Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play was an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor an actress for excellence in a featured role in an Off-Broadway production since 2001. The categories were split into Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical in 2014. The acting categories were made gender-neutral in 2021.
No performer won the award more than twice; however, Liza Colón-Zayas received the most nominations, with three. Several musical performers won or were nominated in this category before it was split into musical/play in 2014. Winners include Anika Noni Rose in 2004 for Caroline, Or Change and Mare Winningham in 2008 for 10 Million Miles. Musical nominees in the category include:
- Randy Graff - 2001 nominee for A Class Act
- Spencer Kayden - 2002 nominee for Urinetown
- Anika Larsen - 2003 nominee for Zanna, Don't!
- Jennifer Simard - 2005 nominee for Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit
- Mary Louise Wilson - 2006 nominee for Grey Gardens
- Nancy Opel - 2010 nominee for The Toxic Avenger
- Rebecca Naomi Jones - 2013 nominee for Death Ballad
Award winners
- Key
2000s
Year |
Actress |
Play |
Role |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
2001 |
Julianna Margulies |
Ten Unknowns |
Julia Bryant |
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Randy Graff |
A Class Act |
Sophie |
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Julia Murney |
Time and Again |
Performer |
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Johanna Day |
Proof |
Claire |
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Ching Valdes-Aran |
Dogeaters |
Leonor Ledesma / Imelda Marcos / Lola Narcisa |
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2002 |
Kathleen Widdoes |
Franny's Way |
Franny / Marjorie |
|
Spencer Kayden |
Urinetown |
Little Sally |
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Gretchen Mol |
The Shape of Things |
Jenny |
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Amy Sedaris |
Wonder of The World |
Various |
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Robin Weigert |
Madame Melville |
Ruth |
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2003 |
Jan Maxwell |
My Old Lady |
Chloe |
|
Anika Larsen |
Zanna, Don't! |
Roberta |
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Nancy Opel |
Polish Joke |
Various |
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Portia |
Our Lady of 121st Street |
Mama Nadi |
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Daphne Rubin-Vega |
Fucking A |
Canary |
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2004 |
Anika Noni Rose |
Caroline, or Change |
Emmie Thibodeaux |
|
Kathryn A. Layng |
The Moonlight Room |
Mrs. Kelley |
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Liza Colón-Zayas |
Living Out |
Zoila Tezo |
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Laila Robins |
Frozen |
Agnetha Gottmundsdottir |
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Margaret Welsh |
Big Bill |
Suzanne Lenglen / Mary Garden |
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2005 (tie) |
Adriane Lenox |
Doubt: A Parable |
Mrs. Muller |
|
Parker Posey |
Hurlyburly |
Darlene |
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Jenn Harris |
Modern Orthodox |
Rachel Feinberger |
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Alison Pill |
On the Mountain |
Jaime |
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Jennifer Simard |
Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit |
Various |
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2006 |
Hallie Foote |
The Trip to Bountiful |
Jessie Mae Watts |
|
Helena Carroll |
Philadelphia, Here I Come! |
Lizzy Sweeney |
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Meghan Andrews |
The Trip to Bountiful |
Thelma |
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Mary Louise Wilson |
Grey Gardens |
Edith Bouvier Beale |
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Lisa Emery |
Abigail's Party |
Susan |
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2007 |
Sherie Rene Scott |
Landscape of the Body |
Rosalie |
|
Anna Camp |
The Scene |
Clea |
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Mamie Gummer |
The Water's Edge |
Erica |
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Michele Ragusa |
Adrift in Macao |
Corinna |
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Nina Hellman |
The Internationalist |
Anonymous Woman / Irene |
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2008 |
Mare Winningham |
10 Million Miles |
The Women |
|
Amy Warren |
Adding Machine |
Daisy Dorothea Devore |
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Zoe Kazan |
100 Saints You Should Know |
Abby |
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Veanne Cox |
Paradise Park |
Nancy |
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Spain |
Diversion |
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2009 |
Kerry Condon |
The Cripple of Inishmaan |
Helen |
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Juliet Rylance |
Othello |
Desdemona |
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Mamie Gummer |
Uncle Vanya |
Sonya |
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Lisa Emery |
Distracted |
Vera |
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Annika Boras |
Chair |
Officer |
