| Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | The Off-Broadway League [1] [2] |
| Status | Retired |
| Currently held by | Michele Pawk for Heroes of the Fourth Turning (2020) |
| Website | lortelaward |
The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play was an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor an actress for excellence in a featured role in an Off-Broadway production since 2001. The categories were split into Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical in 2014. [3] The acting categories were made gender-neutral in 2021. [4]
No performer won the award more than twice; however, Liza Colón-Zayas received the most nominations, with three. Several musical performers won or were nominated in this category before it was split into musical/play in 2014. Winners include Anika Noni Rose in 2004 for Caroline, Or Change and Mare Winningham in 2008 for 10 Million Miles. Musical nominees in the category include:
| Year | Actress | Play | Role | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Mary Beth Hurt | When the Rain Stops Falling | Elizabeth Law, older | [14] |
| Andrea Riseborough | The Pride | Sylvia | ||
| Nancy Opel | The Toxic Avenger | Mayor Babs Belgood | ||
| Laurie Metcalf | A Lie of the Mind | Meg | ||
| Tracee Chimo Pallero | Circle Mirror Transformation | Lauren | ||
| 2011 | Kristen Schaal | The Coward | Isabelle | [15] |
| Linda Lavin | Other Desert Cities | Silda Grauman | ||
| Lois Smith | After the Revolution | Vera Joseph | ||
| Laura Heisler | Kin | Helena | ||
| Deirdre O'Connell | In The Wake | Judy | ||
| 2012 | Tonya Pinkins | Milk Like Sugar | Myrna | [16] |
| Kimberly Hébert Gregory | By the Way, Meet Vera Stark | Carmen Levy-Green / Lottie | ||
| Mare Winningham | Tribes | Beth | ||
| Anita Gillette | The Big Meal | Older Nicole | ||
| Marin Mazzie | Carrie | Margaret White | ||
| 2013 | Annie Funke | If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet | Anna | [17] |
| Da'Vine Joy Randolph | What Rhymes With America | Sheryl | ||
| Rebecca Naomi Jones | Murder Ballad | Narrator | ||
| Amanda Quaid | Luck of the Irish | Patty Ann Donovan | ||
| Eisa Davis | Lucy Taylor | |||
| 2014 | Lisa Kron | Good Person of Szechwan | Mrs. Mi Tzu / Mrs. Yang | [18] |
| Hannah Bos | The Open House | Daughter | ||
| Lynn Cohen | I Remember Mama | Mr. Hyde / Uncle Chris Halvorsen | ||
| Sarah Stiles | Hand to God | Jessica | ||
| Molly Ranson | Bad Jews | Melody | ||
| 2015 | Liza Colón-Zayas | Between Riverside and Crazy | Church Lady | [19] |
| Sophia Anne Caruso | The Nether | Iris | ||
| Beth Dixon | The City of Conversation | Jean Swift | ||
| Sun Mee Chomet | brownsville song (b-side for tray) | Merrell | ||
| Deirdre O'Connell | By the Water | Mary Murphy | ||
| 2016 | Alana Arenas | Head of Passes | Cookie | [20] |
| Lois Smith | John | Genevieve Marduk | ||
| Lauren Klein | The Humans | Fiona "Momo" Blake | ||
| Jeanine Serralles | Gloria | Gloria | ||
| Myra Lucretia Taylor | Familiar | Anne | ||
| 2017 | Randy Graff | The Babylon Line | Frieda Cohen | [21] |
| Ari Graynor | Yen | Maggie | ||
| Hannah Cabell | The Moors | Marjory | ||
| Nana Mensah | Man from Nebraska | Tamyra | ||
| Jocelyn Bioh | Everybody | Usher / God / Understanding | ||
| 2018 | Mirirai Sithole | School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play | Mercy | [22] |
| Quincy Tyler Bernstine | As You Like It | Celia | ||
| Katy Sullivan | Cost of Living | Ani | ||
| Liza Colón-Zayas | Mary Jane | Sherrie / Dr. Toro | ||
| Vanessa Aspillaga | Amy and the Orphans | Kathy | ||
| 2019 | Crystal Lucas-Perry | Ain't No Mo | Passenger 5 | [23] |
| Stephanie Berry | Sugar in Our Wounds | Aunt Mama | ||
| Danielle Skraastad | Hurricane Diane | Pam Annunziati | ||
| Blair Brown | Mary Page Marlowe | Mary Page Marlowe | ||
| Quincy Tyler Bernstine | Our Lady of 121st Street | Inez |
| Year | Actress | Play | Role | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Michele Pawk | Heroes of the Fourth Turning | Gina | [24] |
| Okwui Okpokwasili | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf | Lady in Green | ||
| Alexandria Wailes | Lady in Purple | |||
| Stephanie Wright Thompson | Mrs. Murray's Menagerie | performer | ||
| Estelle Parsons | A Bright Room Called Day | Die Älte |