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# Outer Critics Circle names 2019-2020 honorees
- URL: https://www.broadwaynews.com/outer-critics-circle-names-2019-2020-honorees/
- Published: 2020-05-11T18:05:21.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-05T19:43:11.000Z
- Description: The Outer Critics Circle named its 2019-2020 honorees for the abbreviated Broadway and Off-Broadway season. Rather than name nominees and winners, the writers organization chose to name up to six honorees in each acting category and up five honorees in each technical category.
- Author: Caitlin Huston
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The Outer Critics Circle named its 2019-2020 honorees for the abbreviated Broadway and Off-Broadway season.

Rather than name nominees and winners, the writers organization chose to name up to six honorees in each acting category and up five honorees in each technical category. “Moulin Rouge!” and “Jagged Little Pill” received the highest number of mentions, at 11 and eight respectively, with “The Sound Inside” and “The Secret Life of Bees” both receiving seven.

In addition to the honorees, the John Gassner Award, presented to an American play, preferably by a new playwright, was awarded to Catya McMullen for “Georgia Mertching Is Dead;” Will Arbery for “Heroes of the Fourth Turning;” Alexis Scheer for “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord;” and Eboni Booth for “Paris.”

Full list of honorees:

**OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY**

*Grand Horizons*

*The Height of the Storm*

*The Inheritance*

*Linda Vista*

*The Sound Inside*

**OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL**

*Jagged Little Pill*

*Moulin Rouge!*

*Tina: The Tina Turner Musical*

**OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY**

*Cambodian Rock Band*

*Greater Clements*

*Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven*

*Make Believe*

*Seared*

**OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL**

*Darling Grenadine*

*Octet*

*The Secret Life of Bees*

*Soft Power*

*A Strange Loop*

**OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY**

**(Broadway or Off-Broadway)**

*Betrayal*

*Fires in the Mirror*

*For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf*

*Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune*

*A Soldier’s Play*

**OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL**

**(Broadway or Off-Broadway)**

*Little Shop of Horrors*

*The Unsinkable Molly Brown*

*West Side Story*

**OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL**

**(Broadway or Off-Broadway)**

Diablo Cody, *Jagged Little Pill*

David Henry Hwang, *Soft Power*

Michael R. Jackson, *A Strange Loop*

Lynn Nottage, *The Secret Life of Bees*

Mark Saltzman, *Romeo and Bernadette*

**OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE**

**(Broadway or Off-Broadway)**

Susan Birkenhead and Duncan Sheik, *The Secret Life of Bees*

Ross Golan, *The Wrong Man*

Michael R. Jackson, *A Strange Loop*

Dave Malloy, *Octet*

Jeanine Tesori and David Henry Hwang, *Soft Power*

**OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY**

David Cromer, *The Sound Inside*

Stephen Daldry, *The Inheritance*

Kenny Leon, *A Soldier’s Play*

Jamie Lloyd, *Betrayal*

John Ortiz, *Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven*

**OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL**

Stephen Brackett, *A Strange Loop*

Michael Mayer, *Little Shop of Horrors*

Diane Paulus, *Jagged Little Pill*

Alex Timbers, *Moulin Rouge!*

Ivo van Hove, *West Side Story*

**OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER**

Sidi Larbi Cherakoui, *Jagged Little Pill*

Raja Feather Kelly, *A Strange Loop*

Sonya Tayeh, *Moulin Rouge!*

Anthony Van Laast, *Tina: The Tina Turner Musical*

Travis Wall, *The Wrong Man*

**OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS**

Tom Kitt, *Jagged Little Pill*

Alex Lacamoire, *The Wrong Man*

Justin Levine, with Matt Stine, Katie Kresek, and Charlie Rosen, *Moulin Rouge!*

