THE 2003 LUCILLE LORTEL AWARD NOMINEES
OUTSTANDING PLAY
Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
by Frank McGuinness
Our Lady of 121st Street by
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Take Me Out by Richard
Greenberg
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL
Avenue Q, music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, book
by Jeff Whitty
Hank Williams: Lost Highway, by
Randal Myler and Mark Harelik
Radiant Baby book by Stuart
Ross, music by Debra Barsha, lyrics by Ira Gasman, Stuart Ross, and Debra Barsha
Zanna, Don't! book, music, and
lyrics by Tim Acito, Additional Book and Lyrics by Alexander Dinelaris
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL
Burn This, by Lanford Wilson
Comedians by Trevor
Griffiths
Don Juan by Moliere, translated
by Christopher Hampton
Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
Jo Bonney for Fifth of
July
Philip Seymour Hoffman for
Our Lady of 121st Street
Joe Mantello for Take Me
Out
Nicholas Martin for Observe
the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
Jason Moore for Avenue Q
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
Ronald K. Brown, for
Crowns
Martha Clarke, for Vienna:
Lusthaus (revisited)
Devanand Janki for Zanna
Don't!
Ken Roberson for Avenue
Q
Fatima Robinson for Radiant
Baby
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR
Charles Busch in Shanghai
Moon
Jim Dale in
Comedians
Edward Norton in Burn
This
Jason Petty in Hank Williams:
Lost Highway
Daniel Sunjata in Take Me
Out
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS
Tovah Feldshuh in Golda's
Balcony
S. Epatha Merkerson in
Fucking A
Kate Mulgrew in Tea at
Five
Pamela Payton-Wright in
Fifth of July
Parker Posey in Fifth of July
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR
Walter Bobbie in Polish
Joke
Mos Def in Fucking
A
Ron Cephas Jones in Our Lady
of 121st Street
Denis O'Hare in Take Me
Out
Justin Theroux in Observe the
Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS
Anika Larsen in Zanna,
Don't!
Jan Maxwell in My Old
Lady
Nancy Opel in Polish
Joke
Portia in Our Lady of 121st
Street
Daphne Rubin-Vega in Fucking
A
OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN
Christopher Akerlind for Don
Juan
John Lee Beatty for My Old
Lady
Alexander Dodge for Observe
the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
Anna Louizos for Avenue
Q
Mark Wendland for The
World Over
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Bottari and Ronald Case
for Shanghai Moon
Susan Hilferty for My Life With
Albertine
Paul Tazewell for Boston
Marriage
Catherine Zuber for Far Away
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Christopher Akerlind for Don
Juan
Howell Binkley for Radiant
Baby
Donald Holder for Observe the
Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
James F. Ingalls for My Life With
Albertine
James Vermeulen for Fifth of July
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN
Paul Arditti for Far
Away
Mark Bennett for Golda's
Balcony
Brett Jarvis for Avenue
Q
Jerry Yager for Observe the
Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
UNIQUE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE goes to The Exonated
EDITH OLIVER AWARD FOR SUSTAINED
EXCELLENCE goes to Marian Seldes
OUTSTANDING BODY OF WORK goes to The Vineyard Theatre