Winners of the 41st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for the 2025-26 Off-Broadway season

By
Deb Miller
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This evening (Sunday, May 3), beginning at 7 pm, the winners of the Lucille Lortel Awards for the 2025-26 Off-Broadway season were announced in an event at NYU Skirball, produced by the Off-Broadway League and the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support from TDF.

Of the 98 shows considered by the Lortel’s Awards Nominating Committee, 41 received nominations across sixteen competitive categories. Leading this year’s awards were Mexodus with four wins, followed by twelve other productions with one each. In addition to those, two previously announced special awards were also presented.

And the winners of the 41st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards are:

OUTSTANDING PLAY: Prince Faggot (Playwrights Horizons, written by Jordan Tannahill)

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL: Mexodus (Audible Theater, written by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson)

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (New World Stages, music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin)

OUTSTANDING SOLO SHOW: I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan (Atlantic Theater Company, written by Mona Pirnot, performed by David Greenspan)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR: David Mendizábal, Mexodus

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER: Edgar Godineaux and Jared Grimes, Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole

OUTSTANDING LEAD PERFORMER IN A PLAY: Aigner Mizzelle, THE MONSTERS

OUTSTANDING FEATURED PERFORMER IN A PLAY: David Turner, Mother Russia

OUTSTANDING LEAD PERFORMER IN A MUSICAL: Nygel D. Robinson, Mexodus

OUTSTANDING FEATURED PERFORMER IN A MUSICAL: Nick Rashad Burroughs, GODDESS

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE: Night Side Songs, Robin de Jesús, Brooke Ishibashi, Jonathan Raviv, Kris Saint-Louis, and Mary Testa

Jonathan Raviv, Mary Testa, Brooke Ishibashi, Robin de Jesus, and Kris Saint Louis in Night Side Songs. Photo by Marc J. Franklin.

OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN: Miriam Buether, Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN: Qween Jean, Saturday Church

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN: Cha See, The Unknown

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN: Mikhail Fiksel, Mexodus

OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN: John Narun, Bughouse.

SPECIAL AWARDS:

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Mia Katigbak

PLAYWRIGHTS SIDEWALK INDUCTEE: William Finn.

Congratulations to all the winners and honorees for the recognition of their outstanding contributions to Off-Broadway theater!

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Deb Miller
Deb Miller
Deb Miller (PhD, Art History) is the Senior Correspondent and Editor for New York City, where she grew up seeing every show on Broadway. She is an active member of the Outer Critics Circle and served for more than a decade as a Voter, Nominator, and Judge for the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre. Outside of her home base in NYC, she has written and lectured extensively on the arts and theater throughout the world (including her many years in Amsterdam, London, and Venice, and her extensive work and personal connections with Andy Warhol and his circle) and previously served as a lead writer for Stage Magazine, Phindie, and Central Voice.

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