2022 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINATIONS AND WINNERS
COMMEMORATING THE 2021-22 BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY SEASON
Returning to an in-person ceremony this spring after the 2020 virtual honors, the Outer Critics Circle Award winners will be announced on Monday, May 16, with a ceremony honoring the award recipients on Thursday, May 26 at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
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THE 2021-2022 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD NOMINATIONS AND WINNERS
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL
MJ the Musical
Mr. Saturday Night
Mrs. Doubtfire
Paradise Square
Six WINNER
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY
Birthday Candles
Clyde's
Skeleton Crew
The Lehman Trilogy WINNER
The Minutes
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
Black No More
Harmony
Intimate Apparel
Kimberly Akimbo WINNER
Little Girl Blue
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
Morning Sun
On Sugarland
Prayer for the French Republic WINNER
Sanctuary City
The Chinese Lady
JOHN GASSNER AWARD (presented to a new American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Cullud Wattah by Erika Dickerson-Despenza
English by Sanaz Toossi WINNER
Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury
Tambo and Bones by Dave Harris
Thoughts of a Colored Man by Keenan Scott II
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Assassins
Caroline, or Change
Company WINNER
The Music Man
The Streets of New York
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OFA PLAY (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
How I Learned to Drive
Take Me Out WINNER
A Touch of the Poet
Trouble in Mind
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Justin Cooley, Kimberly Akimbo
Myles Frost, MJ the Musical
Rob McClure, Mrs. Doubtfire
Jaquel Spivey, A Strange Loop WINNER
Chip Zien, Harmony
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Kearstin Piper Brown, Intimate Apparel
Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo WINNER
Sharon D Clarke, Caroline, or Change
Carmen Cusack, Flying Over Sunset
Joaquina Kalukango, Paradise Square
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR I A MUSICAL
Quentin Earl Darrington, MJ the Musical
Matt Doyle, Company WINNER
Steven Pasquale, Assassins
A.J. Shively, Paradise Square
Will Swenson, Assassins
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Shoshana Bean, Mr. Saturday Night
Jenn Colella, Suffs
Judy Kuhn, Assassins
Patti LuPone, Company WINNER
Bonnie Milligan, Kimberly Akimbo
OUSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Patrick J. Adams, Take Me Out
Simon Russell Beale, The Lehman Trilogy WINNER
Adam Godley, The Lehman Trilogy
Adrian Lester, The Lehman Trilogy
Sam Rockwell, American Buffalo
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Republic
Stephanie Berry, On Sugarland
Edie Falco, Morning Sun
LaChanze, Trouble in Mind WINNER
Debra Messing, Birthday Candles
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Chuck Cooper, Trouble in Mind
Brandon J. Dirden, Skeleton Crew
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me Out WINNER
Michael Oberholtzer, Take Me Out
Austin Pendleton, The Minutes
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Chanté Adams, Skeleton Crew
Uzo Aduba, Clyde's WINNER
Francis Benhamou, Prayer for the French Republic
Phylicia Rashad, Skeleton Crew
Nancy Robinette, Prayer for the French Republic
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Alex Edelman, Just For Us
Jenn Murray, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
Arturo Luís Soria, Ni Mi Madre
Kristina Wong, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord WINNER
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Scott Ellis, Take Me Out
Sam Mendes, The Lehman Trilogy WINNER
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Skeleton Crew
Anna D. Shapiro, The Minutes
OUSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Warren Carlyle, Harmony
Moisés Kaufman, Paradise Square
Jessica Stone, Kimberly Akimbo WINNER
Christopher Wheeldon, MJ the Musical
Jerry Zaks, Mrs. Doubtfire
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Warren Carlyle, Harmony
Warren Carlyle, The Music Man