Christopher Nightingale, *A Christmas Carol*

Duncan Sheik and John Clancy, *The Secret Life of Bees*

**OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY**

Ian Barford, *Linda Vista*

Edmund Donovan, *Greater Clements*

Raúl Esparza, *Seared*

Tom Hiddleston, *Betrayal*

Will Hochman, *The Sound Inside*

Jonathan Pryce, *The Height of the Storm*

**OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY**

Eileen Atkins, *The Height of the Storm*

Judith Ivey, *Greater Clements*

Joaquina Kalukango, *Slave Play*

April Matthis, *Toni Stone*

Mary-Louise Parker, *The Sound Inside*

Portia, *Stew*

**OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY**

David Alan Grier, *A Soldier’s Play*

John Benjamin Hickey, *The Inheritance*

Paul Hilton, *The Inheritance*

Samuel H. Levine, *The Inheritance*

John-Andrew Morrison, *Blues for an Alabama Sky*

Chris Perfetti, *Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow*

**OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY**

Liza Colón-Zayas, *Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven*

Montego Glover, *All the Natalie Portmans*

Marsha Mason, *Little Gem*

Krysta Rodriguez, *Seared*

Lois Smith, *The Inheritance*

Jennifer Van Dyck, *The Confession of Lily Dare*

**OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE**

David Cale, *We’re Only Alive For a Short Amount of Time*

Laura Linney, *My Name Is Lucy Barton*

Aedin Moloney, *Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom*

Deirdre O’Connell, *Dana H.*

Michael Benjamin Washington, *Fires in the Mirror*

**OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL**

Jonathan Groff, *Little Shop of Horrors*

Joshua Henry, *The Wrong Man*

Adam Kantor, *Darling Grenadine*

Larry Owens, *A Strange Loop*

Isaac Powell, *West Side Story*

Aaron Tveit, *Moulin Rouge!*

**OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL**

Beth Malone, *The Unsinkable Molly Brown*

Janelle McDermoth, *We’re Gonna Die*

Karen Olivo, *Moulin Rouge!*

Shereen Pimentel, *West Side Story*

Elizabeth Stanley, *Jagged Little Pill*

Adrienne Warren, *Tina: The Tina Turner Musical*

**OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL**

Christian Borle, *Little Shop of Horrors*

Danny Burstein, *Moulin Rouge!*

Gus Halper, *Sing Street*

Jay Armstrong Johnson, *Scotland, PA*

Francis Jue, *Soft Power*

Daniel J. Watts, *Tina: The Tina Turner Musical*

**OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL**

Eisa Davis, *The Secret Life of Bees*

Kathryn Gallagher, *Jagged Little Pill*

LaChanze, *The Secret Life of Bees*

Judy McLane, *Romeo & Bernadette*

Lauren Patten, *Jagged Little Pill*

Saycon Sengbloh, *The Secret Life of Bees*

**OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN**

**(Play or Musical)**

Rob Howell, *A Christmas Carol*

Tim Mackabee, *Seared*

Derek McLane, *Moulin Rouge!*

Clint Ramos, *Grand Horizons*

Anthony Ward, *The Height of the Storm*

**OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN**

**(Play or Musical)**

Vanessa Leuck, *Emojiland*

Jeff Mahshie, *Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice*

Mark Thompson, *Tina: The Tina Turner Musical*

Rachel Townsend & Jessica Jahn, *The Confession of Lily Dare*

Catherine Zuber, *Moulin Rouge!*

**OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN**

**(Play or Musical)**

Isabella Byrd, *Heroes of the Fourth Turning*

Heather Gilbert, *The Sound Inside*

Justin Townsend, *Moulin Rouge!*

Hugh Vanstone, *A Christmas Carol*

Hugh Vanstone, *The Height of the Storm*

**OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN**

**(Play or Musical)**

Luke Halls, *West Side Story*

Brad Peterson, *Broadway Bounty Hunter*

Lisa Renkel and Possible Productions, *Emojiland*

Aaron Rhyne, *The Sound Inside*

Hannah Wasileski, *Fires in the Mirror*

**OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN**

**(Play or Musical)**

Simon Baker, *A Christmas Carol*

Mikhail Fiksel, *Dana H.*

Peter Hylenski, *Moulin Rouge!*

Lee Kinney and Sanae Yamada, *Is This A Room*

Daniel Kluger, *The Sound Inside*