2024 Lucille Lortel Award winners announced

Two shows now running on Broadway, Hell's Kitchen and Stereophonic, took home awards for their world-premiere Off-Broadway runs earlier this season.

Winners have been announced for the 2024 Lucille Lortel Awards, which honor the best of Off-Broadway theatre each year.

Two shows that began off Broadway earlier this season and are now running on Broadway — Alicia Keys's musical Hell's Kitchen and David Adjmi's '70s rock-inspired play Stereophonic — took home awards. Additionally, Justin Peck, who directed and choreographed the current Broadway show Illinoise, won a Lortel for choreographing a different musical, Buena Vista Social Club, with Patricia Delgado.

The musical (pray) won the most awards with three. In addition to the competitive awards, three honorary prizes were given: the Lifetime Achievement Award for performer/writer/director Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the Playwrights’ Sidewalk Inductee award for Dominique Morisseau, and the award for Outstanding Body of Work for the Off-Broadway theatre company Ars Nova.

Discover the full list of nominees and winners below. Winners are bolded and denoted with an asterisk.

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Outstanding Play

• The Comeuppance*
• Plays For The Plague Year
• Primary Trust
• Stereophonic
• Wet Brain

Outstanding Musical

• (pray)*
• Buena Vista Social Club
• Dead Outlaw
• Hell's Kitchen
• Teeth

Outstanding Revival

• Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
• I Can Get It for You Wholesale
• Philadelphia, Here I Come!
• Sunset Baby
• Translations*

Outstanding Solo Show

• All The Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain*
• I Love You So Much I Could Die
• Make Me Gorgeous!
• Sorry For Your Loss
• Triple Threat

Outstanding Director

• Daniel Aukin: Stereophonic
• David Cromer: Dead Outlaw
• nicHi douglas: (pray)*
• Eric Ting: The Comeuppance
• Dustin Wills: Wet Brain

Outstanding Choreographer

• Camille A. Brown: Hell's Kitchen
• Graciela Daniele and Alex Sanchez: The Gardens of Anuncia
• Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck: Buena Vista Social Club*
• nicHi douglas: (pray)
• Raja Feather Kelly: Teeth

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play

• Christopher Abbott: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
• Gabby Beans: Jonah*
• William Jackson Harper: Primary Trust
• Nicole Ari Parker: The Refuge Plays
• Josh Radnor: The Ally
• A.J. Shively: Philadelphia, Here I Come!
• Paco Tolson: The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play

• Arnie Burton: Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors
• Eli Gelb: Stereophonic*
• Carmen M. Herlihy: The Apiary
• Florencia Lozano: Wet Brain
• Julio Monge: Wet Brain
• Bubba Weiler: Swing State
• Frank Wood: Toros

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical

• Natalie Venetia Belcon: Buena Vista Social Club*
• Jeb Brown: Dead Outlaw
• Andrew Durand: Dead Outlaw
• Santino Fontana: I Can Get It for You Wholesale
• Priscilla Lopez: The Gardens of Anuncia
• Alyse Alan Louis: Teeth
• Maleah Joi Moon: Hell’s Kitchen

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical

• Shoshana Bean: Hell's Kitchen
• Rodrick Covington: Rock & Roll Man
• Kecia Lewis: Hell’s Kitchen*
• Jessica Molaskey: The Connector
• Steven Pasquale: Teeth
• Mel Semé: Buena Vista Social Club
• Thom Sesma: Dead Outlaw

Outstanding Ensemble

• (pray): Ariel Kayla Blackwood, S T A R R Busby, Ashely De La Rosa, Tina Fabrique, Satori Folkes-Stone, Amara Granderson, Taylor Symone Jackson, Ziiomi Louise Law, Aigner Mizzelle, Gayle Turner, Darnell White, D. Woods*
• The Comeuppance: Brittany Bradford, Caleb Eberhardt, Susannah Flood, Bobby Moreno, Shannon Tyo
• Flex: Brittany Bellizeare, Christiana Clark, Eboni Edwards, Renita Lewis, Erica Matthews, Ciara Monique, Tamera Tomakili

Outstanding Scenic Design

• Jason Ardizzone-West: shadow/land
• Arnulfo Maldonado: Buena Vista Social Club
• Arnulfo Maldonado: Dead Outlaw
• Kate Noll: Wet Brain*
• David Zinn: Stereophonic

Outstanding Costume Design

• Dede Ayite: Buena Vista Social Club
• Enver Chakartash: Stereophonic
• Linda Cho: The Half-God of Rainfall
• DeShon Elem: (pray)
• Lux Haac: Manahatta*

Outstanding Lighting Design

• Amith Chandrashaker: The Comeuppance*
• Jiyoun Chang: Stereophonic
• Jen Schriever: Spain
• Cha See: Wet Brain
• John Torres: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

Outstanding Sound Design

• Tei Blow & John Gasper: Wet Brain
• Jonathan Deans: Buena Vista Social Club
• Palmer Hefferan: The Comeuppance
• Ryan Rumery: Stereophonic*
• Mikaal Sulaiman: (pray)

Outstanding Projection Design

• 59 Productions: Corruption
• Nick Hussong: Wet Brain*
• Jared Mezzocchi: Poor Yella Rednecks
• Jared Mezzocchi: Russian Troll Farm
• Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew: The Connector

Photo credit: The cast of Stereophonic on Broadway. (Photo by Julieta Cervantes)