2009 Lucille Lortel Awards

Winners and nominees from the Lucille Lortel Awards.

2009 Lucille Lortel Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Outstanding Solo Show	Manhattan Theatre Club	Humor Abuse
Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence	Ira Weitzman
Outstanding Body of Work	The Lark Play Development Center
Outstanding Choreographer	Bill T. Jones	Fela!
Outstanding Choreographer	Martha Clarke	Garden of Earthly Delights
Outstanding Choreographer	Shonn Wiley, Lynne Taylor-Corbett	My Vaudeville Man!
Outstanding Choreographer	Sergio Trujillo	Saved
Outstanding Choreographer	Janet Miller	The Marvelous Wonderettes

Outstanding Costume Design	Marina Draghici	Fela!
Outstanding Costume Design	Theresa Squire	Rafta, Rafta...

Outstanding Costume Design	Ann Hould-Ward	Road Show
Outstanding Costume Design	Karen Perry	The First Breeze of Summer
Outstanding Costume Design	Toni-Leslie James	Wig Out!
Outstanding Director	Robert Woodruff	Chair
Outstanding Director	Arin Arbus	Othello
Outstanding Director	David Cromer	Our Town


Outstanding Director	Kate Whoriskey	Ruined
Outstanding Director	Garry Hynes	The Cripple of Inishmaan
Outstanding Featured Actor	Utkarsh Ambudkar	Animals Out of Paper
Outstanding Featured Actor	Thomas Sadoski	Becky Shaw

Outstanding Featured Actor	John McMartin	Saturn Returns
Outstanding Featured Actor	Aaron Monaghan	The Cripple of Inishmaan
Outstanding Featured Actor	Francois Battiste	The Good Negro
Outstanding Featured Actress	Annika Boras	Chair

Outstanding Featured Actress	Lisa Emery	Distracted
Outstanding Featured Actress	Juliet Rylance	Othello
Outstanding Featured Actress	Kerry Condon	The Cripple of Inishmaan
Outstanding Featured Actress	Mamie Gummer	Uncle Vanya
Outstanding Lead Actor	Josh Grisetti	Enter Laughing, The Musical
Outstanding Lead Actor	Sahr Ngaujah	Fela! A New Musical

Outstanding Lead Actor	John Douglas Thompson	Othello
Outstanding Lead Actor	Ned Eisenberg	Othello


Outstanding Lead Actor	Brian d'Arcy James	Port Authority
Outstanding Lead Actress	Annie Parisse	Becky Shaw
Outstanding Lead Actress	Carmen M. Herlihy	crooked
Outstanding Lead Actress	Saidah Arrika Ekulona	Ruined
Outstanding Lead Actress	Ellen Burstyn	The Little Flower of East Orange
Outstanding Lead Actress	Kellie Overbey	The Savannah Disputation
Outstanding Lighting Design	Mark Barton	Chair
Outstanding Lighting Design	Christopher Akerlind	Garden of Earthly Delights


Outstanding Lighting Design	Jason Lyons	Mourning Becomes Electra
Outstanding Lighting Design	Marcus Doshi	Othello
Outstanding Lighting Design	Lap Chi Chu	The Good Negro
Outstanding Musical	Roy Gabay, Roy Gabay, Roy Gabay, Ruth and Stephen Hendel	Fela!
Outstanding Musical	Melanie Harman, The York Theatre Company	My Vaudeville Man!
Outstanding Musical	The Public Theater	Road Show
Outstanding Musical	Playwrights Horizons	Saved
Outstanding Musical	Vineyard Theatre	This Beautiful City


Outstanding Play	Second Stage Theatre	Animals Out of Paper
Outstanding Play	Second Stage Theatre	Becky Shaw

Outstanding Play	Manhattan Theatre Club	Ruined
Outstanding Play	Goodman Theatre	Ruined
Outstanding Play	The Public Theater	The Good Negro
Outstanding Play	New York Theatre Workshop, Elevator Repair Service	The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)
Outstanding Revival	The York Theatre Company	Enter Laughing
Outstanding Revival	Theatre for a New Audience	Othello

Outstanding Revival	Jean Doumanian, Scott Morfee, Burnt Umber Productions, The Weinstein Company, Dena Hammerstein/Pam Pariseau, Ted Snowdon, Tom Wirtshafter	Our Town
Outstanding Revival	Druid Theatre Company, Atlantic Theater Company	The Cripple of Inishmaan
Outstanding Revival	Mint Theater Company	The Glass Cage
Outstanding Scenic Design	Beowulf Boritt	Animals Out of Paper

Outstanding Scenic Design	David Zinn	Chair
Outstanding Scenic Design	Marina Draghici	Fela!
Outstanding Scenic Design	Roger Hanna	The Glass Cage
Outstanding Scenic Design	James Schuette	Wig Out!


Outstanding Solo Show	Eli Gonda, Peter Saraf, Ryan Scott Warren, Marc Turtletaub	Sleepwalk With Me
Outstanding Sound Design	Quentin Chiappetta	Irena's Vow
Outstanding Sound Design	John Gromada	Shipwrecked! An Entertainment
Outstanding Sound Design	Matt Tierney	The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)
Outstanding Sound Design	Jane Shaw	The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
Outstanding Sound Design	Robert Kaplowitz	Wig Out!

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2009 Lucille Lortel Awards

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