Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical
The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical was an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor an actress for excellence in a leading role in an Off-Broadway musical production. The categories for lead performance were split into Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical in 2014, before being retired in favor of gender-neutral categories in 2021.
Before the categories were split, several musical performers won or received nominations for the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor:
- Tonya Pinkins - 2004 winner for Caroline, Or Change
- Elaine Stritch - 2002 nominee for Elaine Stritch: At Liberty
- Jayne Houdyshell - - 2010 nominee for Coraline
- Sherie Rene Scott - 2010 nominee for Everyday Rapture
- Molly Ranson - 2012 nominee for Carrie
- Mary Testa - 2012 nominee for Queen of the Mist
Award winners
- Key
2010s
Year |
Actress |
Play |
Role |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
2014 |
Ruthie Ann Miles |
Here Lies Love |
Imelda Marcos |
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Phillipa Soo |
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 |
Natasha Rostova |
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Barrett Wilbert Weed |
Heathers: The Musical |
Veronica Sawyer |
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Sydney Lucas |
Fun Home |
Small Alison |
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Alexandra Socha |
Medium Alison |
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2015 |
Phillipa Soo |
Hamilton |
Eliza Hamilton |
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Michelle Knight |
Disenchanted! |
Snow White |
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Lillias White |
Texas in Paris |
performer |
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Sally Murphy |
The Threepenny Opera |
Jenny Towler |
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Jennifer Mudge |
Into the Woods |
The Witch |
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2016 |
Annette O'Toole |
Southern Comfort |
Robert Eads |
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Sammy Tunis |
Futurity |
Ada Lovelace |
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Alison Fraser |
First Daughter Suite |
Nancy Reagan / Betty Ford |
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Mary Testa |
Barbara Bush |
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Sophia Anne Caruso |
Lazarus |
Girl |
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2017 |
Katrina Lenk |
The Band's Visit |
Dina |
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Sutton Foster |
Sweet Charity |
Charity Hope Valentine |
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Jo Lampert |
Joan of Arc: Into the Fire |
Joan |
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Siobhán McCarthy |
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
Mrs. Nellie Lovett |
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Amber Gray |
Hadestown |
Persephone |
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2018 |
Ashley Park |
KPOP |
MwE |
|
Abigail Nessen Bengson |
Hundred Days |
Performer |
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Ashley D. Kelley |
Bella: An American Tall Tale |
Isabella "Bella" Patterson |
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Julia Knitel |
A Letter to Harvey Milk |
Barbara |
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Lauren Molina |
Desperate Measures |
Bella Rose |
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2019 |
Anika Noni Rose |
Carmen Jones |
Carmen Jones |
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Gizel Jimenez |
Miss You Like Hell |
Olivia |
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Mare Winningham |
Girl from the North Country |
Elizabeth Laine |
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Stacey Sargeant |
Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future |
Beaux Weathers |
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Kate Baldwin |
Superhero |
Charlotte |
2020s
Year |
Actress |
Play |
Role |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
2020 |
Grace McLean |
In the Green |
Jutta |
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Beth Malone |
The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
Molly Brown |
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LaChanze |
The Secret Life of Bees |
August |
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Eisa Davis |
June |
Multiple nominations
- 2 nominations
- Phillipa Soo