Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design
Awarded for	Outstanding Costume Design
Location	United States
Presented by	The Off-Broadway League [1] [2]
Currently held by	Oana Botez, Orlando(2025)
Website	lortelaward.com

The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design is an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor excellence in costume design for an Off-Broadway musical or play production since 1995. ^[3]

Jane Greenwood, Paul Tazewell, Catherine Zuber, Clint Ramos and Jessica Jahn are all tied for the most wins in the category, with two each. Catherine Zuber and Anita Yavich lead the most nominations, with six each, followed closely by Susan Hilferty, Toni-Leslie James, Clint Ramos and Dede M. Ayite with fix each.

Winners and nominees

Key

  and bold indicates the winner.

1990s

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
1995
	Judith Dolan	The Petrified Prince	[4]
1996
	Jane Greenwood	Sylvia
1997
	Howard Crabtree	When Pigs Fly
1998
	Paul Tazewell	On the Town	[5] [6]
1999
	Jess Goldstein	The Mineola Twins / Uneasy Chair	[7]

2000s

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
2000
	Martin Pakledinaz	Waste / The Wild Party	[8] [9]
2001
	Jane Greenwood	Old Money	[10] [11]
	Fabio Toblini	Bat Boy: The Musical
	David C. Woolard	The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
	Constance Hoffman	Tiny Alice
	Susan Hilferty	Jitney
2002
	Elizabeth Caitlin Ward	Cymbeline	[12] [13]
	Jonathan Bixby and Gregory Gale	Urinetown
	Mara Blumenfeld	Metamorphoses
	Susan Hilferty and Linda Ross	Franny's Way
	Bob Miller and Steven Howard	Dragapella!
2003
	Michael Bottari and Ronald Case	Shanghai Moon	[14] [15]
	Susan Hilferty	My Life With Albertine
	Paul Tazewell	Boston Marriage
	Catherine Zuber	Far Away
2004
	Catherine Zuber	The Beard of Avon	[16]
	William Ivey Long	Valhalla
	Paul Tazewell	Caroline, or Change
	Kaye Voyce	Johnny Guitar
	Linda Cho	The Two Noble Kinsmen
2005
	Catherine Zuber	Intimate Apparel	[17]
	Anita Yavich	Svejk
	Alvin Colt	Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit
	Kevin Pollard	Shockheaded Peter
2006
	Eric Becker	Abigail's Party	[18] [19]
	Deborah Newhall	The Ruby Sunrise
	Martin Pakledinaz	The Trip to Bountiful
	Anita Yavich	The Wooden Breeks
	William Ivey Long	Grey Gardens
2007
	Gregory Gale	The Voysey Inheritance	[20]
	Valerie Marcus Ramshur	Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen
	Gregory Gale	The Milliner
	Susan Hilferty	Spring Awakening
	Willa Kim	Adrift in Macao
2008
	Michael Bottari, Ronald Case and Jessica Jahn	Die Mommie Die!	[21]
	Mara Blumenfeld	The Glorious Ones
	Tracy Christensen	Seussical
	Kristine Knanishu	The Adding Machine
	Jenny Mannis	The Drunken City
2009
	Marina Draghici	Fela!	[22]
	Ann Hould-Ward	Road Show
	Toni-Leslie James	Wig Out!
	Karen Perry	The First Breeze of Summer
	Theresa Squire	Rafta, Rafta

