Winners of the 2025 Lucille Lortel Awards were named in a ceremony at NYU Skirball May 4, with Arlekin Players' Our Class leading the pack with four wins, including Outstanding Revival.
Presenters included Kandi Burruss, Lea DeLaria, Jay Ellis, Stephanie Nur, J. Harrison Ghee, Ilana Glazer, Maya Hawke, and Alaska Thunderfuck.
Our Class, which played Classic Stage Company last year following two runs at Brooklyn Academy of Music, had gone into the ceremony as the front runner with six nods, tied with fellow six-time nominated productions Drag: The Musical and Three Houses. Drag ended the evening empty handed, but Three Houses managed to pull in a single one, and quite a good one: Outstanding Musical.
Also performing well with wins were New York Theatre Workshop's Here There Are Blueberries, The Big Gay Jamboree, and MCC Theater's Table 17, each taking two wins. Outstanding Play went to Here There Are Blueberries, and Outstanding Solo Show went to Vanya, starring Andrew Scott, rounding out the evening's production wins.
As previously announced, special honorees this year include Playwrights鈥� Sidewalk Inductee Alice Childress, Outstanding Body of Work recipient New Federal Theatre, and the Edith Oliver Service to Off-Broadway Award to Carol Fishman.
See the full list of winners below:
Outstanding Play
WINNER - Here There Are Blueberries, by Mois茅s Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
Liberation, by Bess Wohl
Sumo, by Lisa Sanaye Dring
The Antiquities, by Jordan Harrison
We Had a World, by Joshua Harmon
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Outstanding Musical
Drag: The Musical 鈥� book, music, and lyrics by Tomas Costanza, Justin Andrew Honard, and Ashley Gordon
Medea: Re-Versed 鈥� written by Luis Quintero, adapted from Euripides
The Big Gay Jamboree 鈥� book by Marla Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage, music and lyrics by Marla Mindelle and Philip Drennen
WINNER - Three Houses 鈥� music, lyrics, and book by Dave Malloy
We Live in Cairo 鈥� book, music, and lyrics by The Lazours
Outstanding Revival
Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave, by Samuel Beckett
Ghosts, by Henrik Ibsen, with a new version by Mark O'Rowe
Hold on to Me Darling, by Kenneth Lonergan
WINNER - Our Class, by Tadeusz S艂obodzianek, adapted by Norman Allen
Wine in the Wilderness, by Alice Childress
Outstanding Solo Show
300 Paintings, written and performed by Sam Kissajukian
A Knock on the Roof, written and performed by Khawla Ibraheem
WINNER - Vanya, co-created by Andrew Scott, Simon Stephens, Sam Yates, and Rosanna Vize, adapted by Simon Stephens. Performed by Andrew Scott
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Outstanding Director
WINNER - Igor Golyak, Our Class
Mois茅s Kaufman, Here There Are Blueberries
Zhailon Levingston, Table 17
Whitney White, Liberation
Sam Yates, Vanya
Outstanding Choreographer (tie)
WINNER - Connor Gallagher, The Big Gay Jamboree
Spencer Liff, Drag: The Musical
Or Schraiber, Our Class
WINNER - Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Distant Thunder
Annie Tippe, Three Houses
Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play
Adam Driver, Hold on to Me Darling
Madison Ferris, All of Me
Susannah Flood, Liberation
Lily Rabe, Ghosts
Paul Sparks, Grangeville
Marisa Tomei, Babe
WINNER - Kara Young, Table 17
Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play
Betsy Aidem, Liberation
Stephanie Berry, Staff Meal
Ahmad Kamal, Sumo
Julia Lester, All Nighter
WINNER - Michael Rishawn, Table 17
Olivia Washington, Wine in the Wilderness
Frank Wood, Hold on to Me Darling
Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical
Marla Mindelle, The Big Gay Jamboree
J.D. Mollison, Three Houses
Mia Pak, Three Houses
Lauren Patten, The Lonely Few
Margo Seibert, Three Houses
Alaska Thunderfuck, Drag: The Musical
WINNER - Sarin Monae West, Medea: Re-Versed
Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical
Jujubee, Drag: The Musical
Eddie Korbich, Drag: The Musical
Jacob Ming-Trent, Medea: Re-Versed
WINNER - Paris Nix, The Big Gay Jamboree
Helen J Shen, The Lonely Few
Natalie Walker, The Big Gay Jamboree
Outstanding Ensemble
Here There Are Blueberries 鈥� Scott Barrow, Nemuna Ceesay, Kathleen Chalfant, Jonathan Raviv, Erika Rose, Elizabeth Stahlmann, Charlie Thurston, Grant James Varjas
WINNER - Our Class 鈥� Gus Birney, Andrey Burkovskiy, Jos茅 Espinosa, Tess Goldwyn, Will Manning, Stephen Ochsner, Alexandra Silber, Richard Topol, Ilia Volok, Elan Zafir
We Live in Cairo 鈥� Ali Louis Bourzgui, Drew Elhamalawy, John El-Jor, Nadina Hassan, Michael Khalid Karadsheh, Rotana Tarabzouni
Outstanding Scenic Design
dots, Three Houses
Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose, The Beastiary
Derek McLane, Here There Are Blueberries
WINNER - Jan Pappelbaum, Our Class
Matt Saunders, Jordans
Outstanding Costume Design
WINNER - Oana Botez, Orlando
Qween Jean, Liberation
Marco Marco, Drag: The Musical
Rodrigo Mu帽oz, Sally & Tom
Mariko Ohigashi, Sumo
Outstanding Lighting Design
Stacey Derosier, Grangeville
Michael Gottlieb, Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave
WINNER - Tyler Micoleau, The Antiquities
Ben Stanton, Table 17
Japhy Weideman, Ghosts
Outstanding Sound Design
Nick Kourtides, Travels
WINNER - Fabian Obispo, Sumo
Matt Otto, All of Me
Matt Otto, Medea: Re-Versed
Ryan Rumery and M. Florian Staab, Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave
READ: For Its Actors, SUMO Is a Showcase of 'Beautiful, Powerful Fat Bodies'
Outstanding Projection Design
WINNER - David Bengali, Here There Are Blueberries
David Bengali, We Live in Cairo
Eric Dunlap, Igor Golyak, and Andreea Mincic, Our Class
Hana S. Kim, Sumo
Brian Pacelli, Scarlett Dreams
HONORARY AWARDS
Playwrights鈥� Sidewalk Inductee: Alice Childress
Outstanding Body of Work: New Federal Theatre
Edith Oliver Service to Off-Broadway: Carol Fishman
Wins by Show:
Our Class - 4
The Big Gay Jamboree - 2
Here There Are Blueberries - 2
Table 17 - 2
The Antiquities - 1
Distant Thunder - 1
Medea: Re-Versed - 1
Orlando - 1
Sumo - 1
Three Houses - 1
Vanya - 1
This year's Lortels considered Off-Broadway productions that opened between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025. The awards were voted on by representatives of the theatrical unions, the Off-Broadway League, theatre journalists, academics, and other Off-Broadway professionals. There were 70 eligible productions in the season.
The Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by TDF.
The Off-Broadway League鈥檚 Lortel Awards Administration Committee is made up of Jeremy Adams, Alana Canty-Samuel, Tisa Chang, Carol Fishman, George Forbes, Kenneth Naanep, Ralph Pe帽a, Catherine Russell, Michael Sag, Jonathan Whitton, Casey York, and Jeffrey Shubart, Chair.
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