| Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Director |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | The Off-Broadway League [1] [2] |
| Currently held by | Igor Golyak, Our Class(2025) |
| Website | lortelaward |
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.
| Year | Director | Production | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | John Tillinger | Love Letters | [4] |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||