Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Projection Design

Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Projection Design
Awarded for	Outstanding Projection Design
Location	New York City
Presented by	Outer Critics Circle
Currently held by	Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom, Sunset Boulevard (2025)
Website	OuterCriticsCircle.org

The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Projection Design is an honor presented at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, a ceremony established in 1950 for excellence in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, to projection designers of any production. The category was added to the ceremony in 2016. ^[1]

Award winners and nominees

Key

  and bold indicates the winner.

2010s

Year	Name	Work	Ref.
2016
	Finn Ross	American Psycho
	Tal Yarden	Lazarus
	Lucy Mackinnon	Spring Awakening
	Peter Nigrini	Grounded
		Dear Evan Hansen
2017
	Aaron Rhyne	Anastasia
	Jared Mezzocchi	Vietgone
	Benjamin Pearcy	Oslo
	Duncan McLean	Privacy
	Tal Yarden	Indecent
2018
	Finn Ross and Ash J Woodward	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
	Finn Ross	Frozen the Musical
		In the Body of the World
	Tim Reid	1984
	Finn Ross and Adam Young	Mean Girls
2019
	Peter England	King Kong
	Tal Yarden	Network
	Jeff Sugg	All My Sons
	Peter Nigrini	Beetlejuice
	Alex Basco Koch	Be More Chill

2020s

Year	Name	Work	Ref.
2020 (Honorees)	Luke Halls	West Side Story
	Luke Halls	West Side Story
	Brad Peterson	Broadway Bounty Hunter
	Lisa Renkel and Possible Productions	Emojiland
	Aaron Rhyne	The Sound Inside
	Hannah Wasileski	Fires in the Mirror
2021	No award given due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2022
	Luke Halls	The Lehman Trilogy
	Stefania Bulbarella and Alex Basco Koch	Space Dogs
	Benjamin Pearcy and 59 Productions	Flying Over Sunset
	Shawn Duan	Letters of Suresh
	Jeff Sugg	Mr. Saturday Night
2023
	Andrzej Goulding	Life of Pi	[2]
	Christopher Ash and Beowulf Boritt	New York, New York
	Lucy Mackinnon	A Christmas Carol
	Isaac Madge	Leopoldstadt
	Sven Ortel	Parade
2024
	Peter Nigrini	The Who's Tommy	[3]
	Finn Ross	Back to the Future
	Paul Tate dePoo III	The Great Gatsby
	David Bengali	Water for Elephants
	Ash J Woodward	Patriots
2025
	David Bergman	The Picture of Dorian Gray	[4] [5]
	Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom	Sunset Boulevard
	Finn Ross	Boop! The Musical
	David Bergman	The Picture of Dorian Gray
	Hana Sooyeon Kim	Redwood

Statistics

Multiple wins

2 wins

• Finn Ross

Multiple nominations

7 nominations

• Finn Ross

4 nominations

• Peter Nigrini

3 nominations

• Tal Yarden

2 nominations

• Lucy Mackinnon
• Aaron Rhyne
• Benjamin Pearcy
• Ash J Woodward
• Jeff Sugg
• Alex Basco Koch
• Luke Halls

References

1. Robert Viagas (May 9, 2016). "Bright Star and The Humans Win Top 2016 NY Outer Critics Circle Awards". Playbill.
2. Culwell-Block, Logan (May 16, 2023). "Some Like It Hot Dominates 2023 Outer Critics Circle Awards; See the Full List of Winners". Playbill. Retrieved September 1, 2025.
3. "Stereophonic Leads 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards, Wins Best Play; See the Full List of Winners". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2025-08-19. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
4. Culwell-Block, Logan (May 12, 2025). "Maybe Happy Ending Leads 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards; See the Full List of Winners". Playbill. Retrieved September 1, 2025.
5. Evans, Greg (2025-04-25). "'Death Becomes Her' Broadway Musical Leads Outer Critics Circle Award Nominees – Complete List". Deadline. Retrieved 2025-09-01.