Winners of the 41st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards, recognizing the best of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway Theatre, were revealed May 3 in an Alex Moffat-hosted ceremony at NYU Skirball. Audible Theater’s\u00a0Mexodus emerged as the most successful production of the evening, winning four categories, including the evening’s top honor:\u00a0Outstanding Musical. The show also won for its direction (by David Mendiz\u00e1bal), sound design (by Mikhail Fiksel), and for writer-star Nygel D. Robinson’s leading performance. The musical had gone into tonight’s ceremony as the season’s most nominated show, competing in nine categories.<\/p>\n
But awards were otherwise shared between multiple productions, with\u00a0Mexodus being the only title to take more than one category. Outstanding Play went to Jordan Tannahill’s\u00a0Prince Faggot, while\u00a0The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee won the Revival category. The evening’s other acting awards went to Aigner Mizzelle for her leading performance in\u00a0The Monsters, Nick Rashad Burroughs for his featured performance in\u00a0Goddess, and David Turner for his featured performance in\u00a0Mother Russia.<\/p>\n
Presenters for the evening included Patrick Ball (Becky Shaw), Maya Boyd (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone), Susannah Flood (Liberation), Stephanie Hsu (The Rocky Horror Show), Aasif Mandvi (Fallen Angels), Lea Michele (Chess), Francis Jue (Yellow Face), David Stone (Kimberly Akimbo), and James Lapine (Sunday in the Park With George).<\/p>\n
The evening also saw several special, non-competitive awards bestowed, including\u00a0a Lifetime Achievement Award for National Asian American Theatre Company founder\u00a0Mia Katigbak, and late composer and lyricist William Finn, who was posthumously inducted onto the famed Playwrights\u2019 Sidewalk in front of the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village. A tribute to the latter featured performances from noted Finn interpreters Carolee Carmello, Lilli Cooper, Mary Testa, and Chip Zien. The evening also featured an In Memoriam segment that included Isa Briones (Just In Time) singing Bobby Darin’s “The Curtain Falls.”<\/p>\n
READ: Mexodus Has Been Called ‘The Next Hamilton.’ Its Creators Don’t Mind the Comparison<\/a><\/p>\n See the full list of winners below:<\/p>\n Outstanding Play READ: Prince Faggot May Look Like It\u2019s About the Royal Family, But It\u2019s Actually About Queer Joy<\/a><\/p>\n Outstanding Musical VIDEO: Grey Henson Performs ‘Day to Day’ From<\/a> Bigfoot!<\/a><\/p>\n Outstanding Revival Video: Gruesome Playground Injuries Leads Nicholas Braun and Kara Young Discuss Their Most Memorable Work Injuries<\/a><\/p>\n Outstanding Solo Show READ: Sean Hayes Did Not Want to Do a Solo Show; Then Leigh Silverman Sent Him The Unknown<\/a><\/p>\n Outstanding Director Outstanding Choreographer READ: Saturday Church Is Preaching a Message of Love and Allyship<\/a><\/p>\n Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play READ: Ro Reddick Doesn’t Mind If You Laugh During Cold War Choir Practice<\/a><\/p>\n Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical READ: After 83 Years and 2 Abandoned Attempts, Thornton Wilder\u2019s The Skin of Our Teeth Is Finally a Musical<\/a><\/p>\n Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical READ: The Cast of The Baker’s Wife Is Rediscovering Stephen Schwartz’s Musical<\/a><\/p>\n Outstanding Ensemble
Cold War Choir Practice, Ro Reddick
Kyoto, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson
THE MONSTERS, Ngozi Anyanwu
Mother Russia, Lauren Yee
WINNER –\u00a0Prince Faggot, Jordan Tannahill<\/p>\n
BIGFOOT!
WINNER –\u00a0Mexodus
My Joy Is Heavy
Night Side Songs
Saturday Church<\/p>\n
WINNER –\u00a0The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Bus Stop
Gruesome Playground Injuries
Titus Andronicus
The Weir<\/p>\n
Hold Me in the Water, written and performed by Ryan J. Haddad
WINNER –\u00a0I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan, by Mona Pirnot and performed by David Greenspan
Nothing Can Take You From The Hand Of God, written by Jen Tullock and Frank Winters, performed by Jen Tullock
Other, written and performed by Ari’el Stachel
The Unknown, by David Cale and performed by Sean Hayes <\/p>\n
Knud Adams, Cold War Choir Practice
Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Prince Faggot
Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin, Kyoto
WINNER –\u00a0David Mendiz\u00e1bal, Mexodus
Keenan Tyler Oliphant, Practice <\/p>\n
WINNER –\u00a0Edgar Godineaux and Jared Grimes, Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole
Darrell Grand Moultrie, Goddess\u00a0
Darrell Grand Moultrie, Saturday Church
Tony Thomas, Mexodus
Rickey Tripp, THE MONSTERS <\/p>\n
Noah Galvin, The Reservoir
Marin Ireland, Queens
John Krasinski, Angry Alan
WINNER –\u00a0Aigner Mizzelle, The Monsters\u00a0
Okieriete Onaodowan, The Monsters\u00a0
Susannah Perkins, Antigone (This Play I Read In High School)
Kara Young, Gruesome Playground Injuries <\/p>\n
Jorge Bosch, Kyoto
Felicia Curry, Bowl EP
Crystal Finn, Cold War Choir Practice
David Greenspan, Prince Faggot
Lizan Mitchell, Cold War Choir Practice
Deirdre O’Connell, Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.
WINNER –\u00a0David Turner, Mother Russia <\/p>\n
Abigail Bengson, My Joy Is Heavy
J. Harrison Ghee, Saturday Church
Dul\u00e9 Hill, Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole
Ruthie Ann Miles, The Seat of Our Pants
Brian Quijada, Mexodus
WINNER –\u00a0Nygel D. Robinson, Mexodus
Daniel J. Watts, Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole <\/p>\n
WINNER –\u00a0Nick Rashad Burroughs, Goddess\u00a0
Judy Kuhn, The Baker’s Wife
Erin Morton, Heathers The Musical
Stephanie Jae Park, Monte Cristo
Caleb Quezon, Saturday Church
Natalie Walker, The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse
Lynne Wintersteller, About Time <\/p>\n
Initiative,\u00a0Olivia Rose Barresi, Brandon Burk, Greg Cuellar, Harrison Densmore, Carson Higgins, Andrea Lopez Alvarez, Jamie Sanders, Christopher Dylan White
WINNER –\u00a0Night Side Songs,\u00a0Robin de Jes\u00fas, Brooke Ishibashi, Jonathan Raviv, Kris Saint-Louis, Mary Testa
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,\u00a0Philippe Arroyo, Autumn Best, Leana Rae Concepcion, Justin Cooley, Lilli Cooper, Jason Kravits, Matt Manuel, Kevin McHale, Jasmine Amy Rogers <\/p>\n