Photo Coverage: Off Broadway Unites on the Lucille Lortel Awards Red Carpet!
By: Jessica Fallon Gordon May. 02, 2016
The 2016 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were handed out last night to recipients in 18 categories, with two special awards and two honorary awards also bestowed. The Lortel Awards were distributed in a ceremony at NYU Skirball Center hosted by Zachary Levi, star of Broadway's She Loves Me. This year's event was once again a benefit for The Actors Fund. BroadwayWorld is taking you to the red carpet below!
Award presenters this year included some of the biggest and brightest stars from stage and screen, including: Whitney Bashor, Matt Bogart, Danielle Brooks, Anna Chlumsky, Daveed Diggs, Hannah Elless, Kathryn Erbe, Cynthia Erivo, John Gallagher, Jr., Renee Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Danai Gurira, David Harbour, Jason Butler Harner, Marin Ireland, Jenny Jules, Carol Kane, Adam Kantor, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Laura Linney, Jefferson Mays, Paul Nolan, Ben Rappaport, Molly Ringwald, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Stark Sands, Michael Shannon, Phillipa Soo, Ryan Spahn, Marlo Thomas, Michael Urie and Ana Villafane.
The Off-Broadway League's Lortel Awards Producing & Administration Committee (Terry Byrne, Denise Cooper, Margaret Cotter, Carol Fishman, George Forbes, Michael Page, Catherine Russell, Lindsey Sag and Seth Shepsle) produces the Lortel Awards ceremony. Acclaimed writer/director Michael Heitzman returned to direct the Lortel Awards for the seventh consecutive year. The Lucille Lortel Awards is produced by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation. Additional support is provided by Theatre Development Fund.
Representatives of the Off-Broadway League, Actors' Equity Association, Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, in addition to theatre journalists and academics and other Off-Broadway professionals, serve on the Voting Committee.
Photo Credit: Jessica Gordon
Ito Aghayere and Myra Lucretia Taylor
Chris Sarandon and Joanna Gleason
Cassie Beck and Sarah Steele
Cassie Beck and Sarah Steele
Steven Pasquale and Phillipa Soo
Lauren Klein and Frank Stern
Lauren Klein and Frank Stern
Michael C. Hall and Sophia Anne Caruso
Alison Fraser and Jeffrey Kuhn
Alison Fraser and Jeffrey Kuhn
Lauren Worsham and cast members from The Wildness
Tony Danza and Carol Kane
Tony Danza and Carol Kane
Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Scott Bixby
Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Scott Bixby
Sanjit De Silva and Deepa Purohit
Sanjit De Silva and Deepa Purohit
Liesl Tommy, Danai Gurira and Clint Ramos
Annette O'Toole
Annette O'Toole
Jason Butler Harner
Jason Butler Harner
The Futurity team
Whitney Bashor and Matt Bogart
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