Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play
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Comment: Clearly Draft:Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play should be a separate page from Lucille Lortel Awards. I won't speculate on the cause of the confusion. The draft cites no references. It doesn't need 107 like Academy Award for Best Actress, 89 like Citra Award for Best Leading Actress, or 73 like National Film Award for Best Actress, but could you give the reader at least 3? Worldbruce (talk) 17:51, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play | |
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Description | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play |
Location | United States |
Presented by | The Off-Broadway League[1][2] |
Currently held by | Carrie Coon for Mary Jane (2017) [3] |
Website | lortelaward |
The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play is an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor an actress for excellence in a leading role in an Off-Broadway production. The categories were split into Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical in 2014[4].
Nominees and recipients
indicates the recipients
1990s
Year | Actress | Play | Character |
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1992 | Eileen Atkins | A Room of One’s Own | Virginia Woolf |
1993 | Anna Deavere Smith | Fires in the Mirror | All |
1994 | Myra Carter | Three Tall Women | A |
1995 | Linda Lavin (Tie) | Death Defying Acts | Dorothy/Carol |
Eileen Atkins (Tie) | Vita & Virginia | Virginia Woolf | |
1996 | Uta Hagen | Mrs. Klein | Mrs. Klein |
1997 | Mary-Louise Parker | How I Learned to Drive | Li'l Bit |
1998 | Cherry Jones | Pride’s Crossing | Mabel Tidings/Bigelow |
1999 | Kathleen Chalfant | Wit | Vivian Bearing, Ph.D. |
2000s
Year | Actress | Play | Character |
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2000 | Eileen Heckart | The Waverly Gallery | |
2001 | Mary-Louise Parker | Proof | Catherine |
Eileen Atkins | The Unexpected Man | The Woman | |
Janie Dee | Comic Potential | Jacie Triplethree | |
Mary Beth Fisher | Boy Gets Girl | N/A | |
Marian Seldes | The Play About the Baby | Woman | |
2002 | Linda Emond | Homebody/Kabul | The Homebody |
Ruby Dee | Saint Lucy’s Eyes | N/A | |
Martha Plimpton | Hobson’s Choice | Maggie Hobson | |
Phylicia Rashad | Blue | Peggy Clark | |
Elaine Stritch | Elaine Stritch At Liberty | N/A | |
2003 | Tovah Feldshuh | Golda's Balcony | Golda Meir |
S. Epatha Merkerson | Fucking A | Hester Smith | |
Kate Mulgrew | Tea at Five | Katharine Hepburn | |
Pamela Payton-Wright | Fifth of July | Sally Friedman | |
Parker Posey | Fifth of July | Gwen Landis | |
2004 | Tonya Pinkins | Caroline, or Change | Caroline Thibodeaux |
Lisa Emery | Iron | Fay | |
Jayne Houdyshell | Well | Ensemble | |
Swoosie Kurtz | Frozen | Nancy | |
Zilah Mendoza | Living Out | Ana Hernandez | |
2005 | Cherry Jones | Doubt | Sister Aloysius |
Ashlie Atkinson | Fat Pig | Helen | |
Viola Davis | Intimate Apparel | Esther | |
Judy Kaye | Souvenir | Florence Foster Jenkins | |
Elizabeth Marvel | Hedda Gabler | Hedda Gabler | |
2006 | Lois Smith | The Trip to Bountiful | Carrie Watts |
Jennifer Jason Leigh | Abigail's Party | Beverly | |
S. Epatha Merkerson | Birdie Blue | Birdie | |
Julie White | The Little Dog Laughed | Diane | |
Dianne Wiest | Third | Laurie Jameson | |
2007 | Gloria Reuben | Stuff Happens | Condoleezza Rice |
Rebecca Brooksher | Dying City | Kelly | |
Jill Clayburgh | The Busy World Is Hushed | Hannah | |
Patricia Heaton | The Scene | Stella | |
Laila Robins | Sore Throats | Judy | |
2008 | Elizabeth Franz | The Piano Teacher | Mrs. K |
Lisa Gay Hamilton | Ohio State Murders | Suzanne Alexander | |
Jayne Houdyshell | The Receptionist | Beverly Wilkins | |
Alison Pill | Blackbird | Una | |
Lynn Redgrave | Grace | Grace | |
2009 | Saidah Arrika Ekulona | Ruined | Mama Nadi |
Ellen Burstyn | The Little Flower of East Orange | Therese Marie | |