Bill T. Jones, Alex Sanchez, Garrett Coleman, and Jason Oremus, Paradise Square
Christopher Wheeldon and Rich + Tone Talauega, MJ the Musical WINNER
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel, Mr. Saturday Night
Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell, Mrs. Doubtfire
David Lindsay-Abaire, Kimberly Akimbo WINNER
Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel
Bruce Sussman, Harmony
OUTSTANDING SCORE
Jason Howland, Nathan Tysen, and Masi Asare, Paradise Square
Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Doubtfire
Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, Harmony
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, Six WINNER
Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire, Kimberly Akimbo
OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS
John Clancy, Kimberly Akimbo
David Holcenberg and Jason Michael Webb, MJ the Musical
Greg Jarrett, Assassins
Jason Howland, Paradise Square WINNER
Doug Walter, Harmony
OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN (PLAY OR MUSICAL)
Beowulf Boritt, Flying Over Sunset
Es Devlin, The Lehman Trilogy
Scott Pask, American Buffalo
Adam Rigg, The Skin of Our Teeth WINNER
David Zinn, The Minutes
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN (PLAY OR MUSICAL)
Jane Greenwood, Plaza Suite
Santo Loquasto, The Music Man
Gabriella Slade, Six WINNER
Emilio Sosa, Trouble in Mind
Catherine Zuber, Mrs. Doubtfire
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN (PLAY OR MUSICAL)
Jon Clark, The Lehman Trilogy WINNER
Natasha Katz, MJ the Musical
Bradley King, Flying Over Sunset
Brian MacDevitt, The Minutes
Jen Schreiver, Lackawanna Blues
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN (PLAY OR MUSICAL)
Nick Powell and Dominic Bilkey, The Lehman Trilogy WINNER
André Pluess, The Minutes
Ben and Max Ringham, Blindness
Dan Moses Schreier, Harmony
Matt Stine, Assassins
OUTSTANDING VIDEO/PROJECTION DESIGN (PLAY OR MUSICAL)
59 Productions and Benjamin Pearcy, Flying Over Sunset
Stefania Bulbarella and Alex Basco Koch, Space Dogs
Shawn Duan, Letters of Suresh
Luke Halls, The Lehman Trilogy WINNER
Jeff Sugg, Mr. Saturday Night
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS are are presented to:
Johanna Day, David Morse, Mary-Louise Parker, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson for reprising their outstanding performances in "How I Learned to Drive" and "Lackawanna Blues" two decades later. All had been eligible in previous seasons.
OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE COMMENDATIONS are presented to:
The Standbys, Understudies, and Swings of the theatrical community who step up to perform, often on hours' notice, to keep their shows running.
To the Covid Safety Supervisors, Managers, and Compliance Officers who put themselves in harm's way eight times a week to keep the curtains up.
This season's fully eligible Broadway productions included Pass Over, Six, Lackawanna Blues, Chicken & Biscuits, Thoughts of a Colored Man, The Lehman Trilogy, Caroline, or Change, Diana, Trouble in Mind, Clyde's, Mrs. Doubtfire, Company, Flying Over Sunset, Skeleton Crew, MJ the Musical, The Music Man, Plaza Suite, Paradise Square, Take Me Out, Birthday Candles, The Little Prince, American Buffalo, The Minutes, How I Learned to Drive, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Funny Girl, The Skin of Our Teeth, Mr. Saturday Night, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.
After consideration in previous seasons, only new elements of the following productions were eligible for awards: Girl from the North Country, Is This A Room, Dana H., Hangmen, A Strange Loop.
By mutual agreement with the production, owing to Covid-19-related delays, the Broadway revival of "Macbeth" will be considered for awards during the 2022-2023 season.
The following return engagements were not eligible for awards: "Springsteen on Broadway", "Waitress", "American Utopia", "Freestyle Love Supreme", "Slave Play", "Beetlejuice."
Founded during the 1949-50 Broadway season by respected theater journalist John Gassner, The Outer Critics Circle is an esteemed association with members affiliated with more than ninety newspapers, magazines, broadcast stations, and online news organizations, in America and abroad.
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