2010s

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
2010
	Clint Ramos	So Help Me God!	[23] [24]
	Martin Pakledinaz	The Glass Menagerie
	Ilona Somogyi	Clybourne Park
	Anita Yavich	Venus in Fur
	Miranda Hoffman	Stunning
2011
	Gabriel Berry	The Coward	[25]
	David Zinn	Other Desert Cities
	Jen Caprio	In Transit
	Cait O'Connor	The Witch of Edmonton
	Emily Rebholz	This Wide Night
2012
	Emilio Sosa	By the Way, Meet Vera Stark	[26]
	Catherine Zuber	Death Takes a Holiday
	Toni-Leslie James	Milk Like Suga]
	William Ivey Long	The School for Lies
	Ilona Somogyi	Maple and Vine
2013
	Jessica Pabst	The Whale	[27]
	Emily Rebholz	Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
	Toni-Leslie James	A Civil War Christmas
	Clint Ramos	Wild With Happy
	Anita Yavich	Golden Child
2014
	Paloma Young	Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812	[28] [29]
	Clint Ramos	Here Lies Love
	Catherine Zuber	Far From Heaven
	Anita Yavich	The Explorers Club
Gabriel Berry and Andrea Hood	Love and Information
2015
	Paul Tazewell	Hamilton	[30] [31]
	Candice Donnelly	Indian Ink
	Clint Ramos	Bootycandy
	Bretta Gerecke	Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
	Anthony Ward	Josephine and I
2016
	Anita Yavich	The Legend of Georgia McBride	[32] [33]
	Donna Zakowska	Angel Reapers
	Martha Hally	Women Without Men
	Toni-Leslie James	First Daughter Suite
	Clint Ramos	Eclipsed
2017
	Susan Hilferty	Love, Love, Love	[34] [35]
	Tilly Grimes	Underground Railroad Game
	Sarah Laux	The Band's Visit
	Montana Levi Blanco	The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
	Emily Rebholz	Indecent
2018
	Dede M. Ayite	School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play	[36] [37]
	Emily Rebholz	The Low Road
	Dede M. Ayite	Bella: An American Tall Tale
	Tilly Grimes	The Government Inspector
	Tricia Barsamian	KPOP
2019
	Montana Levi Blanco	The House That Will Not Stand	[38] [39]
	Paloma Young	Alice by Heart
	Jennifer Moeller	Mlima's Tale
	Dede M. Ayite	By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Kaye Voyce	Marys Seacole

2010s

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
2020 (Tie)
	Rachel Townsend and Jessica Jahn	The Confession Of Lily Dare	[40] [41]
	Toni-Leslie James	for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
	Oana Botez	In the Green
	Dede M. Ayite	BLKS
Montana Levi Blanco	A Strange Loop
2021	No ceremony held due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2022
	Gregory Gale	Fairycakes	[42] [43]
	Márion Talán de la Rosa	Oratorio for Living Things
	Ari Fulton	[onfederates
	Dominique Fawn Hill	Tambo & Bones
	Catherine Zuber	Intimate Apparel: A New Opera
2023
	Alejo Vietti	Titanique	[44] [45]
	Sarah Laux	Wish You Were Here
	Enver Chakartash	The Trees
	Orla Long	Endgame
	Qween Jean	Soft
2024
	Lux Haac	Manahatta	[46] [47]
	Linda Cho	The Half-God of Rainfall
	Enver Chakartash	Stereophonic
	Dede M. Ayite	Buena Vista Social Club
	DeShon Elem	(pray)
2025
	Oana Botez	Orlando	[48] [49]
	Rodrigo Muñoz	Sally & Tom
	Marco Marco	Drag: The Musical
	Qween Jean	Liberation
	Mariko Ohigashi	Sumo

Multiple wins

2 wins

• Jane Greenwood
• Paul Tazewell
• Catherine Zuber
• Clint Ramos
• Jessica Jahn

Multiple nominations

6 nominations

• Catherine Zuber
• Anita Yavich

5 nominations

• Susan Hilferty
• Toni-Leslie James
• Clint Ramos
• Dede M. Ayite

4 nominations

• Paul Tazewell
• Gregory Gale
• Emily Rebholz

3 nominations

• Martin Pakledinaz
• William Ivey Long
• Montana Levi Blanco

2 nominations

• Jane Greenwood
• Mara Blumenfeld
• Michael Bottari
• Ronald Case
• Kaye Voyce
• Linda Cho
• Jessica Jahn
• Ilona Somogyi
• Gabriel Berry
• Tilly Grimes
• Sarah Laux
• Qween Jean
• Enver Chakartash
• Oana Botez

See also

• Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Costume Design
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design

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