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The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play is an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor a performer for excellence in a leading role in an Off-Broadway play production since 2022,[Acting Categories Split into Musicals and Plays] when the acting categories were made gender-neutral.
Jacob Ming-Trent is the only performer to be nominated more than once, with two nominations.
Winners and nominees
;Key
2020s
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#bebebe;"
! Year
! Actress
! Play
! Character
!
|-
|- style="background:#DCEEFF
! rowspan="5" align="center"| 2022
|
Bonnie Milligan
|
Kimberly Akimbo
|
Debra
|rowspan=5|
|-
|Steven Boyer
|
Kimberly Akimbo
|Buddy
|-
|Lillias White
|
Black No More
|Performer
|-
|Will Swenson
|rowspan=2|
Assassins
|Charles Guiteau
|-
|Ethan Slater
|The Balladeer / Lee Harvey Oswald
|-
|- style="background:#DCEEFF
! rowspan="7" align="center"|
2023
|
A.J. Shively
|
A Man of No Importance
|
Robbie Fay
|rowspan=7|
|-
|Jacob Ming-Trent
|
The Harder They Come
|Pedro
|-
|John Riddle
|
Titanique
|Cal
|-
|Nikki M. James
|
Suffs
|Ida B. Wells
|-
|Darren Goldstein
|
The Bedwetter
|Donald
|-
|Krystal Joy Brown
|rowspan=2|
Merrily We Roll Along
|Gussie Carnegie
|-
|Reg Rogers
|Joe
|-
|- style="background:#DCEEFF
! rowspan="7" align="center"| 2024
|
Kecia Lewis
|
Hell's Kitchen
|
Miss Liza Jane
|rowspan=7|
|-
|Rodrick Covington
|
Rock & Roll Man
|Little Richard
|-
|Thom Sesma
|
Dead Outlaw
|Thomas Noguchi
|-
|Mel Semé
|
Buena Vista Social Club
|Ibrahim
|-
|Steven Pasquale
|
Teeth
|Pastor Bill O'Keefe
|-
|Jessica Molaskey
|
The Connector
|Muriel
|-
|Shoshana Bean
|
Hell's Kitchen
|Jersey
|-
|- style="background:#DCEEFF
! rowspan="6" align="center"|
2025
|
Paris Nix
|
The Big Gay Jamboree
|
Clarence
|rowspan=6|
|-
|Natalie Walker
|
The Big Gay Jamboree
|Flora
|-
|Helen J. Shen
|
The Lonely Few
|JJ
|-
|Jacob Ming-Trent
|
Medea: Re-Versed
|Creon
|-
|Eddie Korbich
|rowspan=2|
Drag: The Musical
|Drunk Jerry
|-
|Jujubee
|The Tigress
|-
!rowspan=8 align=center|
2026
|- style="background:#DCEEFF
|
Nick Rashad Burroughs
|
Goddess
|
Ahmed
|rowspan=7|
|-
|Judy Kuhn
|
The Baker's Wife
|Denise
|-
|Erin Morton
|Heathers: The Musical
|Martha Dunstock
|-
|Stephanie Jae Park
|
Monte Cristo
|Haydee/Others
|-
|Caleb Quezon
|
Saturday Church
|Dijon
|-
|Natalie Walker
|
The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse
|Kiki
|-
|Lynne Wintersteller
|
About Time
|Performer
|}
Performers with multiple nominations
;2 nominations
* Jacob Ming-Trent
See also
* Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical
* Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical
References
