Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Annual Off-Broadway theatre award
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The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical was an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor an actress for excellence in a featured role in an Off-Broadway musical production. This category was added in 2014, as the awards were split into Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, before being retired in favor of gender-neutral categories in 2021.[3][4]
| Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | The Off-Broadway League[1][2] |
| Status | Retired |
| Currently held by | Kuhoo Verma for Octet (2020) |
| Website | lortelaward |
Luba Mason and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer are the only performers nominated multiple times in this category, with two nominations each (and Kritzer winning once).
Several musical performers won or received nominations for the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress before it was split in 2014. Musical winners in the former category include:
- Anika Noni Rose - 2004 winner for Caroline, Or Change
- Mare Winningham - 2008 winner for 10 Million Miles
Nominees in the former category include:
- Randy Graff - 2001 nominee for A Class Act
- Spencer Kayden - 2002 nominee for Urinetown
- Anika Larsen - 2003 nominee for Zanna, Don't!
- Jennifer Simard - 2005 nominee for Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit
- Mary Louise Wilson - 2006 nominee for Grey Gardens
- Nancy Opel - 2010 nominee for The Toxic Avenger
- Rebecca Naomi Jones - 2013 nominee for Death Ballad
Award winners
- Key
2010s
| Year | Actress | Play | Role | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Judy Kuhn | Fun Home | Helen Bechdel | [5][6] |
| Uzo Aduba | Venice - A New Musical | Anna Monroe | ||
| Melody Butiu | Here Lies Love | Estrella / Ensemble | ||
| Brittain Ashford | Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 | Sonya Rostova | ||
| Shaina Taub | Princess Mary / Maid Servant / Opera Singer / Accordion / Glockenspiel | |||
| 2015 | Renée Elise Goldsberry | Hamilton | Angelica Schuyler | [7][8] |
| Emily Young | Into the Woods | Little Red Riding Hood / Rapunzel | ||
| Jessica Tyler Wright | Allegro | Marjorie Taylor | ||
| Lulu Picart | Disenchanted! | Hua Mulan / Pocahontas / Princess Badroulbadour | ||
| Luba Mason | Pretty Filthy | Georgina Congress | ||
| 2016 | Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer | The Robber Bridegroom | Salome | [9][10] |
| Karen Kandel | Futurity | The General | ||
| Annie McNamara | Iowa | Cheerleader / Sister Wife | ||
| Eisa Davis | Preludes | Dahl | ||
| Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer | Gigantic | Sandy | ||
| 2017 | Rachel Bay Jones | Dear Evan Hansen | Heidi Hansen | [11][12] |
| Asmeret Ghebremichael | Sweet Charity | Nickie | ||
| Karen Ziemba | Kid Victory | Eileen | ||
| Betsy Morgan | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Beggar Woman / Adolfo Pirelli | ||
| Emily Rohm | Ride the Cyclone | Jane Doe | ||
| 2018 | Tiffany Mann | Jerry Springer: The Opera | Shawntell | [13][14] |
| Vanessa Kai | KPOP | Ruby | ||
| Maryann Plunkett | The Lucky Ones | Mary | ||
| Myra Lucretia Taylor | Sherrill | |||
| Adina Verson | Emma | |||
| 2019 | Soara-Joye Ross | Carmen Jones | Frankie | [15][16] |
| Alysha Umphress | Smokey Joe's Cafe | Performer | ||
| Jackie Hoffman | Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish | Yente | ||
| Stephanie Hsu | Be More Chill | Christine | ||
| Luba Mason | Girl from the North Country | Mrs. Burke |
2020s
| Year | Actress | Play | Role | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Kuhoo Verma | Octet | Velma | [17][18] |
| Ashley Pérez Flanagan | In the Green | Marie/Hildegard's Mother/Marchioness/Hildegard | ||
| Ciara Renée | The Wrong Man | Mariana | ||
| L Morgan Lee | A Strange Loop | Thought 1 | ||
| Ariana Groover | Little Shop of Horrors | Ronnette |
Multiple nominations
- 2 nominations