Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Projection Design

The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Projection Design is an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor excellence in projection design for an Off-Broadway musical or play production since 2017.

Jared Mezzocchi won the inaugural award in 2017 for his work on Vietgone. No designer has won the award mopre than once. Jared Mezzocchi, Hannah Wasileski, Alex Basco Koch and David Bengali have received the most nominations, with three each.

Winners and nominees

Key

2010s

Year	Designer	Production
2017
	Jared Mezzocchi	*Vietgone*
	Peter Nigrini	Dear Evan Hansen
	Peter Nigrini	Wakey, Wakey
	Duncan McLean	Privacy
	Elaine J. McCarthy	Notes from the Field
2018
	Hannah Wasileski	*Pipeline*
	Alexander V. Nichols	Ernest Shackleton Loves Me
	Lucy Mackinnon	After the Blast
	Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew	Relevance
	Brad Peterson	The Stone Witch
2019
	Tal Yarden	*Superhero*
	Alex Basco Koch	Fireflies
	Alex Basco Koch	Be More Chill
	Luke Halls	Girls & Boys
	Katherine Freer	By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

2020s

Year	Designer	Production
2020
	Ray Sun	*The Headlands*
	Hannah Wasileski	Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities
	Hannah Wasileski	Anatomy of a Suicide
	Lisa Renkel	Emojiland
	Stephan Mazurek	Mojada
2021	No ceremony held due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2022
	Shawn Duan	*Letters of Suresh*
	David Bengali and Hana Sooyeon Kim	The Visitor
	Caite Hevner	Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
	Yee Eun Nam	Long Day's Journey into Night
	Shawn Duan	The Chinese Lady
2023
	Kameron Neal	*Dark Disabled Stories*
	Justin Nestor, Alex Hawthorn and Kelly Colburn	american (tele)visions
	S. Katy Tucker	Letters from Max, a Ritual
	Yee Eun Nam	Once Upon A (korean) Time
	Alex Basco Koch	The Orchard
2024
	Nicholas Hussong	*Wet Brain*
	Jared Mezzocchi	Poor Yella Rednecks
	Jared Mezzocchi	Russian Troll Farm
	Benjamin Pearcy and Brad Peterson	Corruption
	Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew	The Connector
2025
	David Bengali	Here There Are Blueberries
	Eric Dunlap, Igor Golyak and Andreea Mincic	Our Class
	David Bengali	We Live in Cairo
	Brian Pacelli	Scarlett Dreams
	Hana Sooyeon Kim	Sumo
2026
	John Narun	*Bughouse*
	David Bengali	My Joy Is Heavy
	Stefania Bulbarella	Nothing Can Take You From The Hand Of God
	Akhila Krishnan	Kyoto
	Johnny Moreno	Mexodus

Multiple nominations

4 nominations

David Bengali

3 nominations

Jared Mezzocchi
Hannah Wasileski
Alex Basco Koch

2 nominations

Peter Nigrini
Brad Peterson
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Yee Eun Nam
Hana Sooyeon Kim

37th Lucille Lortel Awards38th Lucille Lortel Awards39th Lucille Lortel Awards40th Lucille Lortel Awards41st Lucille Lortel AwardsAfter the BlastAnatomy of a SuicideBe More Chill (musical)By the Way, Meet Vera StarkCorruption (play)COVID-19 pandemicDark Disabled StoriesDavid BengaliDear Evan HansenDrama Desk Award for Outstanding Projection DesignElaine J. McCarthyEmojilandFires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other IdentitiesGirls & Boys (play)Here There Are BlueberriesJared MezzocchiKyoto (play)Long Day's Journey into NightLucille Lortel AwardLucille Lortel AwardsMexodusOff-BroadwayOuter Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Projection DesignPeter NigriniPipeline (play)Privacy (play)Superhero (musical)The Chinese Lady (play)The Connector (musical)The HeadlandsThe Visitor (play)We Live in Cairo

Backlinks (13)

37th Lucille Lortel Awards39th Lucille Lortel Awards40th Lucille Lortel Awards41st Lucille Lortel AwardsDark Disabled StoriesHere There Are BlueberriesKyoto (play)Lucille Lortel AwardsMexodusOuter Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Projection DesignPipeline (play)The Chinese Lady (play)The Connector (musical)

External links (26)

Templates (85)

