2026 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Winners and nominees from the Outer Critics Circle Awards.
2026 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| John Gassner Award (for a new American play preferably by a new playwright) | Jamie Wax | Call Me Izzy |
| John Gassner Award (for a new American play preferably by a new playwright) | Preston Max Allen | Caroline |
| John Gassner Award (for a new American play preferably by a new playwright) | Ro Reddick | Cold War Choir Practice |
| John Gassner Award (for a new American play preferably by a new playwright) | Matthew Libby | Data |
| John Gassner Award (for a new American play preferably by a new playwright) | Bubba Weiler | Well, I'll Let You Go |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Douglas Lyon | Beau the Musical |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Nygel D. Robinson, Brian Quijada | Mexodus |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Cinco Paul | Schmigadoon! |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Chris Hoch, David Hornsby | The Lost Boys |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Jim Barne, Kit Buchan | Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) |
| Outstanding Choreography | Darrell Grand Moultrie | Goddess |
| Outstanding Choreography | Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui | Masquerade |
| Outstanding Choreography | Darrell Grand Moultrie | Saturday Church |
| Outstanding Choreography | Christopher Gattelli | Schmigadoon! |
| Outstanding Choreography | Rickey Tripp | The Monsters |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Jeff Mahshie | Fallen Angels |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Dede Ayite | Goddess |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Emilio Sosa | Masquerade |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Linda Cho | Schmigadoon! |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Ryan Park | The Lost Boys |
| Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Diane Paulus | Masquerade |
| Outstanding Direction of a Musical | David Mendizábal | Mexodus |
| Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Lee Sunday Evans | Oratorio for Living Things |
| Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Lear deBessonet | Ragtime |
| Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Michael Arden | The Lost Boys |
| Outstanding Direction of a Play | Trip Cullman | Becky Shaw |
| Outstanding Direction of a Play | Joe Mantello | Death of a Salesman |
| Outstanding Direction of a Play | Debbie Allen | Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
| Outstanding Direction of a Play | Robert Icke | Oedipus |
| Outstanding Direction of a Play | Bijan Shibani, Tarell Alvin McCraney | The Brothers Size |
| Outstanding Direction of a Play | Ngozi Anyanwu | The Monsters |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | Ben Levi Ross | Ragtime |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | Max Clayton | Schmigadoon! |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | Benjamin Pajak, Ali Louis Bourzgui | The Lost Boys |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | Andrew Durand | The Rocky Horror Show |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | Laurie Metcalf | Death of a Salesman |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | Christopher Abbott | Death of a Salesman |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | Jessica Hecht | Dog Day Afternoon |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | Danny Burstein | Marjorie Prime |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | J. Harrison Ghee | Saturday Church |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Jasmine Amy Rogers, Kevin McHale, Justin Cooley | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Judy Kuhn | The Baker's Wife |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | River Lipe-Smith | Caroline |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Brian d'Arcy James | Eurydice |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Andrea Martin | Meet the Cartozians |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Malcolm Mays | The Brothers Size |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Caroline Aaron | The Reservoir |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Jessica Vosk | Beaches |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Nicholas Christopher | Chess |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Joshua Henry | Ragtime |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Brandon Uranowitz | Ragtime |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Sara Chase | Schmigadoon! |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Luke Evans | The Rocky Horror Show |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | Sam Tutty | Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | Nathan Lane | Death of a Salesman |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | Kelli O'Hara, Rose Byrne, Rose Byrne | Fallen Angels |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | John Lithgow | Giant |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | Lesley Manville | Oedipus |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | Will Harrison, Will Harrison | Punch |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Matt Rodin | Beau the Musical |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Amber Iman | Goddess |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Nygel D. Robinson | Mexodus |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Brian Quijada | Mexodus |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Micaela Diamond | The Seat of Our Pants |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Alana Raquel Bowers | Cold War Choir Practice |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | André Holland, Alani iLongwe | The Brothers Size |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Aigner Mizzelle | The Monsters |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Quincy Tyler Bernstine | Well, I'll Let You Go |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Adam Honoré | Cats: The Jellicle Ball |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Jack Knowles | Death of a Salesman |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Studio Luna | Marcel on the Train |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Mextly Couzin | Mexodus |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Michael Arden | The Lost Boys |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Jen Schriever | The Lost Boys |
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Schmigadoon! | Schmigadoon! |
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | The Lost Boys | The Lost Boys |
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) | Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) |
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | Giant | Giant |
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | Little Bear Ridge Road | Little Bear Ridge Road |
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | Oedipus | Oedipus |
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | Punch | Punch |
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | The Balusters | The Balusters |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | Beau the Musical | Beau the Musical |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | Goddess | Goddess |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | Mexodus | Mexodus |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | Oratorio for Living Things | Oratorio for Living Things |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | Saturday Church | Saturday Church |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | Angry Alan | Angry Alan |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | Meet the Cartozians | Meet the Cartozians |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | Prince F****t | Prince F****t |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | The Monsters | The Monsters |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | The Reservoir | The Reservoir |
| Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Michael Thurber | Goddess |
| Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Nygel D. Robinson, Brian Quijada, Mikhail Fiksel | Mexodus |
| Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Fraser Campbell, Jane Cardona, Ben Moss, Odetta Hartman, John Murchison, Peter Wise | Oratorio for Living Things |
| Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Doug Besterman, Mike Morris | Schmigadoon! |
| Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | The Rescues, Ethan Popp | The Lost Boys |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Chess | Chess |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Masquerade | Masquerade |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Ragtime | Ragtime |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | The Baker's Wife | The Baker's Wife |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Becky Shaw | Becky Shaw |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Death of a Salesman | Death of a Salesman |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Joe Turner's Come and Gone | Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Marjorie Prime | Marjorie Prime |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | The Brothers Size | The Brothers Size |
| Outstanding Scenic Design | Adam Rigg, Anton Volovsek | Bowl EP |
| Outstanding Scenic Design | James Fluhr | Masquerade |
| Outstanding Scenic Design | Scott Pask | Schmigadoon! |
| Outstanding Scenic Design | Jason Sherwood | The Baker's Wife |
| Outstanding Scenic Design | Dane Laffrey | The Lost Boys |
| Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Douglas Lyons, Ethan D. Pakchar | Beau the Musical |
| Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Nygel D. Robinson, Brian Quijada | Mexodus |
| Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Heather Christian | Oratorio for Living Things |
| Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | The Rescues | The Lost Boys |
| Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Kit Buchan, Jim Barne | Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Jean Smart | Call Me Izzy |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Daniel Radcliffe | Every Brilliant Thing |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Jack Holden | Kenrex |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Mary Kate O Flanagan | Making a Show of Myself |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Sean Hayes | The Unknown |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Brett Jarvis | Masquerade |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Mikhail Fiksel | Mexodus |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Nick Kourtides | Oratorio for Living Things |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Adam Fisher | The Lost Boys |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Caroline Eng | The Unknown |
| Outstanding Video/Projection Design | John Narun | Bughouse |
| Outstanding Video/Projection Design | Akhila Krishnan | Kyoto |
| Outstanding Video/Projection Design | Johnny Moreno | Mexodus |
| Outstanding Video/Projection Design | 59 Studio | Ragtime |
| Outstanding Video/Projection Design | Derek McLane | This World of Tomorrow |
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