2018 - 68th ANNUAL OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINATIONS AND WINNERS
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY
Children
Farinelli and the King
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child WINNER
Junk
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL
Escape to Margaritaville
Frozen
Mean Girls
Prince of Broadway
SpongeBob SquarePants WINNER
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
Admissions WINNER
Cost of Living
Hangmen
The Low Road
Mlima’s Tale
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
Cruel Intentions
Desperate Measures WINNER
Jerry Springer- The Opera
Miss You Like Hell
Woody Sez
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Tina Fey - Mean Girls WINNER
Quiara Alegría Hudes - Miss You Like Hell
Kyle Jarrow - SpongeBob SquarePants
Peter Kellogg - Desperate Measures
OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Jonathan Coulton, David Bowie and Brian Eno, Plain White T’s, T.I., Domani Harris, and Darwin Quinn, Brendon Urie of Panic! At the Disco, Alexander Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman, Yolanda Adams, The Flaming Lips, Sara Bareilles, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Lady Antebellum, John Legend, They Might Be Giants, Andy Paley and Tom Kenny, Derek Drymon, Mark Harrison, Stephen Hillenburg, and Blaise Smith, and Tom Kitt – SpongeBob SquarePants WINNER
David Friedman & Peter Kellogg - Desperate Measures
Imogen Heap - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Erin McKeown & Quiara Alegría Hudes - Miss You Like Hell
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez - Frozen
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Angels in America WINNER
Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train
Lobby Hero
Three Tall Women
Travesties
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Carousel
My Fair Lady WINNER
Once on This Island
Pacific Overtures
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Jo Bonney - Cost of Living
Marianne Elliott - Angels in America
Patrick Marber - Travesties
Joe Mantello - Three Tall Women
John Tiffany - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child WINNER
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Michael Arden - Once on This Island
Bill Castellino - Desperate Measures
Tina Landau - SpongeBob SquarePants (tie) WINNER
Casey Nicholaw - Mean Girls
Bartlett Sher - My Fair Lady (tie)
WINNER
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
Camille A. Brown - Once on This Island
Christopher Gattelli - My Fair Lady
Christopher Gattelli - SpongeBob SquarePants
Steven Hoggett - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Justin Peck - Carousel WINNER
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN (Play or Musical)
Miriam Buether - Three Tall Women
Myung Hee Cho - In the Body of the World
Christine Jones - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child WINNER
Michael Yeargan - My Fair Lady
David Zinn - SpongeBob SquarePants
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN (Play or Musical)
Katrina Lindsay - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Clint Ramos - Once on This Island
Paloma Young - Time and the Conways
David Zinn - SpongeBob SquarePants
Catherine Zuber - My Fair Lady WINNER
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN (Play or Musical)
Kevin Adams - SpongeBob SquarePants
Neil Austin - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child WINNER
Paule Constable - Angels in America
Paul Russell - Farinelli and the King
Lap Chi Chu - Mlima’s Tale
OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN (Play or Musical)
Tim Reid - 1984
Finn Ross - Frozen
Finn Ross - In the Body of the World
Finn Ross & Adam Young - Mean Girls
Finn Ross & Ash Woodward - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
WINNER
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN (Play or Musical)
Gareth Fry - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child WINNER
Kate Marvin - [Porto]
Fitz Patton - Napoli, Brooklyn
Marc Salzberg - My Fair Lady
Darron L. West - Mlima’s Tale
OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS
Jason Robert Brown, Charlie Rosen, Larry Blank, & Sam Davis - Prince of Broadway
Tom Kitt - SpongeBob SquarePants
AnnMarie Milazzo & Michael Starobin - Once on This Island
Jonathan Tunick - Carousel WINNER
Claire van Kampen - Farinelli and the King
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Sean Carvajal - Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train
Andrew Garfield - Angels in America WINNER
Tom Hollander - Travesties
Gregg Mozgala - Cost of Living
Michael Urie - The Government Inspector
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
MaameYaa Boafo - School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play
Jessica Hecht - Admissions
Glenda Jackson - Three Tall Women WINNER
Lauren Ridloff - Children of a Lesser God
Katy Sullivan - Cost of Living
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Harry Hadden-Paton - My Fair Lady
Joshua Henry - Carousel
David M. Lutken - Woody Sez
Conor Ryan - Desperate Measures
Ethan Slater - SpongeBob SquarePants WINNER
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Lauren Ambrose - My Fair Lady WINNER
Erika Henningsen - Mean Girls
Hailey Kilgore - Once On This Island
Taylor Louderman - Mean Girls
Patti Murin - Frozen
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Anthony Boyle - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Johnny Flynn - Hangmen
Nathan Lane - Angels in America WINNER
David Morse - The Iceman Cometh
Paul Sparks - At Home at the Zoo
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Jamie Brewer - Amy and the Orphans
Denise Gough - Angels in America
Harriet Harris - The Low Road
Laurie Metcalf - Three Tall Women WINNER
Mary Testa - The Government Inspector
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Norbert Leo Butz - My Fair Lady WINNER
Alexander Gemignani - Carousel
Gavin Lee - SpongeBob SquarePants
Nick Wyman - Desperate Measures
Tony Yazbeck - Prince of Broadway
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Kerry Butler - Mean Girls
Lindsay Mendez - Carousel WINNER
Lauren Molina -Desperate Measures
Ashley Park - Mean Girls
Emily Skinner - Prince of Broadway
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Billy Crudup - Harry Clarke WINNER
Eve Ensler - In the Body of the World
Alison Fraser - Squeamish
John Lithgow - Stories By Heart
Sharon Washington - Feeding the Dragon
JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Kate Benson - [Porto]
Jocelyn Bioh -School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play WINNER
Lindsey Ferrentino - Amy and the Orphans
Meghan Kennedy - Napoli, Brooklyn
Dominique Morisseau Pipeline
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