Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director
Awarded forOutstanding Director
LocationUnited States
Presented byThe Off-Broadway League[1][2]
Currently held byIgor Golyak, Our Class (2025)
Websitelortelaward.com

The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director is an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor excellence in directing for an Off-Broadway musical or play production since 1989.[3]

Daniel J. Sullivan has received the most awards, with four wins from four nominations. He is followed closely by David Cromer, who won three in a row and has received the most nominations, with seven. Anne Kauffman nears his record with five nominations, as well, winning one.

Winners and nominees

Key
  and bold indicates the winner.

1980s

Year Director Production Ref.
1989 John Tillinger Love Letters [4]

1990s

Year Director Production Ref.
1990 No award given.
1991 John Tillinger The Lisbon Traviata [5]
1992 Daniel Sullivan The Substance of Fire
1993 Christopher Ashley Fires in the Mirror
1994 Lawrence Sacharow Three Tall Women
1995 Jack O’Brien Hapgood
1996 Scott Elliott The Monogamist
1997 Mark Brokaw How I Learned to Drive and This Is Our Youth
1998 Garry Hynes The Beauty Queen of Leenane
1999 Derek Anson Jones Wit

2000s

Year Director Production Ref.
2000 Susan Stroman Contact [6]
2001
Daniel Sullivan Proof [7]
Mark Brokaw Lobby Hero
Michael Greif Dogeaters
Simon McBurney Mnemonic
Marion McClinton Jitney
2002
Mary Zimmerman Metamorphoses [8]
John Rando Urinetown
Bartlett Sher Cymbeline
Mark Wing-Davey 36 Views
2003
Joe Mantello Take Me Out [9]
Jo Bonney Fifth of July
Philip Seymour Hoffman Our Lady of 121st Street
Nicholas Martin Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
Jason Moore Avenue Q
2004
Dexter Bullard Bug [10][11]
Christopher Ashley Valhalla
Mark Brokaw The Long Christmas Ride Home
Doug Hughes Frozen
Moisés Kaufman I Am My Own Wife
2005
Daniel Sullivan Intimate Apparel [12][13]
Jo Bonney Fat Pig
Scott Elliott Hurlyburly
Doug Hughes Doubt
James Lapine The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2006
Harris Yulin The Trip to Bountiful [14]
Scott Elliott Abigail's Party
Scott Ellis The Little Dog Laughed
Wilson Milam The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Billie Allen Funnyhouse of a Negro
2007
Daniel Sullivan Stuff Happens [15][16]
Derrick Sanders King Hedley II
PJ Paparelli columbinus
Michael Mayer Spring Awakening
David Warren The Voysey Inheritance
2008
David Cromer Adding Machine [17][18]
Terrence J. Nolen Opus
Bob McGrath The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (or the Friends of Dr. Rushower)
Elizabeth LeCompte Hamlet
Annie Dorsen Passing Strange
2009
David Cromer Our Town [19][20]
Kate Whoriskey Ruined
Garry Hynes The Cripple of Inishmaan
Arin Arbus Othello
Robert Woodruff Chair

2000s

Year Director Production Ref.
2010
David Cromer When the Rain Stops Falling [21]
Gordon Edelstein The Glass Menagerie
Joe Mantello The Pride
Walter Bobbie Venus in Fur
Pam MacKinnon Clybourne Park
2011
John Collins Gatz [22][23]
Joe Mantello Other Desert Cities
The Other Place
Anne Kauffman This Wide Night
Leigh Silverman In The Wake
2012
Sam Gold The Big Meal [24][25]
David Cromer Tribes
Sam Gold Look Back in Anger
Jo Bonney By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
John Tiffany Once
2013
Ruben Santiago-Hudson The Piano Lesson [26][27]
Anne Kauffman Belleville
Sam Gold The Flick
James MacDonald Cock
Tina Landau A Civil War Christmas
2014
Alex Timbers Here Lies Love [28][29]
Sam Gold Fun Home
Moritz von Stuelpnagel Hand to God
Lear deBessonet The Good Person of Szechwan
Rachel Chavkin Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
2015
Thomas Kail Hamilton [30][31]
Ken Rus Schmoll The Invisible Hand
Ivo van Hove Scenes from a Marriage
Austin Pendleton Between Riverside and Crazy
Michael Greif Our Lady of Kibeho
2016
Liesl Tommy Eclipsed [32][33]
Amy Morton Guards at the Taj
Anne Kauffman Marjorie Prime
Rachel Chavkin The Royale
Eric Tucker Sense and Sensibility
2017
Bartlett Sher Oslo [34][35]
Anne Kauffman A Life
Will Davis Men on Boats
Lila Neugebauer The Wolves
Rebecca Taichman Indecent
2018
Anne Kauffman Mary Jane [36][37]
Leigh Silverman Harry Clarke
Lileana Blain-Cruz Pipeline
Michael Greif The Low Road
Lila Neugebauer Miles For Mary
2019
Lee Sunday Evans Dance Nation [38][39]
Lileana Blain-Cruz Marys Seacole
Jo Bonney Mlima's Tale
John Doyle Carmen Jones
Joel Grey Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish

2020s

Year Director Production Ref.
2020
Annie Tippe Octet [40][41]
Tina Satter Is This A Room
Les Waters Dana H.
Danya Taymor Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Stephen Brackett A Strange Loop
2021 No ceremony held due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2022
Lee Sunday Evans Oratorio for Living Things [42][43]
David Cromer Prayer for the French Republic
John Doyle Assassins
Taibi Magar Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Whitney White On Sugarland
2023
Dustin Wills Wolf Play [44][45]
David Cromer A Case for the Existence of God
Whitney White Soft
Robert O'Hara A Raisin in the Sun
Zi Alikhan On That Day In Amsterdam
2024
nicHi douglas (pray) [46][47]
David Cromer Dead Outlaw
Eric Ting The Comeuppance
Dustin Wills Wet Brain
Daniel Aukin Stereophonic
2025
Igor Golyak Our Class [48][49]
Zhailon Levingston Table 17
Whitney White Liberation
Moisés Kaufman Here There Are Blueberries
Sam Yates Vanya

Multiple wins

4 wins
3 wins
2 wins

Multiple nominations

7 nominations
5 nominations
4 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations

See also

References

  1. ^ The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers
  2. ^ The Off-Broadway League
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