OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE 2018-2019 NOMINATIONS AND WINNERS
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY
The Ferryman WINNER
Ink
Network
To Kill a Mockingbird
What the Constitution Means to Me
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL
Be More Chill
Hadestown WINNER
Head Over Heels
The Prom
Tootsie
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
Fairview
The House That Will Not Stand
Lewiston / Clarkston
The Light
White Noise WINNER
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
The Beast in the Jungle
Black Light
Girl from the North Country WINNER
The Hello Girls
Midnight at the Never Get
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Robert Horn for Tootsie WINNER
Conor McPherson for Girl from the North Country
Peter Mills and Cara Reichel for The Hello Girls
Anaïs Mitchell for Hadestown
Jeff Whitty and James Magruder for Head Over Heels
OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin for The Prom
Joe Iconis for Be More Chill
Peter Mills for The Hello Girls
Anaïs Mitchell for Hadestown WINNER
David Yazbeck for Tootsie
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
All My Sons WINNER
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Juno and the Paycock
Our Lady of 121st Street
The Waverly Gallery
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Carmen Jones
Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish) WINNER
Kiss Me, Kate
Oklahoma!
Smokey Joe’s Cafe
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Rupert Goold for Ink
Sam Mendes for The Ferryman WINNER
Jack O’Brien for All My Sons
Bartlett Sher for To Kill a Mockingbird
Logan Vaughn for The Light
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Rachel Chavkin for Hadestown WINNER
Scott Ellis for Tootsie
Daniel Fish for Oklahoma!
Joel Grey for Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish)
Cara Reichel for The Hello Girls
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
Warren Carlyle for Kiss Me, Kate WINNER
Christopher Gattelli for The Cher Show
Denis Jones for Tootsie
David Neumann for Hadestown
Sergio Trujillo for Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations
OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Beowulf Boritt for Bernhardt/Hamlet
Bunny Christie for Ink
Rachel Hauck for Hadestown
Rob Howell for The Ferryman
David Korins Beetlejuice WINNER
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Rob Howell for The Ferryman
Bob Mackie for The Cher Show WINNER
William Ivey Long for Beetlejuice
William Ivey Long for Tootsie
Arianne Phillips for Head Over Heels
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Neil Austin for Ink
Stacey Derosier for Lewiston / Clarkston
Bradley King for Hadestown WINNER
Jason Lyons for Sugar in Our Wounds
Peter Mumford for King Kong
OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Peter England for King Kong WINNER
Alex Basco Koch for Be More Chill
Peter Nigrini for Beetlejuice
Jeff Sugg for All My Sons
Tal Yarden for Network
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
John Gromada for All My Sons
Peter Hylenski for King Kong WINNER
Drew Levy for Oklahoma!
Eric Sleichim for Network
Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz for Hadestown
OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS
Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose for Hadestown
Simon Hale for Girl from the North Country
Joseph Joubert for Carmen Jones
Daniel Kluger for Oklahoma! WINNER
Harold Wheeler for Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
McKinley Belcher III for The Light
Bryan Cranston for Network WINNER
Daveed Diggs for White Noise
Bill Irwin for On Beckett
Jeremy Pope Choir Boy
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Glenn Close for Mother of the Maid
Edie Falco for The True
Glenda Jackson for King Lear
Mandi Masden for The Light
Elaine May for The Waverly Gallery WINNER
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Brooks Ashmanskas for The Prom
Reeve Carney for Hadestown
Damon Daunno for Oklahoma!
Santino Fontana for Tootsie WINNER
Steven Skybell for Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish)
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Stephanie J. Block for The Cher Show WINNER
Kelli O’Hara for Kiss Me, Kate
Beth Leavel for The Prom
Anika Noni Rose for Carmen Jones
Mare Winningham for Girl from the North Country
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Bertie Carvel for Ink
John Clay III for Choir Boy
Hugh Dancy for Apologia
John Procaccino for Downstairs
Benjamin Walker for All My Sons WINNER
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Joan Allen for The Waverly Gallery
Stephanie Berry for Sugar in Our Wounds
Fionnula Flanagan for The Ferryman
Harriett D. Foy for The House That Will Not Stand
Celia Keenan-Bolger for To Kill a Mockingbird WINNER
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
John Behlmann for Tootsie
André De Shields for Hadestown WINNER
Reg Rogers for Tootsie
George Salazar for Be More Chill
Ephraim Sykes for Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Amber Gray for Hadestown WINNER
Leslie Kritzer for Beetlejuice
Bonnie Milligan for Head Over Heels
Sarah Stiles for Tootsie
Ali Stroker for Oklahoma!
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Mike Birbiglia for The New One WINNER
Maddie Corman for Accidentally Brave
Jake Gyllenhaal for A Life
Carey Mulligan for Girls & Boys
Renée Taylor for My Life on a Diet
JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Jeremy O. Harris for Slave Play
Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell for The Lifespan of a Fact WINNER
Donja R. Love for Sugar in Our Wounds
Ming Peiffer for Usual Girls
Charly Evon Simpson for Behind the Sheet
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
The Puppetry Team That Created and Operates King Kong
recognizing the artistry and technical achievement that brings a 2,000-pound gorilla to life:
Puppet designer and builder Sonny Tilders and the Creature Technology Company
Scenic designer Peter England, who collaborated on the aesthetics of the puppet
Aerial and movement director Gavin Robins
The members of the King’s Company, who move Kong on stage: Mike Baerga, Rhaamell Burke-Missouri,
Jovan Dansberry, Casey Garvin, Gabriel Hyman, Marty Lawson, Roberto Olvera, Khadija Tariyan, Lauren
Yalango-Grant, and David Yijae
Kong’s Voodoo Operators, who control his facial expressions: Jon Hoche, Danny Miller, and Jacob Williams.
The York Theatre Company
James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director
Evans Haile, Executive Director
in recognition of 50 years of producing new musicals, as well as classics from the past
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