell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual awards celebrate the best of Off-Broadway theatre, and the currently running musical Mexodus leads with nine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-182472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKyoto
\nThe Monsters
\nMother Russia
\nPrince Faggot<\/p>\n
\nMexodus
\nMy Joy Is Heavy
\nNight Side Songs
\nSaturday Church<\/p>\n
\nBus Stop
\nGruesome Playground Injuries
\nTitus Andronicus
\nThe Weir<\/p>\n
\nI’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan
\nNothing Can Take You From The Hand Of God
\nOther
\nThe Unknown<\/p>\n
\nShayok Misha Chowdhury: Prince Faggot
\nStephen Daldry and Justin Martin: Kyoto
\nDavid Mendiz\u00e1bal: Mexodus
\nKeenan Tyler Oliphant: Practice<\/p>\n
\nDarrell Grand Moultrie: Goddess
\nDarrell Grand Moultrie: Saturday Church
\nTony Thomas: Mexodus
\nRickey Tripp: The Monsters<\/p>\n
\nMarin Ireland: Queens
\nJohn Krasinski: Angry Alan
\nAigner Mizzelle: The Monsters
\nOkieriete Onaodowan: The Monsters
\nSusannah Perkins: Antigone (This Play I Read In High School)
\nKara Young: Gruesome Playground Injuries<\/p>\n
\nFelicia Curry: Bowl EP
\nCrystal Finn: Cold War Choir Practice
\nDavid Greenspan: Prince Faggot
\nLizan Mitchell: Cold War Choir Practice
\nDeirdre O’Connell: Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.
\nDavid Turner: Mother Russia<\/p>\n
\nJ. Harrison Ghee: Saturday Church
\nDul\u00e9 Hill: Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole
\nRuthie Ann Miles: The Seat of Our Pants
\nBrian Quijada: Mexodus
\nNygel D. Robinson: Mexodus
\nDaniel J. Watts: Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole<\/p>\n
\nJudy Kuhn: The Baker’s Wife
\nErin Morton: Heathers The Musical
\nStephanie Jae Park: Monte Cristo
\nCaleb Quezon: Saturday Church
\nNatalie Walker: The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse
\nLynne Wintersteller: About Time<\/p>\n
\nNight Side Songs: Robin de Jes\u00fas, Brooke Ishibashi, Jonathan Raviv, Kris Saint-Louis, Mary Testa
\nThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: Philippe Arroyo, Autumn Best, Leana Rae Concepcion, Justin Cooley, Lilli Cooper, Jason Kravits, Matt Manuel, Kevin McHale, Jasmine Amy Rogers<\/p>\n
\nAfsoon Pajoufar: Cold War Choir Practice
\nRiw Rakkulchon: Mexodus
\nAdam Rigg and Anton Volovsek: Bowl EP
\nDavid Zinn: Prince Faggot<\/p>\n
\nEnver Chakartash: Tartuffe
\nQween Jean: Saturday Church
\nCeleste Jennings: minor.ity
\nKaye Voyce: The Seat of Our Pants<\/p>\n
\nIsabella Byrd: Prince Faggot
\nMextly Couzin: Mexodus
\nCha See: The Unknown
\nStudio Luna: Marcel on the Train<\/p>\n
\nMikhail Fiksel: Mexodus
\nRyan Gamblin: Bowl EP
\nDrew Levy: The Weir
\nBray Poor: Eurydice<\/p>\n
\nStefania Bulbarella: Nothing Can Take You From The Hand Of God
\nAkhila Krishnan: Kyoto
\nJohnny Moreno: Mexodus
\nJohn Narun: Bughouse<\/p>\n