2024 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations

Best New Broadway Play
“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” by Jocelyn Bioh
“Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions” by Paula Vogel
“Patriots” by Peter Morgan
“Stereophonic” by David Adjmi
“The Shark Is Broken” by Joseph Nixon and Ian Shaw

Best New Broadway Musical
“Days of Wine and Roses”
“Suffs”
“The Great Gatsby”
“The Outsiders”
“Water for Elephants”

Best New Off-Broadway Musical
“Buena Vista Social Club”
“Dead Outlaw”
“Illinoise”
“Teeth”
“The Connector”

Best New Off-Broadway Play
“Dig” by Theresa Rebeck
“King of the Jews” by Leslie Epstein
“King James” by Rajiv Joseph
“Primary Trust” by Eboni Booth
“Swing State” by Rebecca Gilman

John Gassner Award (new American play preferably by a new playwright)
“Job” by Max Wolf Friedlich
“Manahatta” by Mary Kathryn Nagle
“Oh, Mary!” by Cole Escola
“The Apiary” by Kate Douglas
“Wet Brain” by John J. Caswell Jr.

Best Revival of a Musical
“Cabaret”
“Here Lies Love”
“I Can Get It for You Wholesale”
“Monty Python’s Spamalot”
“The Who’s Tommy”

Best Revival of a Play
“An Enemy of the People”
“Appropriate”
“Doubt: A Parable”
“Mary Jane”
“Philadelphia, Here I Come!”
“Purlie Victorious”

Best Lead Performer in a Broadway Play
Jessica Lange – “Mother Play”
Rachel McAdams – “Mary Jane”
Sarah Paulson – “Appropriate”
Jeremy Strong – “An Enemy of the People”
Michael Stuhlbarg – “Patriots”

Best Featured Performer in a Broadway Play
Billy Eugene Jones – “Purlie Victorious”
Celia Keenan-Bolger – “Mother Play”
Alex Moffat – “The Cottage”
Jim Parsons – “Mother Play”
Sarah Pidgeon – “Stereophonic”
Kara Young – “Purlie Victorious”

Best Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical
Ali Louis Bourzgui – “The Who’s Tommy’
Brian d’Arcy James – “Days of Wine and Roses”
Casey Likes – “Back to the Future”
Kelli O’Hara – “Days of Wine and Roses”
Maryann Plunkett – “The Notebook”

Best Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical
Roger Bart – “Back to the Future”
Justin Guarini – “Once Upon a One More Time”
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer – “Spamalot”
Kecia Lewis – “Hell’s Kitchen”
Bebe Neuwirth – “Cabaret”

Best Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical
Jeb Brown – “Dead Outlaw”
Andrew Durand – “Dead Outlaw”
Alyse Alan Louis – “Teeth”
Ben Levi Ross – “The Connector”
Ricky Ubeda – “Illinoise”

Best Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical
Ben Cook – “Illinoise”
Hannah Cruz – “The Connector”
Julia Knitel – “Dead Outlaw”
Judy Kuhn – “I Can Get It For You Wholesale”
Jessica Molaskey – “The Connector”
Thom Sesma – “Dead Outlaw”

Best Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play
Cole Escola – “Oh, Mary!”
Mary Beth Fisher – “Swing State”
William Jackson Harper – “Primary Trust”
Marie Mullen – “The Saviour”
Paul Sparks – “Waiting for Godot”

Best Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play
Gus Birney – “Our Class”
April Matthis – “Primary Trust”
Conrad Ricamora – “Oh, Mary!”
Jay O. Sanders – “Primary Trust”
Bubba Weiler – “Swing State”

Best Solo Performance
Eddie Izzard – “Hamlet”
Patrick Page – “All the Devils are Here”
Mona Pirnot – “I Love You So Much I Could Die”
Robert Montano – “Small”
John Rubenstein – “Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground”

Best Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury – “Illinoise”
Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson – “Teeth”
Itamar Moses – “Dead Outlaw”
Jonathan Marc Sherman – “The Connector”
Shaina Taub – “Suffs”

Best Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Jason Robert Brown – “The Connector”
Will Butler – “Stereophonic”
Adam Guettel – “Days of Wine and Roses”
David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna – “Dead Outlaw”
Shaina Taub – “Suffs”

Best Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Timo Andres – “Illinoise”
Adam Guettel and Jamie Lawrence – “Days of Wine and Roses”
Marco Paguia – “Buena Vista Social Club”
Michael Starobin – “Suffs”
Erik Della Penna, Dean Sharenow, and David Yazbek – “Dead Outlaw”

Best Direction of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
David Cromer – “Dead Outlaw”
Michael Greif – “Days of Wine and Roses”
Daisy Prince – “The Connector”
Leigh Silverman – “Suffs”
Jessica Stone – “Water for Elephants”

Best Direction of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Knud Adams – “Primary Trust”
Daniel Aukin – “Stereophonic”
Robert Falls – “Swing State”
Kenny Leon – “Purlie Victorious”
Lila Neugebauer – “Appropriate”

Best Choreography (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Jesse Robb and Shana Carroll – “Water for Elephants”
Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman – ‘The Outsiders”
Lorin Latarro – “The Who’s Tommy”
Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck – “Buena Vista Social Club”
Justin Peck — “Illinoise”

Best Scenic Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Paul Tate dePoo III – “The Cottage”
Paul Tate dePoo III – “The Great Gatsby”
Dots – “Appropriate”
David Korins – “Here Lies Love”
David Zinn – “Stereophonic”

Best Costume Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Dede Ayite – “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”
Enver Chakartash – “Stereophonic”
Enver Chakartash – “Teeth”
Linda Cho – “The Great Gatsby”
Sydney Maresca – “The Cottage”

Best Lighting Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Bradley King – “Water for Elephants”
Brian MacDevitt – “The Outsiders”
Justin Townsend – “Here Lies Love”
Tim Lutkin and Hugh Vanstone – “Back to the Future”
Amanda Zieve – “The Who’s Tommy”

Best Sound Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Tom Gibbons – “Grey House”
Gareth Owen – “Back to the Future”
Gareth Owen – “The Who’s Tommy”
Ryan Rumery – “Stereophonic”
M.L. Dogg and Cody Spencer – “Here Lies Love”

Best Video/Projections (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
David Bengali – “Water for Elephants”
Paul Tate dePoo III — “The Great Gatsby”
Peter Nigrini – “The Who’s Tommy”
Finn Ross – “Back to the Future”
Ash J. Woodward – “Patriots”