2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Winners and nominees from the Outer Critics Circle Awards.
2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| John Gassner Award (new American play preferably by a new playwright) | Emil Weinstein | Becoming Eve |
| John Gassner Award (new American play preferably by a new playwright) | George Clooney, George Clooney, Grant Heslov | Good Night, and Good Luck |
| John Gassner Award (new American play preferably by a new playwright) | Marin Ireland | Pre-Existing Condition |
| John Gassner Award (new American play preferably by a new playwright) | Lia Romeo | Still |
| John Gassner Award (new American play preferably by a new playwright) | Amy Berryman | Walden |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Bob Martin | Boop! The Musical |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Marco Pennette | Death Becomes Her |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Will Aronson, Hue Park | Maybe Happy Ending |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Natasha Hodgson, David Cumming, Zoë Roberts, Felix Hagan | Operation Mincemeat |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Daniel Lazour, Patrick Lazour | We Live in Cairo |
| Outstanding Choreography | Jerry Mitchell | Boop! the Musical |
| Outstanding Choreography | Christopher Gattelli | Death Becomes Her |
| Outstanding Choreography | Shannon Lewis | Just in Time |
| Outstanding Choreography | Jenny Arnold | Operation Mincemeat |
| Outstanding Choreography | Warren Carlyle | Pirates! The Penzance Musical |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Qween Jean | Cats: The Jellicle Ball |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Gregg Barnes | Boop! The Musical |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Paul Tazewell | Death Becomes Her |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Paloma Young, Wilberth Gonzalez | Real Women Have Curves |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Rob Howell | The Hills of California |
| Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Bill Rauch, Zhailon Levingston | Cats: The Jellicle Ball |
| Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Jerry Mitchell | Boop! The Musical |
| Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Christopher Gattelli | Death Becomes Her |
| Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Michael Arden | Maybe Happy Ending |
| Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Robert Hastie | Operation Mincemeat |
| Outstanding Direction of a Play | Trip Cullman | Cult of Love |
| Outstanding Direction of a Play | Danya Taymor | John Proctor Is the Villain |
| Outstanding Direction of a Play | Phylicia Rashad | Purpose |
| Outstanding Direction of a Play | Justin Martin, Stephen Daldry | Stranger Things: The First Shadow |
| Outstanding Direction of a Play | Sam Mendes | The Hills of California |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | Christopher Sieber | Death Becomes Her |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | Danny Burstein | Gypsy |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | Michele Pawk | Just in Time |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | Michael Urie | Once Upon a Mattress |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | Jak Malone | Operation Mincemeat |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | Mare Winningham | Cult of Love |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | Kieran Culkin | Glengarry Glen Ross |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Kara Young | Purpose |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | Francis Jue | Yellow Face |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Andre De Shields | Cats: The Jellicle Ball |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | J. Elaine Marcos, Eddie Korbich | Drag: The Musical |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Paris Nix | The Big Gay Jamboree |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Henry Stram | Three Houses |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Ali Louis Bourzgui | We Live in Cairo |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Richard Schiff | Becoming Eve |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Frank Wood | Hold On to Me Darling |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Betsy Aidem | Liberation |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Michael Rishawn | Table 17 |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Sean Bell | The Beacon |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Jasmine Amy Rogers | Boop! The Musical |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Jennifer Simard | Death Becomes Her |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Jeremy Jordan | Floyd Collins |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Audra McDonald | Gypsy |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Darren Criss | Maybe Happy Ending |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Nicole Scherzinger | Sunset Boulevard |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | Jon Michael Hill | Purpose |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | Kit Connor | Romeo + Juliet |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | Louis McCartney | Stranger Things: The First Shadow |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | Laura Donnelly | The Hills of California |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | Mia Farrow | The Roommate |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Nick Adams | Drag: The Musical |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Alaska Thunderfuck | Drag: The Musical |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Taylor Trensch, Nkeki Obi-Melekwe | Safety Not Guaranteed |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Marla Mindelle | The Big Gay Jamboree |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | F. Murray Abraham | Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Caroline Aaron | Conversations with Mother |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Paul Sparks | Grangeville |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Adam Driver | Hold On to Me Darling |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Jayne Atkinson | Still |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Anthony Edwards | The Counter |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Justin Townsend | Death Becomes Her |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Ben Stanton | Maybe Happy Ending |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Jon Clark | Stranger Things: The First Shadow |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Kevin Adams | Swept Away |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Natasha Chivers | The Hills of California |
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Maybe Happy Ending | |
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Boop! The Musical, Real Women Have Curves, Operation Mincemeat, Death Becomes Her | |
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | John Proctor Is the Villain | |
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | The Hills of California, Cult of Love, Purpose, Stranger Things: The First Shadow | |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | Drag: The Musical | |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | The Big Gay Jamboree, We Live in Cairo | |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | Liberation | |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | The Antiquities, Grangeville, Table 17, Here There Are Blueberries | |
| Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Doug Besterman | Death Becomes Her |
| Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Michael Thurber, Andrew Resnick | Just in Time |
| Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Will Aronson | Maybe Happy Ending |
| Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Daryl Waters, Joseph Joubert | Pirates! The Penzance Musical |
| Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Michael Starobin, Daniel Lazour | We Live in Cairo |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Cats: The Jellicle Ball | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Gypsy, Floyd Collins, Once Upon a Mattress, Sunset Boulevard | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Vanya | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Yellow Face, Romeo + Juliet, Glengarry Glen Ross, Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave | |
| Outstanding Scenic Design | Derek McLane | Death Becomes Her |
| Outstanding Scenic Design | Dane Laffrey | Maybe Happy Ending |
| Outstanding Scenic Design | Miriam Buether, Chris Fisher, Jamie Harrison | Stranger Things: The First Shadow |
| Outstanding Scenic Design | Rachel Hauck | Swept Away |
| Outstanding Scenic Design | Rob Howell | The Hills of California |
| Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Susan Birkenhead, David Foster | Boop! The Musical |
| Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Noel Carey, Julia Mattison | Death Becomes Her |
| Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Will Aronson, Hue Park | Maybe Happy Ending |
| Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Zoë Roberts, Felix Hagan, David Cumming, Natasha Hodgson | Operation Mincemeat |
| Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Benjamin Velez, Joy Huerta | Real Women Have Curves |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Sam Kissajukian | 300 Paintings |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Khawla Ibraheem | A Knock on the Roof |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | David Greenspan | I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Sarah Snook | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Andrew Scott | Vanya |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Peter Hylenski | Death Becomes Her |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Peter Hylenski | Maybe Happy Ending |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Paul Arditti | Stranger Things: The First Shadow |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Adam Fisher | Sunset Boulevard |
| Outstanding Sound Design | John Shivers | Swept Away |
| Outstanding Video/Projections | Hana S. Kim | Redwood |
| Outstanding Video/Projections | Finn Ross | Boop! The Musical |
| Outstanding Video/Projections | Nathan Amzi, Joe Ransom | Sunset Boulevard |
| Outstanding Video/Projections | David Bergman | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Outstanding Video/Projections | 59 | tranger Things: The First Shadow |
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