AmboxBothCategory handlerCite webDated maintenance categoryDated maintenance category (articles)DMCAFind sources mainspaceFULLROOTPAGENAMEGreater color contrast ratioIf emptyInfoboxInfobox awardLegendLegend/styles.cssMain otherModule:ArgumentsModule:Category handlerModule:Category handler/blacklistModule:Category handler/configModule:Category handler/dataModule:Category handler/sharedModule:Check for conflicting parametersModule:Check for unknown parametersModule:Citation/CS1Module:Citation/CS1/COinSModule:Citation/CS1/ConfigurationModule:Citation/CS1/Date validationModule:Citation/CS1/IdentifiersModule:Citation/CS1/styles.cssModule:Citation/CS1/UtilitiesModule:Citation/CS1/WhitelistModule:Color contrastModule:Color contrast/colorsModule:Disambiguation/templatesModule:Find sourcesModule:Find sources/configModule:Find sources/linksModule:Find sources/templates/Find sources mainspaceModule:If emptyModule:InfoboxModule:Infobox/styles.cssModule:InfoboxImageModule:Is infobox in leadModule:Message boxModule:Message box/ambox.cssModule:Message box/configurationModule:Namespace detectModule:Namespace detect/configModule:Namespace detect/dataModule:Ns has subpagesModule:PagetypeModule:Pagetype/configModule:Pagetype/disambiguationModule:Pagetype/rfdModule:Pagetype/setindexModule:Pagetype/softredirectModule:SDcatModule:Section linkModule:StringModule:Template link generalModule:UnsubstModule:URLModule:WikidataIBModule:WikidataIB/nolinksModule:WikidataIB/titleformatsModule:Wikitext ParsingModule:YesnoNamespace detectNOINDEXNs has subpagesPagetypePrimary sourcesProd llm/datedReflistReflist/styles.cssSDcatSection linkShort descriptionShort description/lowercasecheckSlinkTemplate link with substTemplate otherTlspURL

