2008 Lucille Lortel Awards

Winners and nominees from the Lucille Lortel Awards.

2008 Lucille Lortel Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence	Theodore Mann
Outstanding Body of Work	Primary Stages
Outstanding Choreographer	Peter Pucci	Queens Boulevard (the musical)
Outstanding Choreographer	Marcia Milgrom Dodge	Seussical
Outstanding Choreographer	Lynne Taylor-Corbett	Wanda’s World
Outstanding Costume Design	Kristine Knanishu	Adding Machine
Outstanding Costume Design	Michael Bottari, Jessica Jahn, Ronald Case	Die Mommie Die!
Outstanding Costume Design	Tracy Christensen	Seussical

Outstanding Costume Design	Jenny Mannis	The Drunken City
Outstanding Costume Design	Mara Blumenfeld	The Glorious Ones

Outstanding Director	David Cromer	Adding Machine
Outstanding Director	Terrence J. Nolen	Opus
Outstanding Director	Annie Dorsen	Passing Strange
Outstanding Director	Bob McGrath	The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (or the Friends of Dr. Rushower)
Outstanding Director	Elizabeth LeCompte	The Wooster Group’s HAMLET
Outstanding Featured Actor	Lorenzo Pisoni	Election Day


Outstanding Featured Actor	Brian Murray	Gaslight
Outstanding Featured Actor	Aaron Tveit	Next to Normal
Outstanding Featured Actor	David Margulies	The Accomplices
Outstanding Featured Actor	Francis Jue	Yellow Face

Outstanding Featured Actress	Mare Winningham	10 Million Miles
Outstanding Featured Actress	Zoe Kazan	100 Saints You Should Know
Outstanding Featured Actress	Amy Warren	Adding Machine
Outstanding Featured Actress	Veanne Cox	Paradise Park

Outstanding Featured Actress	Veanne Cox	Spain
Outstanding Lead Actor	Joel Hatch	Adding Machine
Outstanding Lead Actor	André De Shields	Black Nativity
Outstanding Lead Actor	Jeff Daniels	Blackbird
Outstanding Lead Actor	Morlan Higgins	Exits and Entrances
Outstanding Lead Actor	Jeremy Strong	New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656

Outstanding Lead Actress	Alison Pill	Blackbird
Outstanding Lead Actress	Lynn Redgrave	Grace


Outstanding Lead Actress	Lisa Gay Hamilton	Ohio State Murders
Outstanding Lead Actress	Elizabeth Franz	The Piano Teacher
Outstanding Lead Actress	Jayne Houdyshell	The Receptionist
Outstanding Lighting Design	Keith Parham	Adding Machine
Outstanding Lighting Design	Peter Mumford	Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?
Outstanding Lighting Design	Russell H. Champa	Eurydice
Outstanding Lighting Design	Kevin Adams	Next to Normal
Outstanding Lighting Design	Kevin Adams	Passing Strange


Outstanding Musical	Tom Wirtshafter, Scott Morfee, Margaret Cotter	Adding Machine
Outstanding Musical	Second Stage Theatre	Next to Normal
Outstanding Musical	The Public Theater	Passing Strange
Outstanding Musical	Vineyard Theatre	The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (or the Friends of Dr. Rushower)
Outstanding Musical	Amas Musical Theatre	Wanda’s World
Outstanding Play	Culture Project	Betrayed
Outstanding Play	Manhattan Theatre Club	Blackbird
Outstanding Play	Classic Stage Company	New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656


Outstanding Play	Primary Stages	Opus
Outstanding Play	The Public Theater	The Brothers Size

Outstanding Revival	New York Theatre Workshop	Beckett Shorts
Outstanding Revival	Jamie deRoy, Primary Stages	Dividing the Estate
Outstanding Revival	Theatre for a New Audience	Ohio State Murders
Outstanding Revival	Theatreworks USA	Seussical
Outstanding Revival	New York Theatre Workshop	The Misanthrope
Outstanding Scenic Design	Derek McLane	10 Million Miles

Outstanding Scenic Design	Scott Pask	Blackbird
Outstanding Scenic Design	Scott Bradley	Eurydice
Outstanding Scenic Design	David Zinn	The Four of Us
Outstanding Scenic Design	Jim Findlay, Jeff Sugg	The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (or the Friends of Dr. Rushower)

Outstanding Solo Show	Roundabout Theatre Company	Beyond Glory
Outstanding Solo Show	Bernie Kukoff, Jonathan Pollard, Highbrow Entertainment	Dai (enough)
Outstanding Solo Show	Jon Cutler	Dai (enough)
Outstanding Solo Show	New York Theatre Workshop	Liberty City


Outstanding Solo Show	Culture Project	Tings Dey Happen
Outstanding Sound Design	Frank Gaeta	Dai (enough)
Outstanding Sound Design	Darron L West	Dead Man’s Cell Phone
Outstanding Sound Design	Jorge Cousineau	Opus
Outstanding Sound Design	Daniel Baker	The Four of Us
Outstanding Sound Design	Geoff Abbas, Joby Emmons, Fischerspoone, Matt Schloss, Matt Tierney	The Wooster Group’s HAMLET

Unique Theatrical Experience	Horizon

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2008 Lucille Lortel Awards

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