Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreographer

The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreographer is an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor excellence in choreography for an Off-Broadway musical or play production since 2001.

Several choreographers have won the award multiple times, including Christopher Gattelli, Bill T. Jones and Andy Blankenbuehler with three wins each, followed closely by Steven Hoggett and Sonya Tayeh with two wins each. Camille A. Brown has received the most nominations, with five total.

Winners and nominees

Key

2000s

Year	Director	Production
2001
	Christopher Gattelli	*Bat Boy: The Musical*
	Daniel Pelzig	Newyorkers
	AC Ciulla	The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
2002
	John Carrafa	*Urinetown*
	Tony Parise	Pirates of Penzance
	Tony Stevens	The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
2003
	Devanand Janki	*Zanna, Don't!*
	Ken Roberson	Avenue Q
	Ronald K. Brown	Crowns
	Fatima Robinson	Radiant Baby
	Martha Clarke	Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited)
2004
	Hope Clarke	*Caroline, or Change*
	Martín Santangelo	Noche Flamenca
	Daniel Pelzig	Valhalla
2005
	Christopher Gattelli	*Altar Boyz*
	Dan Knechtges	The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
	Barry McNabb	Finian's Rainbow
	Randy Skinner	Lone Star Love
2006
	Bill T. Jones	*The Seven*
	Michael Berresse	title of show
	Graciela Daniele	Bernarda Alba
2007
	Andy Blankenbuehler	*In the Heights*
	Bill T. Jones	Spring Awakening
	Hinton Battle	Evil Dead The Musical
	Devanand Janki	Henry and Mudge
2008
	Peter Pucc	*Queens Boulevard The Musical*
	Lynne Taylor-Corbett	Wanda's World
	Marcia Milgrom Dodge	Seussical
2009
	Bill T. Jones	*Fela!*
	Sergio Trujillo	Saved (musical)
	Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Shonn Wiley	My Vaudeville Man!
	Janet Miller	The Marvelous Wonderettes
	Martha Clarke	Garden of Earthly Delights

2010s

Year	Director	Production
2010
	Susan Stroman	*The Scottsboro Boys*
	Jeffry Denman	Yank! A New Musical
	Ken Roberson	A Boy and His Soul
	Wendy Seyb	Click, Clack, Moo
	Wendy Seyb	The Toxic Avenger
2011
	Steven Hoggett	*Peter and the Starcatcher*
	Gail Pennington Crutchfield	Freckleface Strawberry The Musical
	Annie-B Parson	Orlando
	Danny Mefford	Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
	Tracy Bersley	The Witch of Edmonton
2012
	Steven Hoggett	*Once*
	Annie-B Parson	The Broken Heart
	Christopher Gattelli	Silence! The Musical
	Bill Castellino	Ionescopade
	Chase Brock	The Blue Flower
2013
	Christopher Gattelli	*Dogfight*
	Kyle Mullins	Triassic Parq
	Doug Varone	Murder Ballad
	Alex Sanchez	Giant
	George de la Peña	A Midsummer Night's Dream
2014
	Sonya Tayeh	*Kung Fu*
	Annie-B Parson	Here Lies Love
	Danny Mefford	Fun Home
	Marguerite Derricks	Heathers
	Martha Clarke	Chéri
2015
	Andy Blankenbuehler	*Hamilton*
	Denis Jones	Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story
	Laura Krewski	Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
	Camille A. Brown	The Fortress of Solitude
	Lisa Shriver	Into the Woods
2016
	Martha Clarke	*Angel Reapers*
	David Neumann	Futurity
	Paul McGill	The Legend of Georgia McBride
	Maurice Hines	Maurice Hines Tappin' Thru Life
	Alexandra Beller	Sense and Sensibility
2017
	David Dorfman	*Indecent*
	Georgina Lamb	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Joshua Bergasse	Sweet Charity
	David Neumann	Hadestown
	David Neumann	The Total Bent
2018
	Sonya Tayeh	*The Lucky Ones*
	Camille A. Brown	Bella: An American Tall Tale
	Bill Castellino	Desperate Measures
	Byron Easley	X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation
	Jennifer Weber	KPOP
2019
	Rick Kuperman and Jeffrey Kuperman	*Alice by Heart*
	Lee Sunday Evans	Dance Nation
	Raja Feather Kelly	If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must be a Muhfucka
	Lorin Latarro	Merrily We Roll Along
	Susan Stroman	The Beast in the Jungle

2020s

Year	Director	Production
2020
	Travis Wall	*The Wrong Man*
	Raja Feather Kelly	A Strange Loop
	Sam Pinkleton	Soft Power
	Camille A. Brown	for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
	Camille A. Brown	Toni Stone
2021	No ceremony held due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2022
	Bill T. Jones	*Black No More*
	Raja Feather Kelly	On Sugarland
	Josh Prince	Trevor
	Randy Skinner	Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood
	Danny Mefford	Kimberly Akimbo
2023
	Andy Blankenbuehler	*Only Gold*
	Warren Carlyle	Harmony
	Jerry Mitchell	Kinky Boots
	Ellenore Paige Scott	Titanique
	Edgar Godineaux	The Harder They Come
2024
	Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck	*Buena Vista Social Club*
	Camille A. Brown	Hell's Kitchen
	Graciela Daniele and Alex Sanchez	The Gardens of Anuncia
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	Raja Feather Kelly	Teeth
2025 (tie)
	Connor Gallagher	*The Big Gay Jamboree*

	Lynne Taylor-Corbett	*Distant Thunder*
	Annie Tippe	Three Houses
Spencer Liff	Drag: The Musical
2026
	Edgar Godineaux and Jared Grimes	*Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole*
	Darrell Grand Moultrie	GODDESS
	Darrell Grand Moultrie	Saturday Church
	Tony Thomas	Mexodus
	Rickey Tripp	The Monsters

Multiple wins

3 wins

Christopher Gattelli
Bill T. Jones
Andy Blankenbuehler

2 wins

Steven Hoggett (consecutive)
Sonya Tayeh

Multiple nominations

5 nominations

Camille A. Brown

4 nominations

Christopher Gattelli
Martha Clarke
Bill T. Jones
Raja Feather Kelly

3 nominations

Andy Blankenbuehler
Lynne Taylor-Corbett
Annie-B Parson
David Neumann
Danny Mefford

2 nominations

Daniel Pelzig
Devanand Janki
Ken Roberson
Randy Skinner
Graciela Daniele
Susan Stroman
Wendy Seyb
Steven Hoggett
Bill Castellino
Alex Sanchez
Sonya Tayeh
Darrell Grand Moultrie
Edgar Godineaux

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Label: Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreographer

Description: annual Off-Broadway theatre award

Founded: 2001

Official website: https://lortelaward.com/outstanding-choreographer

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Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreographer

Winners and nominees

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

See also

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreographer

Winners and nominees

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

See also

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