The Lucille Lortel 2012 Award winners

The winners of the 27th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards were announced at the NYU Skirball Center on 6 May 2012, at a ceremony hosted by Mario Cantone.

The musical Once, featuring music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, book by Enda Walsh, and direction by John Tiffany was named Outstanding musical.

Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, directed by Peter DuBois and produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company was named Outstanding play.

The evenings biggest disappointment was the comic-drama Tribes, which although it was nominated in six categories, walked away empty handed.

Four special awards where presented at the ceremony:

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard Frankel
  
• Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee: Richard Foreman
  
• Service to Off-Broadway: Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY)
  
• Outstanding Alternative Theatrical Experience: Voca People

Outstanding Play:

• Blood and Gifts
  written by J. T. Rogers
  Produced by Lincoln Center Theater
• Milk Like Sugar
  Written by Kirsten Greenidge
  Produced by Playwrights Horizons and Women's Project Theater
• Sons of the Prophet
  Written by Stephen Karam
  Produced by Playwrights Horizons.
• The Big Meal
  Written by Dan LeFranc
  Produced by Playwrights Horizons
• The School For Lies
  Written by David Ives
  Produced by Classic Stage Company

Outstanding Musical:

• Once
  Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, Book by Enda Walsh
  Produced by TNew York Theatre Workshop
• Queen of the Mist
  Words and Music by Michael John LaChiusa
  Produced by Transport Group
• SILENCE! The Musical
  Music and Lyrics by Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan, Book by Hunter Bell, Adapted from the screenplay Silence! The Musical by Jon and Al Kaplan
  Produced by Victoria Lang, Rich Affannato, Donna Trinkoff in association with Scott Kirschenbaum, Theater Mogul, Kitefliers Studio and Terry Schnuck
• The Blue Flower
  By Jim Bauer and Ruth Bauer
  Produced Second Stage Theatre
• The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World
  Book by Joy Gregory, Music by Gunnar Madsen, Lyrics by Joy Gregory and Gunnar Madsen, Story by Joy Gregory, Gunnar Madsen, and John Langs
  Produced by Playwrights Horizons and New York Theatre Workshop

Outstanding Revival:

• Blood Knot
  Written by Athol Fugard
  Produced by Signature Theatre Company
• The Lady from Dubuque
  Written by Edward Albee
  Produced by Signature Theatre
• Look Back in Anger
  Written by John Osborne
  Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company
• The Cherry Orchard
  Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by John Christopher Jones
  Produced by Classic Stage Company
• The Maids
  Written by Jean Genet, Translated by Bernard Frechtman
  Produced by Red Bull Theater

Outstanding Solo Show:

• An Iliad
  Written by Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson. Performed by Denis O'Hare and Stephen Spinella. Based on Homer's The Iliad translated by Robert Fagles
  Produced by New York Theatre Workshop
• The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith
  Written by Angelo Parra. Performed by Miche Braden
  Produced by Penguin Rep Theatre and Edmund Gaynes in association with Lizanne and Don Mitchell

Outstanding Director:

• Jo Bonney: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
• David Cromer: Tribes
• Sam Gold: Look Back in Anger
• Sam Gold: The Big Meal
• John Tiffany: Once

Outstanding Choreographer:

• Chase Brock: The Blue Flower
• Bill Castellino: Ionescopade
• Christopher Gattelli: SILENCE! The Musical
• Steven Hoggett: Once
• Annie-B Parson: The Broken Heart

Outstanding Lead Actor:

• Santino Fontana: Sons of the Prophet
• Russell Harvard: Tribes
• Hamish Linklater: The School For Lies
• Jefferson Mays: Blood and Gifts
• Jay O. Sanders: Titus Andronicus

Outstanding Lead Actress:

• Sanaa Lathan: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
• Cristin Milioti: Once
• Carey Mulligan: Through a Glass Darkly
• Molly Ranson: Carrie
• Mary Testa: Queen of the Mist

Outstanding Featured Actor:

• David Wilson Barnes: The Big Meal
• Adam Driver: Look Back in Anger
• Alvin Epstein: The Cherry Orchard
• Peter Francis James: The Lady from Dubuque
• Jeff Perry: Tribes

Outstanding Featured Actress:

• Anita Gillette: The Big Meal
• Kimberly Hébert Gregory: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
• Marin Mazzie: Carrie
• Tonya Pinkins: Milk Like Sugar
• Mare Winningham: Tribes

Outstanding Scenic Design:

• Bob Crowley: Once
• Lauren Helpern: 4000 Miles
• Andrew Lieberman: Look Back in Anger
• Adrianne Lobel: Galileo
• David Zinn: The Select (The Sun Also Rises)

Outstanding Costume Design:

• Esosa: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
• Toni-Leslie James: Milk Like Sugar
• William Ivey Long: The School For Lies
• Ilona Somogyi: Maple and Vine
• Catherine Zuber: Death Takes a Holiday

Outstanding Lighting Design:

• Natasha Katz: Once (Tie)
• Keith Parham: Tribes
• Justin Townsend: Unnatural Acts
• David Weiner: Through a Glass Darkly (Tie)
• Scott Zielinski: An Iliad

Outstanding Sound Design:

• Mark Bennett: An Iliad
• Clive Goodwin: Once
• Daniel Kluger: Tribes
• Matt Tierney and Ben Williams: The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
• David Van Tieghem: Through a Glass Darkly

Awards won by show:

The 2012 Lucille Lortel Awards voting committee is appointed by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, Actors' Equity Association, and the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers, and includes journalists, educators and members of the Off-Broadway community.

Awarded since 1986, the Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the League by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation.