2007 Lucille Lortel Nominations and Special Award Winners Announced

Nominations and special awards for the 22nd annual Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring the best of Off-Broadway, were announced today. The awards ceremony will be held on Monday, May 7 at New World Stages, with Bebe Neuwirth and Eric Bogosian as hosts.

During the ceremony, actor Kevin Kline will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, noted fight director Rick Sordelet will receive the Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence, and the Classical Theatre of Harlem will receive a special award for Outstanding Body of Work. As previously announced, The Actors’ Fund of America will be presented with a special award for 125 years of service, and Christopher Durang will be honored with a star on the Playwright’s Sidewalk outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

The Atlantic Theatre’s productions of Spring Awakening, which moved to Broadway last fall, and The Voysey Inheritance received a grand total of 11 nominations. The Public Theater’s production of Stuff Happens received five nominations. Among the actors up for Lortel Awards are Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ed Harris (for Neil LaBute’s Wrecks), Jill Clayburgh, Patricia Heaton, and Sherie Rene Scott.

A complete list of nominees follows:

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OUTSTANDING PLAY:

The Busy World Is Hushed
Dying City
Indian Blood
Stuff Happens

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL:

Gutenberg! The Musical!
In the Heights
Spring Awakening
Striking 12

OUTSTANDING SOLO SHOW:

¡El Conquistador!
No Child…
Wrecks

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL:
King Hedley II
Landscape of the Body
Two Trains Running
The Voysey Inheritance

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR:
Michael Mayer, Spring Awakening
PJ Paparelli, columbinus
Derrick Sanders, King Hedley II
Daniel Sullivan, Stuff Happens
David Warren, The Voysey Inheritance

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER:
Hinton Battle, Evil Dead the Musical
Andy Blankenbuehler, In the Heights
Devanand Janki, Henry and Mudge
Bill T. Jones, Spring Awakening

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR:
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Goes Boating
Russell Hornsby, King Hedley II
Peter Francis James, Stuff Happens
Lee Pace, Guardians
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Voysey Inheritance

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS:

Rebecca Brooksher, Dying City
Jill Clayburgh, The Busy World Is Hushed
Patricia Heaton, The Scene
Gloria Reuben, Stuff Happens
Laila Robins, Sore Throats

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR:
Arthur French, Two Trains Running
David Greenspan, Some Men
Ron Cephas Jones, Two Trains Running
Robert Sella, Stuff Happens
Harris Yulin, Frank’s Home

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS:

Anna Camp, The Scene
Mamie Gummer, The Water’s Edge
Nina Hellman, The Internationalist
Michele Ragusa, Adrift in Macao
Sherie Rene Scott, Landscape of the Body

OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN:
David Korins, Jack Goes Boating
Eugene Lee, The Hairy Ape
Anna Louizos, In the Heights
Derek McLane, The Voysey Inheritance
Allen Moyer, The Busy World is Hushed

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN:
Gregory Gale, The Milliner
Gregory Gale, The Voysey Inheritance
Susan Hilferty, Spring Awakening
Willa Kim, Adrift in Macao
Valerie Marcus Ramshur, Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN:
Kevin Adams, Some Men

Kevin Adams, Spring Awakening
Christopher Akerlind, KAOS
Jeff Croiter, The Internationalist
Japhy Weideman, Jack Goes Boating

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN:
John Collins, Faust
Martin Desjardins, columbinus
Robert Kaplowitz, The Internationalist
Brian Ronan, Spring Awakening
Eric Shim, Essential Self-Defense