Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show
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The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show is an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor excellence in performance and writing for an Off-Broadway solo theatrical production since 2004.[3]
Awarded forOutstanding Solo Show
LocationUnited States
Currently held byDavid Greenspan, I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan (2026)
| Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Solo Show |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | The Off-Broadway League[1][2] |
| Currently held by | David Greenspan, I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan (2026) |
| Website | lortelaward |
Mike Birbiglia is the performer/author with the most nominations, with four, including one win. Sarah Jones, Anna Deavere Smith and David Cale follow with two nominations each.
Winners and nominees
- Key
and bold indicates the winner.
2000s
| Year | Production | Author/Performer | Producers | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | ||||
| I Am My Own Wife | Doug Wright | Playwrights Horizons | [4][5] | |
| Sarah Jones: bridge & tunnel | Sarah Jones | Meryl Streep, The Culture Project, Robert Dragotta, Jayson Jackson, Michael Alden, Eric Falkenstein, Marcia Roberts, Jean Kennedy Smith, and Tom Wirtshafter | ||
| Women On Fire | Irene O’Garden | Cherry Lane Theatre | ||
| 2005 | ||||
| Nine Parts of Desire | Heather Raffo | Manhattan Ensemble Theater | [6][7] | |
| The Two and Only | Jay Johnson | Atlantic Theater Company, Roger Alan Gindi, Stewart F. Lane & Bonnie Conley, Dan Whitten, Herbert Goldsmith Productions, and wetrock Entertainment | ||
| 2006 | No award given. | |||
| 2007 | ||||
| No Child... | Nilaja Sun | Scott Morfee, Tom Wirtshafter and Epic Theatre Center | [8][9] | |
| ¡El Conquistador! | Thaddeus Phillips, Tatiana Mallarino, and Victor Mallarino | New York Theatre Workshop | ||
| Wrecks | Neil LaBute | The Public Theater | ||
| 2008 | ||||
| Dai (enough) | Iris Bahr | Bernie Kukoff, Jonathan Pollard, Jon Cutler in association with Highbrow Entertainment | [10][11] | |
| Beyond Glory | Stephen Lang | Roundabout Theatre Company | ||
| Liberty City | Jessica Blank and April Yvette Thompson | New York Theatre Workshop | ||
| Tings Dey Happen | Dan Hoyle and Charlie Varon | Culture Project | ||
| 2009 | ||||
| Humor Abuse | Lorenzo Pisoni and Erica Schmidt | Manhattan Theatre Club | [12][13] | |
| Sleepwalk With Me | Mike Birbiglia | Eli Gonda, Ryan Scott Warren, Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, and Nathan Lane | ||
2010s
| Year | Production | Author/Performer | Producers | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||||
| A Boy and His Soul | Colman Domingo | Vineyard Theatre | [14] | |
| Let Me Down Easy | Anna Deavere Smith | Second Stage Theatre | ||
| Nightingale | Lynn Redgrave | Manhattan Theatre Club | ||
| The Lady With All the Answers | David Rambo and Judith Ivey | Cherry Lane Theatre | ||
| Zero Hour | Jim Brochu | Kurt Peterson and Edmund Gaynes, and Peccadillo Theater Company | ||
| 2011 | ||||
| Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend | Mike Birbiglia | Ron Delsener, Mike Lavoie, Mike Berkowitz and Joe Birbiglia | [15][16] | |
| Through the Night | Daniel Beaty | Daryl Roth and Jana Robbins | ||
| 2012 | ||||
| An Iliad | Denis O’Hare, Stephen Spinella and Lisa Peterson | New York Theatre Workshop | [17][18] | |
| The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith | Angelo Parra | Penguin Rep Theatre, Edmund Gaynes, Lizanne and Don Mitchell | ||
