Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical
Awarded for	Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical
Location	United States
Presented by	The Off-Broadway League [1] [2]
Currently held by	Paris Nix, The Big Gay Jamboree (2025)
Website	lortelaward.com

The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play is an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor a performer for excellence in a leading role in an Off-Broadway play production since 2022, ^[3] when the acting categories were made gender-neutral. ^[4]

Jacob Ming-Trent is the only performer to be nominated more than once, with two nominations.

Winners and nominees

Key

  and bold indicates the winner.

2020s

Year	Actress	Play	Character	Ref.
2022	Bonnie Milligan	Kimberly Akimbo	Debra	[5] [6]
	Steven Boyer	Kimberly Akimbo	Buddy
	Lillias White	Black No More	Performer
	Will Swenson	Assassins	Charles Guiteau
	Ethan Slater		The Balladeer / Lee Harvey Oswald
2023	A.J. Shively	A Man of No Importance	Robbie Fay	[7] [8]
	Jacob Ming-Trent	The Harder They Come	Pedro
	John Riddle	Titanique	Cal
	Nikki M. James	Suffs	Ida B. Wells
	Darren Goldstein	The Bedwetter	Donald
	Krystal Joy Brown	Merrily We Roll Along	Gussie Carnegie
	Reg Rogers		Joe
2024	Kecia Lewis	Hell's Kitchen	Miss Liza Jane	[9] [10]
	Rodrick Covington	Rock & Roll Man	Little Richard
	Thom Sesma	Dead Outlaw	Thomas Noguchi
	Mel Semé	Buena Vista Social Club	Ibrahim
	Steven Pasquale	Teeth	Pastor Bill O'Keefe
	Jessica Molaskey	The Connector	Muriel
	Shoshana Bean	Hell's Kitchen	Jersey
2025	Paris Nix	The Big Gay Jamboree	Clarence	[11] [12]
	Natalie Walker	The Big Gay Jamboree	Flora
	Helen J. Shen	The Lonely Few	JJ
	Jacob Ming-Trent	Medea: Re-Versed	Creon
	Eddie Korbich	Drag: The Musical	Drunk Jerry
	Jujubee		The Tigress

Multiple nominations

• Jacob Ming-Trent

See also

• Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical

References

1. The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers
2. The Off-Broadway League
3. Acting Categories Split into Musicals and Plays
4. "Lucille Lortel Awards Will Switch to Gender-Neutral Categories for Performers". Playbill.
5. "2022 Nominees: Lucille Lortel Awards". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
6. Culwell-Block, Logan (1 May 2022). "Kimberly Akimbo, Oratorio for Living Things Win 2022 Lucille Lortel Awards; See the Full Winners List". Playbill. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
7. "2023 Nominees: Lucille Lortel Awards". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
8. Logan Culwell-Block (May 7, 2023). "Wolf Play, Titaníque Lead 2023 Lucille Lortel Awards; See the Full List of Winners". Playbill. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
9. "2024 Nominees: Lucille Lortel Awards". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
10. Culwell-Block, Logan (May 5, 2024). "Ars Nova and National Black Theatre's (Pray) Leads 2024 Lucille Lortel Awards; Read the Full List of Winners". Playbill. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
11. "2025 Nominees: Lucille Lortel Awards". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
12. Culwell-Block, Logan (4 May 2025). "Our Class Leads 2025 Lucille Lortel Award Wins; Read the Complete List Here". Playbill. Retrieved 17 September 2025.