Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Female Dancer in an Off-Broadway Show

The Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Female Dancer in an Off-Broadway Show was an annual award presented to a female dancer for their work on an Off-Broadway production. The award was added in the 2015-2016 season, the final year the awards were known as the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards.

The award was established in 2016, and was subsequently replaced by the gender-neutral Outstanding Dancers in an Off-Broadway Show in 2023.

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year

Recipient

Production

Ref.

2016

Rumi Oyama

Sayonara

Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer

The Robber Bridegroom

Ellen Zolezzi

Cagney

2017

Lyrica Woodruff

Finian's Rainbow

Emily Padgett

Sweet Charity

Nikka Graff Lanzarone

Asmeret Ghebremichael

Yesenia Ayala

2018

Monica Bill Barnes

One Night Only

Anna Bass

One Night Only

Elizabeth Carena

Ghost Light

Tiffany Mann

Jerry Springer: The Opera

Kenita Miller

Bella

2019

Irina Dvorovenko

The Beast in the Jungle

Emma Degerstedt

Smokey Joe's Cafe

Dionne D. Figgins

Mia Dilena

Alice by Heart

Naomi Kakuk

The Beast in the Jungle

2020s

Year

Recipient

Production

Ref.

2020

No awards ceremony held due to COVID-19 pandemic.

2021

2022

No award given.

2023

Gaby Diaz

Only Gold