Nominations have been revealed for the third annual Dorian Theater Awards. Presented by the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), the awards body recognizes excellence in stage productions both with and without an LGBTQ theme. As previously reported, winners of the 2025 Dorians, which encompass productions that played Broadway and Off-Broadway in the 2024-2005 season, will be named on June 2.
Leading the pack was “Death Becomes Her,” which received seven nominations, including a nod for Outstanding Broadway Musical. Rounding out the category were “Dead Outlaw,” “Just in Time,” “Maybe Happy Ending,” “Operation Mincemeat” and “Real Women Have Curves.”
Three productions tied with the second-highest number of nominations (six): “John Proctor Is the Villain” and “Purpose,” both of which received recognition in the Outstanding Broadway Play category (alongside “English,” “The Hills of California” and “The Picture of Dorian Gray”), as well as “Sunset Boulevard,” which was named in the Outstanding Broadway Revival category with “Floyd Collins,” “Gypsy” and “Pirates! The Penzance Musical.”
“Death Becomes Her” and “Purpose” were also named in the Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway category. Additional nominees include “Cult of Love,” “Redwood” and “Smash.”
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” received five nods, the most of any Off-Broadway production.
With three nominations, Jinkx Monsoon was the most decorated individual across the slate of nominees. Monsoon was nominated in Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical for her turn as Ruth in Roundabout Theatre Company’s reimagined “Pirates!” Monsoon was also cited in two categories unique to the Dorian Awards: LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season and LGBTQ+ Theater Trailblazer, the latter of which acknowledges a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity.
Moreover, the Dorian Awards has several categories not seen in other awards bodies, including the Broadway Showstopper Award. The citation honors a standout production number or scene. This year’s nominees comprise the “Death Becomes Her” tuner “For the Gaze” (performed by Megan Hilty), Audra McDonald’s performance of “Rose’s Turn” in the revival of “Gypsy,” Sadie Sink and Amalia Yoo’s rendition of “Green Light” in “John Proctor Is the Villain,” the song “Chasing Fireflies” from “Maybe Happy Ending” (as performed by Darren Criss and Helen J Shen) and Tom Francis’ performance of the title song from the revival of “Sunset Boulevard.”
A complete list of nominees can be found below.
Outstanding Broadway Musical
“Death Becomes Her”
“Dead Outlaw”
“Just in Time”
“Maybe Happy Ending”
“Operation Mincemeat”
“Real Women Have Curves”
Outstanding Broadway Play
“English”
“John Proctor Is the Villain”
“The Hills of California”
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”
“Purpose”
Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival
“Floyd Collins”
“Gypsy”
“Pirates! The Penzance Musical”
“Sunset Boulevard”
Outstanding Broadway Play Revival
“Eureka Day”
“Our Town”
“Romeo + Juliet”
“Yellow Face”
Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production
“Cult of Love”
“Death Becomes Her”
“Purpose”
“Redwood”
“Smash”
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical
Darren Criss, “Maybe Happy Ending”
Andrew Durand, “Dead Outlaw”
Tom Francis, “Sunset Boulevard”
Jonathan Groff, “Just in Time”
Megan Hilty, “Death Becomes Her”
Audra McDonald, “Gypsy”
Jasmine Amy Rogers, “Boop! The Musical”
Nicole Scherzinger, “Sunset Boulevard”
Helen J Shen, “Maybe Happy Ending”
Jennifer Simard, “Death Becomes Her”
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play
Kit Connor, “Romeo + Juliet”
Laura Donnelly, “The Hills of California”
Mia Farrow, “The Roommate”
Daniel Dae Kim, “Yellow Face”
Sydney Lemmon, “Job”
Louis McCartney, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”
Jon Michael Hill, “Purpose”
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, “Purpose”
