The 2014 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were handed out this evening to recipients in 18 categories and 2 special honors were bestowed. The Lortel Awards were distributed in a ceremony at NYU Skirball Center hosted by acclaimed husband and wife actors and comedians, Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman. This year’s event was once again a benefit for The Actors Fund.

Award presenters this year included some of the biggest and brightest stars from stage and screen, including: Uzo Aduba, Joe Carroll, Nick Cordero, Kathryn Erbe, America Ferrera, Shuler Hensley, Adam Jacobs, Nikki M. James, Carly Rae Jepsen, Andy Karl, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Linda Lavin, Tracy Letts, Hamish Linklater, Josh Lucas, Billy Magnussen, Kelli O’Hara, Sophie Okonedo, Laura Osnes, Steven Pasquale, Sarah Paulson, Amanda Peet, Vincent Piazza, Margaret Qualley, Anthony Rapp, Lily Rabe, Courtney Reed, Anika Noni Rose, Morgan Saylor, Brian J. Smith and Corey Stoll.

The Off-Broadway League’s Lortel Awards Producing & Administration Committee (Terry Byrne, Dean Carpenter, Denise Cooper, Margaret Cotter, George Forbes, Michael Page, Catherine Russell and Steven Showalter) produces the Lortel Awards ceremony. Acclaimed writer/director Michael Heitzman returned to direct the Lortel Awards for the fifth consecutive year. The Lucille Lortel Awards is produced by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation. Additional support provided by Theatre Development Fund. Representatives of the Off-Broadway League, Actors’ Equity Association, Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, in addition to theatre journalists and academics and other Off-Broadway professionals, serve on the Voting Committee

Bad Jews

Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company

Written by Joshua Harmon

Domesticated

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater

Written by Bruce Norris

The Night Alive

Produced by Atlantic Theater Company

Originally Produced by the Donmar Warehouse

Written by Conor McPherson

The Open House

Produced by Signature Theatre

Written by Will Eno

Fun Home

Produced by The Public Theater

Music by Jeanine Tesori

Book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron Based on the Alison Bechdel book

Here Lies Love

Produced by The Public Theater Concept and Lyrics by David Byrne

Music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim

Additional Music by Tom Gandy and J Pardo

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

Produced by Howard & Janet Kagan, Paula Marie Black, John Logan, Lisa Matlin, Daveed Frazier, Tom Smedes, Vertical Ent./Roman Gambourg/Lev Gelfer

Written by Dave Malloy

What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined

Produced by New York Theatre Workshop

Music by Burt Bacharach

Lyrics by Hal David and Others Conceived by Kyle Riabko and David Lane Seltzer

Good Person of Szechwan

Produced by The Foundry Theatre

Written by Bertolt Brecht

Translation by John Willett

Hand to God

Produced by MCC Theater

Written by Robert Askins

London Wall, Produced by Mint Theater Company, Written by John van Druten  The Model Apartment, Produced by Primary Stages, Written by Donald Margulies

The Weir

Produced by The Irish Repertory Theatre

Written by Conor McPherson

Buyer & Cellar

Produced by Darren Bagert, Dan Shaheen, Ted Snowdon, Daryl Roth, Martin Massman, Pat Flicker Addiss, Doug Nevin, Joan Raffe & Jhett Tolentino, Andrew Tobias, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Written by Jonathan Tolins Performed by Michael Urie

How I Learned What I Learned

Produced by Signature Theatre

Written by August Wilson

Co-conceived with Todd Kreidler, in collaboration with Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Satchmo at the Waldorf

Produced by Long Wharf Theatre, Shakespeare and Company, Scott and Roxanne Bok, Roz and Jerry Meyer, Ronald Guttman, Shadowcatcher Entertainment, John LaMattina, Joey Parnes, S.D. Wagner, John Johnson

Written by Terry Teachout Performed by John Douglas Thompson

Rachel Chavkin, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

Lear deBessonet, Good Person of Szechwan

Sam Gold, Fun Home

Moritz von Stuelpnagel, Hand to God

Martha Clarke, Chéri

Marguerite Derricks, Heathers: The Musical

Danny Mefford, Fun Home

Annie-B Parson, Here Lies Love

Sonya Tayeh, Kung Fu 

Steven Boyer, Hand to God

Jon DeVries, Regular Singing

Peter Friedman, The Open House

Taylor Mac, Good Person of Szechwan

Armando Riesco, The Happiest Song Plays Last

Tracee Chimo, Bad Jews

Diane Davis, The Model Apartment

Carolyn McCormick, The Open House

Laurie Metcalf, Domesticated

Andrus Nichols, Bedlam’s Hamlet and Saint Joan

Jeff Blumenkrantz, Murder For Two

Jose Llana, Here Lies Love

Kyle Riabko, What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined

Conrad Ricamora, Here Lies Love

Sydney Lucas, Fun Home

Alexandra Socha, Fun Home

Phillipa Soo, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

Barrett Wilbert Weed, Heathers: The Musical

Carson Elrod, The Explorers Club

Philip Ettinger, Bad Jews

Russell G. Jones, The Call

Fred Weller, Reasons to Be Happy

Hannah Bos, The Open House

Lynn Cohen, I Remember Mama

Molly Ranson, Bad Jews

Sarah Stiles, Hand to God

Heath Calvert, Nobody Loves You

Nick Choksi, Bunty Berman Presents…

Blake DeLong, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

Noah Hinsdale, Fun Home

Uzo Aduba, Venice

Brittain Ashford, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

Melody Butiu, Here Lies Love

Shaina Taub, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

Miriam Buether, Love and Information

David Korins, Here Lies Love

Clint Ramos, Appropriate

Matt Saunders, Good Person of Szechwan

Gabriel Berry and Andrea Hood, Love and Information

Anita Yavich, The Explorers Club

Catherine Zuber, Far From Heaven

Daniel Ionazzi, The Jacksonian

Bradley King, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

Ben Stanton, Fun Home

Japhy Weideman, What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined

Clive Goodwin, What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined

Matt Hubbs, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

Ryan Rumery, The Hatmaker’s Wife

Christopher Shutt, Love and Information

Lifetime Achievement
Award Robyn Goodman

Playwrights’ Sidewalk Inductee
Richard Nelson