Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design

The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design is an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor excellence in costume design for an Off-Broadway musical or play production since 1995.

Jane Greenwood, Paul Tazewell, Catherine Zuber, Clint Ramos and Jessica Jahn are all tied for the most wins in the category, with two each. Catherine Zuber and Anita Yavich lead the most nominations, with six each, followed closely by Susan Hilferty, Toni-Leslie James, Clint Ramos and Dede M. Ayite with five each.

Winners and nominees

Key

1990s

Year	Designer	Production
1995
1995	Judith Dolan	*The Petrified Prince*
1996
1996	Jane Greenwood	*Sylvia*
1997
1997	Howard Crabtree	*When Pigs Fly*
1998
1998	Paul Tazewell	*On the Town*
1999
1999	Jess Goldstein	The Mineola Twins'' /Uneasy Chair''

2000s

Year	Designer	Production
2000
2000	Martin Pakledinaz	Waste'' /The Wild Party''
2001
	Jane Greenwood	*Old Money*
	Fabio Toblini	Bat Boy: The Musical
	David C. Woolard	The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
	Constance Hoffman	Tiny Alice
	Susan Hilferty	Jitney
2002
	Elizabeth Caitlin Ward	*Cymbeline*
	Jonathan Bixby and Gregory Gale	Urinetown
	Mara Blumenfeld	Metamorphoses
	Susan Hilferty and Linda Ross	Franny's Way
	Bob Miller and Steven Howard	Dragapella!
2003
	Michael Bottari and Ronald Case	*Shanghai Moon*
	Susan Hilferty	My Life With Albertine
	Paul Tazewell	Boston Marriage
	Catherine Zuber	Far Away
2004
	Catherine Zuber	*The Beard of Avon*
	William Ivey Long	Valhalla
	Paul Tazewell	Caroline, or Change
	Kaye Voyce	Johnny Guitar
	Linda Cho	The Two Noble Kinsmen
2005
	Catherine Zuber	*Intimate Apparel*
	Anita Yavich	Svejk
	Alvin Colt	Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit
	Kevin Pollard	Shockheaded Peter
2006
	Eric Becker	*Abigail's Party*
	Deborah Newhall	The Ruby Sunrise
	Martin Pakledinaz	The Trip to Bountiful
	Anita Yavich	The Wooden Breeks
	William Ivey Long	Grey Gardens
2007
	Gregory Gale	*The Voysey Inheritance*
	Valerie Marcus Ramshur	Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen
	Gregory Gale	The Milliner
	Susan Hilferty	Spring Awakening
	Willa Kim	Adrift in Macao
2008
	Michael Bottari, Ronald Case and Jessica Jahn	*Die Mommie Die!*
	Mara Blumenfeld	The Glorious Ones
	Tracy Christensen	Seussical
	Kristine Knanishu	The Adding Machine
	Jenny Mannis	The Drunken City
2009
	Marina Draghici	*Fela!*
	Ann Hould-Ward	Road Show
	Toni-Leslie James	Wig Out!
	Karen Perry	The First Breeze of Summer
	Theresa Squire	Rafta, Rafta

2010s

Year	Designer	Production
2010
	Clint Ramos	*So Help Me God!*
	Martin Pakledinaz	The Glass Menagerie
	Ilona Somogyi	Clybourne Park
	Anita Yavich	Venus in Fur
	Miranda Hoffman	Stunning
2011
	Gabriel Berry	*The Coward*
	David Zinn	Other Desert Cities
	Jen Caprio	In Transit
	Cait O'Connor	The Witch of Edmonton
	Emily Rebholz	This Wide Night
2012
	Emilio Sosa	*By the Way, Meet Vera Stark*
	Catherine Zuber	Death Takes a Holiday
	Toni-Leslie James	Milk Like Suga]
	William Ivey Long	The School for Lies
	Ilona Somogyi	Maple and Vine
2013
	Jessica Pabst	*The Whale*
	Emily Rebholz	Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
	Toni-Leslie James	A Civil War Christmas
	Clint Ramos	Wild With Happy
	Anita Yavich	Golden Child
2014
	Paloma Young	*Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812*