Carmen M. Herlihy | crooked | Maribel | |
Kellie Overbey | The Savannah Disputation | Melissa | |
Annie Parisse | Becky Shaw | Becky |
2010s
Year | Actress | Play | Character | Ref. |
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2010 | Judith Ivey | The Glass Menagerie | Amanda Wingfield | |
Nina Arianda | Venus in Fur | Vanda | ||
Jayne Houdyshell | Coraline | Coraline | ||
Cristin Milioti | Stunning | Lily Schwecky | ||
Sherie Rene Scott | Everyday Rapture | N/A | ||
2011 | Laurie Metcalf | The Other Place | Juliana | |
Tracee Chimo | Bachelorette | Regan | ||
Edie Falco | This Wide Night | Lorraine | ||
Elizabeth Marvel | The Little Foxes | Regina Giddens | ||
Michele Pawk | A Small Fire | Emily Bridges | ||
2012 | Sanaa Lathan | By the Way, Meet Vera Stark | Vera Stark | |
Cristin Milioti | Once | Girl | ||
Carey Mulligan | Through a Glass Darkly | Karin | ||
Molly Ranson | Carrie | Carrie | ||
Mary Testa | Queen of the Mist | Annie Edson Taylor | ||
2013 | Roslyn Ruff | The Piano Lesson | Berniece | [5] |
Quincy Tyler Bernstine | Neva | Masha | ||
America Ferrera | Bethany | Crystal | ||
Vanessa Redgrave | The Revisionist | Maria | ||
Sharon Washington | Wild With Happy | Adelaide/Aunt Glo | ||
2014 | Tracee Chimo | Bad Jews | Daphna | |
Diane Davis | The Model Apartment | Debby | ||
Carolyn McCormick | The Open House | N/A | ||
Laurie Metcalf | Domesticated | Judy | ||
Andrus Nichols | Bedlam's Hamlet and Saint Joan | Actor #2/Gertrude/Ophelia/Joan/Others | ||
2015 | Tonya Pinkins | Rasheeda Speaking | Jaclyn | [6] |
Quincy Tyler Bernstine | Grand Concourse | Shelly | ||
Anna Gunn | Sex With Strangers | Olivia | ||
Jan Maxwell | The City of Conversation | Hester Ferris | ||
S. Epatha Merkerson | While I Yet Live | Maxine | ||
2016 | Phylicia Rashad | Head of Passes | Shelah | [7] |
Ito Aghayere | Familiar | Nyasha | ||
Georgia Engel | John | Mertis Katherine Graven | ||
Jayne Houdyshell | The Humans | Deirdre | ||
Chinasa Ogbuagu | Sojourners | Abasiama | ||
2017 | Jennifer Ehle | Oslo | Mona | [8] |
Johanna Day | Sweat | Tracey | ||
Jennifer Kidwell | Underground Railroad Game | N/A | ||
Kecia Lewis | Marie and Rosetta | Sister Rosetta Tharpe | ||
Maryann Plunkett | Women of a Certain Age | N/A | ||
2018 | ||||
Carrie Coon | Mary Jane | Mary Jane | ||
Quincy Tyler Bernstine | The Amateurs | Hollis | ||
MaameYaa Boafo | School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play | Paulina Sarpong | ||
Cristin Milioti | After the Blast | Anna | ||
Karen Pittman | Pipeline | Nya |
Multiple awards
- Tonya Pinkins, 2 awards for Lead Actress (1 for Featured Actress) [9]
- Eileen Atkins, 2 awards for Lead Actress
- Cherry Jones, 2 Awards for Lead Actress
- Mary-Louise Parker, 2 awards for Lead Actress
Most nominations without a win
- Jayne Houdyshell (4 nominations)
- Quincy Tyler Bernstine (3 nominations)
- Cristin Milioti (3 nominations)
- S. Epatha Merkerson (3 nominations)
See also
- Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress (Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway)
References
- ^ The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers
- ^ The Off-Broadway League
- ^ Carrie Coon, Billy Crudup, Ashley Park Win 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards
- ^ Actoing Categories Split into Musicals and Plays
- ^ "Dogfight, The Whale and The Piano Lesson Are Lortel Award Winners". Playbill. May 5, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
- ^ "'Hamilton,' Tonya Pinkins Honored at 30th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards". Backstage. May 11, 2015. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
- ^ "FUTURITY, Guards at the Taj and Robber Bridegroom Earn Top Lucille Lortel Awards". Playbill. May 1, 2016. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
- ^ "'Oslo,' 'The Band's Visit' Lead 2017 Lortel Award Recipients". American Theater. May 8, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
- ^ Previous Nominees and Recipients