2024 Lucille Lortel Awards: Ceremony date, special honors to Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Dominique Morisseau
The Lucille Lortel Awards hold a special place in the New York theater community as the only awards body in the city to exclusively honor Off-Broadway. This year’s ceremony will be held on Sunday, May 5, 2024, at NYU Skirball.
The Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by TDF (the non-profit formerly known as Theatre Development Fund). The ceremony will, as always, be open to the public, with tickets available for purchase beginning April 4.
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The ceremony will recognize productions which opened in the 2023-2024 Off-Broadway season, which runs April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2024. Nominations for the Lortel Awards will be announced on Thursday, April 4, with a special nominees breakfast soon after on April 17.
In addition to these key dates, the Lortel Awards also revealed the 2024 recipients of their three special awards.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Santiago-Hudson is a past Tony winner for his featured role in “Seven Guitars.” He received additional Tony nominations for directing the Broadway revival of “Jitney” and for his solo performance in “Lackawanna Blues” (which he also wrote and directed). The film adaptation of “Lackawanna Blues” earned him nominations from the Emmys, Golden Globes, and WGA. Santiago-Hudson won a Lortel Award in 2013 for directing “The Piano Lesson.”
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Dominique Morisseau will receive a star on the infamous “Playwrights Sidewalk” outside the Lortel Theatre. The writer is a previous Tony nominee for “Ain’t Too Proud” and “Skeleton Key.” The latter play is one part of her celebrated three-play cycle known as “The Detroit Project,” which also includes “Paradise Blue” and “Detroit ‘67.”
Ars Nova will receive the award for Outstanding Body of Work. The Off-Broadway theater company provides a “protective environment where risk-taking and collaboration are paramount.” The New York Times dubbed them a “fertile incubator of offbeat theater.” The Hell’s Kitchen staple has helped launch shows such as “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812,” “KPOP,” “Futurity,” “Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future,” “Freestyle Love Supreme,” and plays home to the infamous monthly variety program “Showgasm.”
The Lucille Lortel Awards were created in 1985 by the Off-Broadway League. They recognize excellence in Off-Broadway by honoring the invaluable contributions of artists to the theatre community. Award categories include Play, Musical, Solo Show, Revival, Alternative Theatrical Experience, Director, Choreographer, Lead Performer in a Play and Musical, Featured Performer in a Play and Musical, Ensemble, Scenic, Costume, Lighting, Sound and Projection Design.
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