Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical

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Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical
Awarded forOutstanding Lead Actor in a Musical
LocationUnited States
Presented byThe Off-Broadway League[1][2]
StatusRetired
Currently held byLarry Owens for A Strange Loop (2020)
Websitelortelaward.com

The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical was an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor an actor for excellence in a leading role in an Off-Broadway musical production. The categories for lead performance were split into Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical in 2014, before being retired in favor of gender-neutral categories in 2021.[3][4]

Before the categories were split, several musical performers won or received nominations for the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor. Winners include Boyd Gaines (2000 for Contact) and Joel Hatch (2008 for The Adding Machine), and nominees include Deven May (2001 for Bat Boy: The Musical), Norbert Leo Butz (2002 for The Last Five Years), Hunter Foster (also 2002 for Urinetown) and Josh Grisetti and Sahr Ngaujah (both 2009 for Enter Laughing The Musical and Fela! respectively).

Conrad Ricamora was the only performer to receive multiple nominations in the category, nominated for both Here Lies Love in 2014 and Soft Power in 2020.

Award winners

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Key
  and bold indicates the winner.

2010s

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Year Actress Play Role Ref.
2014 Michael Cerveris Fun Home Bruce Bechdel [5]
Kyle Riabko What's it All About? Bacharach Reimagined Performer
Jeff Blumenkrantz Murder For Two All Suspects
Jose Llana Here Lies Love President Ferdinand Marcos
Conrad Ricamora Ninoy Aquino
2015 Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton Alexander Hamilton [6]
Claybourne Elder Allegro Joe Taylor, Jr.
Leslie Odom, Jr. Hamilton Aaron Burr
Ben Steinfeld Into the Woods Baker
Adam Chanler-Berat The Fortress of Solitude Dylan Ebdus
2016 Steven Pasquale The Robber Bridegroom Jamie Lockhart [7]
Maurice Hines Maurice Hines Tappin' Thru Life Himself
Gabriel Ebert Preludes Rach
Michael C. Hall Lazarus Thomas Newton
Michael Luwoye Invisible Thread Jacob
2017 Ben Platt Dear Evan Hansen Evan Hansen [8]
Patrick Page Hadestown Hades
Jeremy Secomb Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sweeney Todd
Ato Blankson-Wood The Total Bent Marty Roy
Shuler Hensley Sweet Charity Oscar Lindquist
2018 Damon Daunno The Lucky Ones Kai [9]
Terrence Mann Jerry Springer: The Opera Jerry Springer
Wade McCollum Ernest Shackleton Loves Me Ernest Shackleton
James Seol KPOP Jerry
Steven Eng Pacific Overtures Kayama Yesaemon
2019 Steven Skybell Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish Tevye [10]
Clifton Alphonzo Duncan Carmen Jones Joe
Andrew Butler Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future Rags Parkland
Sam Bolen Midnight at the Never Get Performer
Jeremy Cohen

2020s

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Year Actress Play Role Ref.
2020 Larry Owens A Strange Loop Usher [11]
Conrad Ricamora Soft Power Xuē Xíng
Joshua Henry The Wrong Man Duran
Jonathan Groff Little Shop of Horrors Seymour Krelborn
Francis Jue Soft Power DHH

Multiple nominations

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2 nominations

References

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  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. ^ "2015 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  7. ^ "2016 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  8. ^ "2017 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  9. ^ "2018 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  10. ^ "2019 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  11. ^ "2020 Recipients". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2025.