2010s
Year |
Actress |
Play |
Role |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 |
Mary Beth Hurt |
When the Rain Stops Falling |
Elizabeth Law, older |
|
Andrea Riseborough |
The Pride |
Sylvia |
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Nancy Opel |
The Toxic Avenger |
Mayor Babs Belgood |
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Laurie Metcalf |
A Lie of the Mind |
Meg |
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Tracee Chimo Pallero |
Circle Mirror Transformation |
Lauren |
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2011 |
Kristen Schaal |
The Coward |
Isabelle |
|
Linda Lavin |
Other Desert Cities |
Silda Grauman |
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Lois Smith |
After the Revolution |
Vera Joseph |
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Laura Heisler |
Kin |
Helena |
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Deirdre O'Connell |
In The Wake |
Judy |
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2012 |
Tonya Pinkins |
Milk Like Sugar |
Myrna |
|
Kimberly Hébert Gregory |
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark |
Carmen Levy-Green / Lottie |
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Mare Winningham |
Tribes |
Beth |
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Anita Gillette |
The Big Meal |
Older Nicole |
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Marin Mazzie |
Carrie |
Margaret White |
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2013 |
Annie Funke |
If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet |
Anna |
|
Da'Vine Joy Randolph |
What Rhymes With America |
Sheryl |
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Rebecca Naomi Jones |
Murder Ballad |
Narrator |
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Amanda Quaid |
Luck of the Irish |
Patty Ann Donovan |
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Eisa Davis |
Lucy Taylor |
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2014 |
Lisa Kron |
Good Person of Szechwan |
Mrs. Mi Tzu / Mrs. Yang |
|
Hannah Bos |
The Open House |
Daughter |
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Lynn Cohen |
I Remember Mama |
Mr. Hyde / Uncle Chris Halvorsen |
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Sarah Stiles |
Hand to God |
Jessica |
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Molly Ranson |
Bad Jews |
Melody |
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2015 |
Liza Colón-Zayas |
Between Riverside and Crazy |
Church Lady |
|
Sophia Anne Caruso |
The Nether |
Iris |
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Beth Dixon |
The City of Conversation |
Jean Swift |
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Sun Mee Chomet |
brownsville song (b-side for tray) |
Merrell |
||
Deirdre O'Connell |
By the Water |
Mary Murphy |
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2016 |
Alana Arenas |
Head of Passes |
Cookie |
|
Lois Smith |
John |
Genevieve Marduk |
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Lauren Klein |
The Humans |
Fiona "Momo" Blake |
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Jeanine Serralles |
Gloria |
Gloria |
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Myra Lucretia Taylor |
Familiar |
Anne |
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2017 |
Randy Graff |
The Babylon Line |
Frieda Cohen |
|
Ari Graynor |
Yen |
Maggie |
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Hannah Cabell |
The Moors |
Marjory |
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Nana Mensah |
Man from Nebraska |
Tamyra |
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Jocelyn Bioh |
Everybody |
Usher / God / Understanding |
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2018 |
Mirirai Sithole |
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play |
Mercy |
|
Quincy Tyler Bernstine |
As You Like It |
Celia |
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Katy Sullivan |
Cost of Living |
Ani |
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Liza Colón-Zayas |
Mary Jane |
Sherrie / Dr. Toro |
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Vanessa Aspillaga |
Amy and the Orphans |
Kathy |
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2019 |
Crystal Lucas-Perry |
Ain't No Mo |
Passenger 5 |
|
Stephanie Berry |
Sugar in Our Wounds |
Aunt Mama |
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Danielle Skraastad |
Hurricane Diane |
Pam Annunziati |
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Blair Brown |
Mary Page Marlowe |
Mary Page Marlowe |
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Quincy Tyler Bernstine |
Our Lady of 121st Street |
Inez |
2020s
Year |
Actress |
Play |
Role |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
2020 |
Michele Pawk |
Heroes of the Fourth Turning |
Gina |
|
Okwui Okpokwasili |
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf |
Lady in Green |
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Alexandria Wailes |
Lady in Purple |
|||
Stephanie Wright Thompson |
Mrs. Murray's Menagerie |
performer |
||
Estelle Parsons |
A Bright Room Called Day |
Die Älte |
Multiple nominations
- 3 nominations
- Liza Colón-Zayas
- 2 nominations
- Randy Graff
- Nancy Opel
- Lisa Emery
- Mamie Gummer
- Mare Winningham
- Veanne Cox
- Lois Smith
- Deirdre O'Connell
- Quincy Tyler Bernstine