Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
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| Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | The Off-Broadway League[1][2] |
| Status | Retired |
| Currently held by | Michele Pawk for Heroes of the Fourth Turning (2020) |
| Website | lortelaward |
The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play was an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor an actress for excellence in a featured role in an Off-Broadway production since 2001. The categories were split into Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical in 2014.[3] The acting categories were made gender-neutral in 2021.[4]
No performer won the award more than twice; however, Liza Colón-Zayas received the most nominations, with three. Several musical performers won or were nominated in this category before it was split into musical/play in 2014. Winners include Anika Noni Rose in 2004 for Caroline, Or Change and Mare Winningham in 2008 for 10 Million Miles. Musical nominees in the 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