Drag, Houses, and Our Class Lead Lortel Award Noms

Jujubee, Jan Sport, Alaska Thunderf*ck, and
Nick Laughlin in Drag: The Musical.
Credit: Matthew Murphy

Let theater awards season begin with the Lortel nominations, the first prize-dispensing of the season. Drag: The Musical, Three Houses and Our Class received the most Lortel Award nominations for Off-Broadway with a total of six each. The nominations were read by Francis Jue (Yellow Face) and Krysta Rodriguez (Smash) on April 2. The awards will be presented on May 4 at NYU Skirball. The event is open to the public and tickets may be purchased at Tickets.nyu.edu and at the NYU Skirball box office. The awards are named for legendary producer Lucille Lortel. They are presented by the Off-Broadway League and the Lortel Theater with support from TDF. The nominations are determined and the winners voted on by a committee of representatives of unions, the Off-Broadway League, theater journalists, academics and other Off-Broadway professionals. 70 productions from the 2024-25 season were considered eligible. A complete list of the nominees follows:

Outstanding Play
Here There Are Blueberries
Liberation
Sumo
The Antiquities
We Had a World

Outstanding Musical
Drag: The Musical
Medea: Re-Versed
The Big Gay Jamboree
Three Houses
We Live in Cairo

Outstanding Revival
Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave
Ghosts
Hold on to Me Darling
Our Class
Wine in the Wilderness

Outstanding Solo Show
300 Paintings
A Knock on the Roof
Vanya

Outstanding Director
Igor Golyak – Our Class
Moisés Kaufman – Here There Are Blueberries
Zhailon Levingston – Table 17
Whitney White – Liberation
Sam Yates – Vanya

Outstanding Choreographer
Connor Gallagher – The Big Gay Jamboree
Spencer Liff – Drag: The Musical
Or Schraiber – Our Class
Lynne Taylor-Corbett – Distant Thunder
Annie Tippe – Three Houses

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play
Adam Driver – Hold on to Me Darling
Madison Ferris – All of Me
Susannah Flood – Liberation
Lily Rabe – Ghosts
Paul Sparks – Grangeville
Marisa Tomei – Babe
Kara Young – Table 17

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play
Betsy Aidem – Liberation
Stephanie Berry – Staff Meal
Ahmad Kamal – Sumo
Julia Lester – All Nighter
Michael Rishawn – Table 17
Olivia Washington – Wine in the Wilderness
Frank Wood – Hold on to Me Darling

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical
Marla Mindelle – The Big Gay Jamboree
J.D. Mollison – Three Houses
Mia Pak – Three Houses
Lauren Patten – The Lonely Few
Margo Seibert – Three Houses
Alaska Thunderfuck – Drag: The Musical
Sarin Monae West – Medea: Re-Versed

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical
Jujubee – Drag: The Musical
Eddie Korbich – Drag: The Musical
Jacob Ming-Trent – Medea: Re-Versed
Paris Nix – The Big Gay Jamboree
Helen J Shen – The Lonely Few
Natalie Walker – The Big Gay Jamboree

Outstanding Ensemble
Here There Are Blueberries: Scott Barrow, Nemuna Ceesay, Kathleen Chalfant, Jonathan Raviv, Erika Rose, Elizabeth Stahlmann, Charlie Thurston, Grant James Varjas

Our Class: Gus Birney, Andrey Burkovskiy, José Espinosa, Tess Goldwyn, Will Manning, Stephen Ochsner, Alexandra Silber, Richard Topol, Ilia Volok, Elan Zafir

We Live in Cairo: Ali Louis Bourzgui, Drew Elhamalawy, John El-Jor, Nadina Hassan, Michael Khalid Karadsheh, Rotana Tarabzouni

Outstanding Scenic Design
Dots– Three Houses
Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose – The Beastiary
Derek McLane – Here There Are Blueberries
Jan Pappelbaum – Our Class
Matt Saunders – Jordans

Outstanding Costume Design
Oana Botez – Orlando
Qween Jean – Liberation
Marco Marco – Drag: The Musical
Rodrigo Muñoz – Sally & Tom
Mariko Ohigashi – Sumo

Outstanding Lighting Design
Stacey Derosier – Grangeville
Michael Gottlieb – Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave
Tyler Micoleau – The Antiquities
Ben Stanton – Table 17
Japhy Weideman – Ghosts

Outstanding Sound Design
Nick Kourtides – Travels
Fabian Obispo – Sumo
Matt Otto – All of Me
Matt Otto – Medea: Re-Versed
Ryan Rumery and M. Florian Staab – Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave

Outstanding Projection Design
David Bengali – Here There Are Blueberries
David Bengali – We Live in Cairo
Eric Dunlap, Igor Golyak, and Andreea Mincic – Our Class
Hana S. Kim – Sumo
Brian Pacelli – Scarlett Dreams

HONORARY AWARDS
Playwrights’ Sidewalk Inductee
Alice Childress

Outstanding Body of Work
New Federal Theatre

Edith Oliver Service to Off-Broadway
Carol Fishman