Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical
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Awarded forOutstanding Featured Performer in a Musical
LocationUnited States
Currently held byParis Nix, The Big Gay Jamboree (2025)
| Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | The Off-Broadway League[1][2] |
| Currently held by | Paris Nix, The Big Gay Jamboree (2025) |
| Website | lortelaward |
The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play is an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor a performer for excellence in a leading role in an Off-Broadway play production since 2022,[3] when the acting categories were made gender-neutral.[4]
Jacob Ming-Trent is the only performer to be nominated more than once, with two nominations.
2020s
- Key
and bold indicates the winner.
| Year | Actress | Play | Character | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Bonnie Milligan | Kimberly Akimbo | Debra | [5][6] |
| Steven Boyer | Kimberly Akimbo | Buddy | ||
| Lillias White | Black No More | Performer | ||
| Will Swenson | Assassins | Charles Guiteau | ||
| Ethan Slater | The Balladeer / Lee Harvey Oswald | |||
| 2023 | A.J. Shively | A Man of No Importance | Robbie Fay | [7][8] |
| Jacob Ming-Trent | The Harder They Come | Pedro | ||
| John Riddle | Titanique | Cal | ||
| Nikki M. James | Suffs | Ida B. Wells | ||
| Darren Goldstein | The Bedwetter | Donald | ||
| Krystal Joy Brown | Merrily We Roll Along | Gussie Carnegie | ||
| Reg Rogers | Joe | |||
| 2024 | Kecia Lewis | Hell's Kitchen | Miss Liza Jane | [9][10] |
| Rodrick Covington | Rock & Roll Man | Little Richard | ||
| Thom Sesma | Dead Outlaw | Thomas Noguchi | ||
| Mel Semé | Buena Vista Social Club | Ibrahim | ||
| Steven Pasquale | Teeth | Pastor Bill O'Keefe | ||
| Jessica Molaskey | The Connector | Muriel | ||
| Shoshana Bean | Hell's Kitchen | Jersey | ||
| 2025 | Paris Nix | The Big Gay Jamboree | Clarence | [11][12] |
| Natalie Walker | The Big Gay Jamboree | Flora | ||
| Helen J. Shen | The Lonely Few | JJ | ||
| Jacob Ming-Trent | Medea: Re-Versed | Creon | ||
| Eddie Korbich | Drag: The Musical | Drunk Jerry | ||
| Jujubee | The Tigress | |||
| 2026 | Nick Rashad Burroughs | Goddess | Ahmed | [13] |
| Judy Kuhn | The Baker's Wife | Denise | ||
| Erin Morton | Heathers | Martha Dunstock | ||
| Stephanie Jae Park | Monte Cristo | Haydee/Others | ||
| Caleb Quezon | Saturday Church | Dijon | ||
| Natalie Walker | The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse | Kiki | ||
| Lynne Wintersteller | About Time | Performer |