| 2013 | ||||
| All the Rage | Martin Moran | piece by piece productions, Rising Phoenix Repertory, and The Barrow Group | [19][20] | |
| Jackie | Elfriede Jelinek and Gitta Honegger | Women's Project Theater | ||
| Title and Deed | Will Eno | Signature Theatre and Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland | ||
| 2014 | ||||
| Buyer & Cellar | Jonathan Tolins and Michael Urie | Darren Bagert, Dan Shaheen, Ted Snowdon, Daryl Roth, Martin Massman, Pat Flicker Addiss, Doug Nevin, Joan Raffe & Jhett Tolentino, Andrew Tobias, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater | [21][22] | |
| How I Learned What I Learned | August Wilson, Todd Kreidler, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Signature Theatre | ||
| Satchmo at the Waldorf | Terry Teachout and John Douglas Thompson | Long Wharf Theatre, Shakespeare and Company, Scott and Roxanne Bok, Roz and Jerry Meyer, Ronald Guttman, Shadowcatcher Entertainment, John LaMattina, Joey Parnes, S.D. Wagner, John Johnson | ||
| 2015 | ||||
| Josephine and I | Cush Jumbo | The Public Theater | [23][24] | |
| Every Brilliant Thing | Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe | Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian, Tom Wirtshafter, Patrick Daly, Kelpie Arts LLC, Scott Rudin, Marc & Lisa Biales, Terry Allen Kramer, Michael Ostin | ||
| Just Jim Dale | Jim Dale | Roundabout Theatre Company | ||
| The Lion | Benjamin Scheuer | Manhattan Theatre Club | ||
| 2016 | ||||
| Grounded | George Brant | The Public Theater | [25][26] | |
| The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey | James Lecesne | Darren Bagert, Daryl Roth, Jane Dubin, Curtis Forsythe, Michael Mayer, Diane Procter, Seaview Productions and Minerva Productions/Joshua Goodman | ||
| Forever | Dael Orlandersmith | New York Theatre Workshop | ||
| Mike Birbiglia: Thank God For Jokes | Mike Birbiglia | Mike Berkowitz, Joseph Birbiglia, Ron Delsener and Mike Lavoie | ||
| 2017 | ||||
| Notes from the Field | Anna Deavere Smith | Second Stage Theatre and American Repertory Theater | [27][28] | |
| Chris Gethard: Career Suicide | Chris Gethard | Judd Apatow, Mike Berkowitz, Brian Stern, Mike Lavoie, and Carlee Briglia | ||
| Latin History for Morons | John Leguizamo | The Public Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre | ||
| The Outer Space | Ethan Lipton | Ethan Lipton, Vito Dieterle, Eben Levy, and Ian M. Riggs | ||
| Sell/Buy/Date | Sarah Jones | Manhattan Theatre Club | ||
| 2018 | ||||
| Harry Clarke | David Cale and Billy Crudup | Vineyard Theatre and Audible | [29][30] | |
| Who's Holiday! | Matthew Lombardo and Lesli Margherita | Whoville Theatrical, Scott and Jenny Beck, Jason Shaw, Ken Fakler, Drew Desky/Dane Levens, Darren Bagert | ||
| 2019 | ||||
| FLEABAG | Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Annapurna Theatre, Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, Skye Optican, Kevin Emrick, David Luff & Patrick Myles, Barbara Broccoli, Patrick Catullo, Diana DiMenna, Daryl Roth, Eric Schnall, Jayne Baron Sherman, DryWrite, Soho Theatre | [31][32] | |
| Feeding the Dragon | Sharon Washington | Primary Stages in association with Jamie deRoy and Hartford Stage | ||
| Girls & Boys | Dennis Kelly and Carey Mulligan | Audible and The Royal Court Theatre | ||
| Mike Birbiglia's The New One | Mike Birbiglia and Jennifer Hope Stein | Joseph Birbiglia, Mike Lavoie, and Rebecca Crigler | ||
| My Life On a Diet | Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna | Julian Schlossberg, Morris S. Levy, Rodger Hess, Harold Newman, Jim Fantaci, Andrew Tobias, Ronald Glazer and Sabrina Hutt |
