2003 Lucille Lortel Awards

Winners and nominees from the Lucille Lortel Awards.

2003 Lucille Lortel Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence	Marian Seldes
Outstanding Body of Work	Vineyard Theatre
Outstanding Choreographer	Ken Roberson	Avenue Q
Outstanding Choreographer	Ronald K. Brown	Crowns
Outstanding Choreographer	Fatima Robinson	Radiant Baby
Outstanding Choreographer	Martha Clarke	Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited)
Outstanding Choreographer	Devanand Janki	Zanna, Don't!
Outstanding Costume Design	Paul Tazewell	Boston Marriage

Outstanding Costume Design	Catherine Zuber	Far Away
Outstanding Costume Design	Susan Hilferty	My Life With Albertine

Outstanding Costume Design	Ronald Case, Michael Bottari	Shanghai Moon
Outstanding Director	Jason Moore	Avenue Q
Outstanding Director	Jo Bonney	Fifth of July
Outstanding Director	Nicholas Martin	Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
Outstanding Director	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Our Lady of 121st Street
Outstanding Director	Joe Mantello	Take Me Out


Outstanding Featured Actor	Mos Def	Fucking A
Outstanding Featured Actor	Justin Theroux	Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
Outstanding Featured Actor	Ron Cephas Jones	Our Lady of 121st Street
Outstanding Featured Actor	Walter Bobbie	Polish Joke

Outstanding Featured Actor	Denis O'Hare	Take Me Out
Outstanding Featured Actress	Daphne Rubin-Vega	Fucking A
Outstanding Featured Actress	Jan Maxwell	My Old Lady
Outstanding Featured Actress	Portia	Our Lady of 121st Street

Outstanding Featured Actress	Nancy Opel	Polish Joke
Outstanding Featured Actress	Anika Larsen	Zanna, Don't!
Outstanding Lead Actor	Edward Norton	Burn This
Outstanding Lead Actor	Jim Dale	Comedians
Outstanding Lead Actor	Jason Petty	Hank Williams: Lost Highway
Outstanding Lead Actor	Charles Busch	Shanghai Moon

Outstanding Lead Actor	Daniel Sunjata	Take Me Out
Outstanding Lead Actress	Pamela Payton-Wright, Parker Posey	Fifth of July


Outstanding Lead Actress	S. Epatha Merkerson	Fucking A
Outstanding Lead Actress	Tovah Feldshuh	Golda's Balcony
Outstanding Lead Actress	Kate Mulgrew	Tea at Five
Outstanding Lifetime Achievement	Stephen Sondheim
Outstanding Lighting Design	Christopher Akerlind	Don Juan
Outstanding Lighting Design	James Vermeulen	Fifth of July
Outstanding Lighting Design	James F. Ingalls	My Life With Albertine
Outstanding Lighting Design	Donald Holder	Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme


Outstanding Lighting Design	Howell Binkley	Radiant Baby
Outstanding Musical	The New Group, Vineyard Theatre	Avenue Q
Outstanding Musical	Manhattan Ensemble Theater	Hank Williams
Outstanding Musical	The Joseph Papp Public Theater	Outstanding Musical
Outstanding Musical	New York Shakespeare Festival	Radiant Baby
Outstanding Musical	Jack M. Dalgleish, Stephanie Joel	Zanna, Don't!
Outstanding Play	Atlantic Theater Company	Dublin Carol
Outstanding Play	Lincoln Center Theater	Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme


Outstanding Play	John Gould Rubin, the LAByrinth Theater Company, Daryl Roth, Ruth Hendel, Robyn Goodman, Ira Pittelman	Our Lady of 121st Street
Outstanding Play	The Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York Shakespeare Festival, The Donmar Warehouse	Take Me Out

Outstanding Revival	Signature Theatre Company	Burn This
Outstanding Revival	The New Group	Comedians
Outstanding Revival	Theatre for a New Audience	Don Juan
Outstanding Revival	Signature Theatre Company	Fifth of July
Outstanding Scenic Design	Anna Louizos	Avenue Q
Outstanding Scenic Design	Christopher Akerlind	Don Juan

Outstanding Scenic Design	John Lee Beatty	My Old Lady
Outstanding Scenic Design	Alexander Dodge	Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
Outstanding Scenic Design	Mark Wendland	The World Over
Outstanding Sound Design	Brett Jarvis	Avenue Q

Outstanding Sound Design	Paul Arditti	Far Away
Outstanding Sound Design	Mark Bennett	Golda's Balcony
Outstanding Sound Design	Jerry Yager	Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
Unique Theatrical Experience	The Culture Project, Dede Harris, Morton Swinsky, Bob Balaban, Harit Allan Buchman, Patrick Blake, David Elliott, Jane Bergère, Ruth Hendel, Cheryl Wiesenfeld	The Exonerated

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2003 Lucille Lortel Awards

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