Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Awarded for	Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Location	United States
Presented by	The Off-Broadway League [1] [2]
Status	Retired
Currently held by	Kuhoo Verma for Octet (2020)
Website	lortelaward.com

The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical was an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor an actress for excellence in a featured role in an Off-Broadway musical production. This category was added in 2014, as the awards were split into Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, before being retired in favor of gender-neutral categories in 2021. ^{[3] [4]}

Luba Mason and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer are the only performers nominated multiple times in this category, with two nominations each (and Kritzer winning once).

Several musical performers won or received nominations for the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress before it was split in 2014. Musical winners in the former category include:

• Anika Noni Rose - 2004 winner for Caroline, Or Change
• Mare Winningham - 2008 winner for 10 Million Miles

Nominees in the former category include:

• Randy Graff - 2001 nominee for A Class Act
• Spencer Kayden - 2002 nominee for Urinetown
• Anika Larsen - 2003 nominee for Zanna, Don't!
• Jennifer Simard - 2005 nominee for Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit
• Mary Louise Wilson - 2006 nominee for Grey Gardens
• Nancy Opel - 2010 nominee for The Toxic Avenger
• Rebecca Naomi Jones - 2013 nominee for Death Ballad

Award winners

Key

  and bold indicates the winner.

2010s

Year	Actress	Play	Role	Ref.
2014	Judy Kuhn	Fun Home	Helen Bechdel	[5] [6]
	Uzo Aduba	Venice - A New Musical	Anna Monroe
	Melody Butiu	Here Lies Love	Estrella / Ensemble
	Brittain Ashford	Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812	Sonya Rostova
	Shaina Taub		Princess Mary / Maid Servant / Opera Singer / Accordion / Glockenspiel
2015	Renée Elise Goldsberry	Hamilton	Angelica Schuyler	[7] [8]
	Emily Young	Into the Woods	Little Red Riding Hood / Rapunzel
	Jessica Tyler Wright	Allegro	Marjorie Taylor
	Lulu Picart	Disenchanted!	Hua Mulan / Pocahontas / Princess Badroulbadour
	Luba Mason	Pretty Filthy	Georgina Congress
2016	Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer	The Robber Bridegroom	Salome	[9] [10]
	Karen Kandel	Futurity	The General
	Annie McNamara	Iowa	Cheerleader / Sister Wife
	Eisa Davis	Preludes	Dahl
	Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer	Gigantic	Sandy
2017	Rachel Bay Jones	Dear Evan Hansen	Heidi Hansen	[11] [12]
	Asmeret Ghebremichael	Sweet Charity	Nickie
	Karen Ziemba	Kid Victory	Eileen
	Betsy Morgan	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Beggar Woman / Adolfo Pirelli
	Emily Rohm	Ride the Cyclone	Jane Doe
2018	Tiffany Mann	Jerry Springer: The Opera	Shawntell	[13] [14]
	Vanessa Kai	KPOP	Ruby
	Maryann Plunkett	The Lucky Ones	Mary
	Myra Lucretia Taylor		Sherrill
	Adina Verson		Emma
2019	Soara-Joye Ross	Carmen Jones	Frankie	[15] [16]
	Alysha Umphress	Smokey Joe's Cafe	Performer
	Jackie Hoffman	Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish	Yente
	Stephanie Hsu	Be More Chill	Christine
	Luba Mason	Girl from the North Country	Mrs. Burke

2020s

Year	Actress	Play	Role	Ref.
2020	Kuhoo Verma	Octet	Velma	[17] [18]
	Ashley Pérez Flanagan	In the Green	Marie/Hildegard's Mother/Marchioness/Hildegard
	Ciara Renée	The Wrong Man	Mariana
	L Morgan Lee	A Strange Loop	Thought 1
	Ariana Groover	Little Shop of Horrors	Ronnette

Multiple nominations

2 nominations

• Luba Mason
• Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer

References

1. "The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers".
2. The Off-Broadway League
3. Actoing Categories Split into Musicals and Plays
4. "Lucille Lortel Awards Will Switch to Gender-Neutral Categories for Performers". Playbill.
5. "2014 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
6. Gans, Andrew (5 May 2014). "Fun Home, Here Lies Love, Buyer & Cellar Win Lortel Awards". Playbill. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
7. "2015 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
8. Moreau, Jordan (10 May 2015). "Lucille Lortel Awards 2015 (FULL LIST): 'Hamilton' Sweeps". Variety. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
9. "2016 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
10. Moreau, Jordan (1 May 2016). "Lucille Lortel Awards 2016 (FULL LIST): 'Guards at the Taj,' 'The Robber Bridegroom' Score Big". Variety. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
11. "2017 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
12. McPhee, Ryan (8 May 2017). "Ben Platt, Taran Killam, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and More at the 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards". Playbill. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
13. "2018 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
14. McPhee, Ryan (6 May 2018). "KPOP, Cost of Living, School Girls Among 2018 Lucille Lortel Award Winners". Playbill. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
15. "2019 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
16. Peikert, Mark (5 May 2019). "Carmen Jones Leads 2019 Lortel Award Winners". Playbill. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
17. "2020 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
18. Clement, Olivia (3 May 2020). "Octet and Heroes of the Fourth Turning Lead 2020 Lucille Lortel Award Winners". Playbill. Retrieved 17 September 2025.