2020s
| Year | Production | Author/Performer | Producers | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||||
| Dana H. | Lucas Hnath and Deirdre O’Connell | Vineyard Theatre, Goodman Theatre, and Center Theatre Group | [33][34] | |
| Bella Bella | Harvey Fierstein | Manhattan Theatre Club | ||
| the way she spoke | Isaac Gómez and Kate del Castillo | Audible | ||
| We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time | David Cale | The Public Theatre and Goodman Theatre | ||
| Where We Stand | Donnetta Lavinia Grays | WP Theater and Baltimore Center Stage | ||
| 2021 | No ceremony held due to COVID-19 pandemic. | |||
| 2022 | ||||
| Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord | Kristina Wong | New York Theatre Workshop | [35][36] | |
| LITTLE GIRL BLUE | Laiona Michelle | Rashad V. Chambers, Willette & Manny Klausner, E. Clayton Cornelious/Joshua Morgan, Victoria Bondoc, McCabe Productions LLC, Live & In Color, Kate Lear, Laban King, Marc Blakeman | ||
| 2023 | No award given. | |||
| 2024 | ||||
| All The Devils Are Here – How Shakespeare Invented the Villain | Patrick Page | Mara Isaacs, Thomas M. Neff, Willette and Manny Klausner, 42nd Club, and Daryl Roth | [37][38] | |
| I Love You So Much I Could Die | Mona Pirnot | New York Theatre Workshop | ||
| Make Me Gorgeous! | Donnie and Wade McCollum | triangle productions! | ||
| Sorry For Your Loss | Michael Cruz Kayne | Audible | ||
| Triple Threat | James T. Lane | Brendan Gaul, Brett Henenberg, James T. Lane, and T32 Theatrical | ||
| 2025 | ||||
| Vanya | Andrew Scott and Simon Stephens | Wessex Grove, Gavin Kalin Productions, Kater Gordon, Roast Productions, Aleri Entertainment, Eilene Davidson Productions, Nicole Eisenberg, Grace Street Creative, Jim Kierstead, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Tilted, Tulchin Bartner Productions, Winkler & Smalberg, Executive Producers Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jillian Robbins | [39][40] | |
| 300 Paintings | Sam Kissajukian | Vineyard Theatre | ||
| A Knock on the Roof | Khawla Ibraheem | New York Theatre Workshop, piece by piece productions, and Under the Radar | ||
| 2026 | ||||
| I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan | Mona Pirnot and David Greenspan | Atlantic Theatre Company | [41] | |
| Hold Me in the Water | Ryan J. Haddad | Playwrights Horizons | ||
| Nothing Can Take You From The Hand Of God | Jen Tullock and Frank Winters | Playwrights Horizons | ||
| Other | Ari'el Stachel | LaChanze, Marc Platt, Marvin Krislov/Adam Cohen, Anna Jenefsky, Bob Stachel/Aaron Yeshayahu | ||
| The Unknown | David Cale and Sean Hayes | Seaview, ATG Productions, Pam Hurst-Della Pietra & Stephen Della Pietra, Mickey Liddell & Pete Shilaimon, Tom Tuft, Craig Balsam/Ken Levitan, Julie Boardman, Creative Partners Productions, Front Row Productions, Lloyd Tichio Productions, MarketStall, New Ventures Entertainment, Hayes Entertainment, Inc. | ||
Performers/authors with multiple nominations
Producers with multiple wins
Producers with multiple nominations
- 7 nominations
- 5 nominations
- 4 nominations
- Vineyard Theatre
- Mike Lavoie
- Audible
- 3 nominations
- Tom Wirtshafter
- Mike Berkowitz
- Darren Bagert
- 2 nominations
- Playwrights Horizons
- The Culture Project
- Cherry Lane Theatre
- Roundabout Theatre Company
- Second Stage Theatre
- Signature Theatre Company
- Goodman Theatre
- piece by piece productions
- Edmund Gaynes
- Scott Morfee
- Ron Delsener
- Andrew Tobias
- John Johnson
- Willette and Manny Klausner