	Clint Ramos	*Here Lies Love*
	Catherine Zuber	Far From Heaven
	Anita Yavich	The Explorers Club
Gabriel Berry and Andrea Hood	Love and Information
2015
	Paul Tazewell	*Hamilton*
	Candice Donnelly	Indian Ink
	Clint Ramos	Bootycandy
	Bretta Gerecke	Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
	Anthony Ward	Josephine and I
2016
	Anita Yavich	*The Legend of Georgia McBride*
	Donna Zakowska	Angel Reapers
	Martha Hally	Women Without Men
	Toni-Leslie James	First Daughter Suite
	Clint Ramos	Eclipsed
2017
	Susan Hilferty	*Love, Love, Love*
	Tilly Grimes	Underground Railroad Game
	Sarah Laux	The Band's Visit
	Montana Levi Blanco	The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
	Emily Rebholz	Indecent
2018
	Dede M. Ayite	*School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play*
	Emily Rebholz	The Low Road
	Dede M. Ayite	Bella: An American Tall Tale
	Tilly Grimes	The Government Inspector
	Tricia Barsamian	KPOP
2019
	Montana Levi Blanco	*The House That Will Not Stand*

	Paloma Young	*Alice by Heart*
	Jennifer Moeller	Mlima's Tale
	Dede M. Ayite	By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Kaye Voyce	Marys Seacole

2020s

Year	Designer	Production
2020 (Tie)
	Rachel Townsend and Jessica Jahn	*The Confession Of Lily Dare*

	Toni-Leslie James	*for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf*
	Oana Botez	In the Green
	Dede M. Ayite	BLKS
Montana Levi Blanco	A Strange Loop
2021	No ceremony held due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2022
	Gregory Gale	*Fairycakes*
	Márion Talán de la Rosa	Oratorio for Living Things
	Ari Fulton	[onfederates
	Dominique Fawn Hill	Tambo & Bones
	Catherine Zuber	Intimate Apparel: A New Opera
2023
	Alejo Vietti	*Titanique*
	Sarah Laux	Wish You Were Here
	Enver Chakartash	The Trees
	Orla Long	Endgame
	Qween Jean	Soft
2024
	Lux Haac	*Manahatta*
	Linda Cho	The Half-God of Rainfall
	Enver Chakartash	Stereophonic
	Dede M. Ayite	Buena Vista Social Club
	DeShon Elem	(pray)
2025
	Oana Botez	*Orlando*
	Rodrigo Muñoz	Sally & Tom
	Marco Marco	Drag: The Musical
	Qween Jean	Liberation
	Mariko Ohigashi	Sumo
2026
	Qween Jean	*Saturday Church*
	Montana Levi Blanco	Prince Faggot
	Enver Chakartash	Tartuffe
	Celeste Jennings	minor.ity
	Kaye Voyce	The Seat of Our Pants

Multiple wins

2 wins

Jane Greenwood
Paul Tazewell
Catherine Zuber
Clint Ramos
Jessica Jahn

Multiple nominations

6 nominations

Catherine Zuber
Anita Yavich

5 nominations

Susan Hilferty
Toni-Leslie James
Clint Ramos
Dede M. Ayite

4 nominations

Paul Tazewell
Gregory Gale
Emily Rebholz
Montana Levi Blanco

3 nominations

Martin Pakledinaz
William Ivey Long
Qween Jean
Kaye Voyce

2 nominations

Jane Greenwood
Mara Blumenfeld
Michael Bottari
Ronald Case
Linda Cho
Jessica Jahn
Ilona Somogyi
Gabriel Berry
Tilly Grimes
Sarah Laux
Enver Chakartash
Oana Botez

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Label: Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design

Description: annual Off-Broadway theatre award

Founded: 1995

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Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design

Winners and nominees

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

See also

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design

Winners and nominees

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

See also

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