Sadie Sink, “John Proctor Is the Villain”
Sarah Snook, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical
Natalie Venetia Belcon, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Jeb Brown, “Dead Outlaw”
Gracie Lawrence, “Just in Time”
Justina Machado, “Real Women Have Curves”
Jak Malone, “Operation Mincemeat”
Jinkx Monsoon, “Pirates! The Penzance Musical”
Lea Salonga, “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends”
Christopher Sieber, “Death Becomes Her”
Taylor Trensch, “Floyd Collins”
David Thaxton, “Sunset Boulevard”
Michael Urie, “Once Upon a Mattress”
Joy Woods, “Gypsy”
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play
Alana Arenas, “Purpose”
Tala Ashe, “English”
Molly Bernard, “Cult of Love”
Jessica Hecht, “Eureka Day”
Francis Jue, “Yellow Face”
Marjan Neshat, “English”
Bob Odenkirk, “Glengarry Glen Ross”
Zachary Quinto, “Cult of Love”
Fina Strazza, “John Proctor Is the Villain”
Amalia Yoo, “John Proctor Is the Villain”
Kara Young, “Purpose”
Outstanding Broadway Ensemble
“Cult of Love”
“Death Becomes Her”
“John Proctor Is the Villain”
“Real Women Have Curves”
“Sunset Boulevard”
The Broadway Showstopper Award
To a standout production number or scene
“Death Becomes Her” — “For the Gaze,” performed by Megan Hilty
“Gypsy” — “Rose’s Turn,” performed by Audra McDonald
“John Proctor Is the Villain” — “Green Light,” performed by Sadie Sink and
Amalia Yoo
“Maybe Happy Ending” — “Chasing Fireflies,” performed by Darren Criss and Helen J Shen
“Sunset Boulevard” — “Sunset Boulevard,” performed by Tom Francis
Outstanding Off-Broadway Production
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
“Grangeville”
“Liberation”
“Vanya”
“Wine in the Wilderness”
Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
“Drag: The Musical”
“Grangeville”
“The Fires”
“We Had a World”
Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Patsy Ferran, “A Streetcar Named Desire”
Susannah Flood, “Liberation”
Brandon Flynn, “Kowalski”
Joanna Gleason, “We Had a World”
Marla Mindelle, “The Big Gay Jamboree”
Paul Mescal, “A Streetcar Named Desire”
Andrew Scott, “Vanya”
Paul Sparks, “Grangeville”
Alaska Thunderfuck, “Drag: The Musical”
Olivia Washington, “Wine in the Wilderness”
Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Betsy Aidem, “Liberation”
Billy Crudup, “Ghosts”
André De Shields, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Drew Elhamalawy, “We Live in Cairo”
Sydney James Harcourt, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Jujubee, “Drag: The Musical”
Ahmad Kamal, “Sumo”
Julia Lester, “All Nighter”
Paris Nix, “The Big Gay Jamboree”
Jeanine Serralles, “We Had a World”
Kyra Sedgwick, “All of Me”
“Tempress” Chastity Moore, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Jenny Lee Stern, “Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song”
Jason Veasey, “The Fires”
Natalie Walker, “The Big Gay Jamboree”
LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season
Michael Arden
Tommy Dorfman
Jonathan Groff
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Jinkx Monsoon
LGBTQ+ Theater Trailblazer
For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity
André De Shields
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Jinkx Monsoon
Andrew Scott
Paul Tazewell
George C. Wolfe
Productions With Multiple Nominations
“Death Becomes Her” — 7
“John Proctor Is the Villain” — 6
“Purpose” — 6
“Sunset Boulevard” — 6
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” — 5
“Cult of Love” — 4
“Gypsy” — 4
“Maybe Happy Ending” — 4
“The Big Gay Jamboree” — 3
“Drag: The Musical” — 3
“English” — 3
“Dead Outlaw” — 3
“Grangeville” — 3
“Just in Time” — 3
“Liberation” — 3
“Real Women Have Curves” — 3
“We Had a World” — 3
“Yellow Face” — 3
“Eureka Day” — 2
“The Fires” — 2
“Floyd Collins” — 2
“Operation Mincemeat” — 2
“The Hills of California” — 2
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” — 2
“Pirates! The Penzance Musical” — 2
“A Streetcar Named Desire” — 2
“Vanya” — 2
“Wine in the Wilderness” — 2