📊 Wikidata

Subject Facts

QID: Q125749699

Label: Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Projection Design

Description: annual Off-Broadway theatre award

Founded: 2016

Official website: https://lortelaward.com/projection-design

Wikidata Archive Data

Wikidata type ID: Q38033430

Captured: August 8, 2026 4:40 PM

View raw claims JSON

Stored properties: 6

P17P31P361P571P856P2257

{
    "P17": [
        {
            "id": "Q125749699$861FA953-ACBD-47C4-BF9F-75AEC11F68F9",
            "rank": "normal",
            "type": "statement",
            "mainsnak": {
                "hash": "be4c6eafa2984964f04be85667263f5642ba1a72",
                "datatype": "wikibase-item",
                "property": "P17",
                "snaktype": "value",
                "datavalue": {
                    "type": "wikibase-entityid",
                    "value": {
                        "id": "Q30",
                        "numeric-id": 30,
                        "entity-type": "item"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    ],
    "P31": [
        {
            "id": "Q125749699$721BBCD3-6CD3-465B-9C17-C20ABDEE9631",
            "rank": "normal",
            "type": "statement",
            "mainsnak": {
                "hash": "518fcd483a374832ee9fc981629b0bc9d2d39cb4",
                "datatype": "wikibase-item",
                "property": "P31",
                "snaktype": "value",
                "datavalue": {
                    "type": "wikibase-entityid",
                    "value": {
                        "id": "Q38033430",
                        "numeric-id": 38033430,
                        "entity-type": "item"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    ],
    "P361": [
        {
            "id": "Q125749699$BD5B5050-6ACB-468A-8E40-5A354E11F177",
            "rank": "normal",
            "type": "statement",
            "mainsnak": {
                "hash": "f729ad7753acb06f513180a83b7c12a27e462fdb",
                "datatype": "wikibase-item",
                "property": "P361",
                "snaktype": "value",
                "datavalue": {
                    "type": "wikibase-entityid",
                    "value": {
                        "id": "Q6697295",
                        "numeric-id": 6697295,
                        "entity-type": "item"
                    }
                }
            },
            "references": [
                {
                    "hash": "546ccca3f84687828c9fb3493d7424e08142f93e",
                    "snaks": {
                        "P813": [
                            {
                                "hash": "6b387a949e9390b39b14f005957c70e689ae060d",
                                "datatype": "time",
                                "property": "P813",
                                "snaktype": "value",
                                "datavalue": {
                                    "type": "time",
                                    "value": {
                                        "time": "+2024-05-02T00:00:00Z",
                                        "after": 0,
                                        "before": 0,
                                        "timezone": 0,
                                        "precision": 11,
                                        "calendarmodel": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985727"
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        ],
                        "P854": [
                            {
                                "hash": "e53b4d1d21a1413c803e9fc6e6b0eb453d021218",
                                "datatype": "url",
                                "property": "P854",
                                "snaktype": "value",
                                "datavalue": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "value": "https://lortelaward.com/recipients-by-category/"
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    "snaks-order": [
                        "P854",
                        "P813"
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "P571": [
        {
            "id": "Q125749699$964EDA15-BF51-4D78-90AC-BD46B15A9352",
            "rank": "normal",
            "type": "statement",
            "mainsnak": {
                "hash": "cdc891a2da69f4d506198daa2bf279f6225ae5c2",
                "datatype": "time",
                "property": "P571",
                "snaktype": "value",
                "datavalue": {
                    "type": "time",
                    "value": {
                        "time": "+2016-00-00T00:00:00Z",
                        "after": 0,
                        "before": 0,
                        "timezone": 0,
                        "precision": 9,
                        "calendarmodel": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985727"
                    }
                }
            },
            "references": [
                {
                    "hash": "5838831dcaaae521a9e22bbb1497a7a649680938",
                    "snaks": {
                        "P813": [
                            {
                                "hash": "6b387a949e9390b39b14f005957c70e689ae060d",
                                "datatype": "time",
                                "property": "P813",
                                "snaktype": "value",
                                "datavalue": {
                                    "type": "time",
                                    "value": {
                                        "time": "+2024-05-02T00:00:00Z",
                                        "after": 0,
                                        "before": 0,
                                        "timezone": 0,
                                        "precision": 11,
                                        "calendarmodel": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985727"
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        ],
                        "P854": [
                            {
                                "hash": "a50dbc1aef409d86085fbdaea6bec0cd88a22e33",
                                "datatype": "url",
                                "property": "P854",
                                "snaktype": "value",
                                "datavalue": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "value": "https://lortelaward.com/projection-design/"
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    "snaks-order": [
                        "P854",
                        "P813"
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "P856": [
        {
            "id": "Q125749699$59E95D5F-7BF5-4696-9FBE-2C66D6786E4A",
            "rank": "normal",
            "type": "statement",
            "mainsnak": {
                "hash": "c8c30592db5d178482f1d4d359f844891d4eef24",
                "datatype": "url",
                "property": "P856",
                "snaktype": "value",
                "datavalue": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "value": "https://lortelaward.com/projection-design"
                }
            },
            "qualifiers": {
                "P407": [
                    {
                        "hash": "daf1c4fcb58181b02dff9cc89deb084004ddae4b",
                        "datatype": "wikibase-item",
                        "property": "P407",
                        "snaktype": "value",
                        "datavalue": {
                            "type": "wikibase-entityid",
                            "value": {
                                "id": "Q1860",
                                "numeric-id": 1860,
                                "entity-type": "item"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                ]
            },
            "qualifiers-order": [
                "P407"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "P2257": [
        {
            "id": "Q125749699$ED5A4746-8F6E-4FEB-A5CD-649E79C2150C",
            "rank": "normal",
            "type": "statement",
            "mainsnak": {
                "hash": "afec4f0d462880430bff0792b28175d1d0e8f114",
                "datatype": "quantity",
                "property": "P2257",
                "snaktype": "value",
                "datavalue": {
                    "type": "quantity",
                    "value": {
                        "unit": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q577",
                        "amount": "+1"
                    }
                }
            },
            "references": [
                {
                    "hash": "7ebe37284df2f5f5c9aefa675efbfbbb34d101a4",
                    "snaks": {
                        "P143": [
                            {
                                "hash": "e4f6d9441d0600513c4533c672b5ab472dc73694",
                                "datatype": "wikibase-item",
                                "property": "P143",
                                "snaktype": "value",
                                "datavalue": {
                                    "type": "wikibase-entityid",
                                    "value": {
                                        "id": "Q328",
                                        "numeric-id": 328,
                                        "entity-type": "item"
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        ],
                        "P813": [
                            {
                                "hash": "6b387a949e9390b39b14f005957c70e689ae060d",
                                "datatype": "time",
                                "property": "P813",
                                "snaktype": "value",
                                "datavalue": {
                                    "type": "time",
                                    "value": {
                                        "time": "+2024-05-02T00:00:00Z",
                                        "after": 0,
                                        "before": 0,
                                        "timezone": 0,
                                        "precision": 11,
                                        "calendarmodel": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985727"
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        ],
                        "P4656": [
                            {
                                "hash": "d00c320ae1eb924ef33e892fff66797c11af8e17",
                                "datatype": "url",
                                "property": "P4656",
                                "snaktype": "value",
                                "datavalue": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "value": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Lortel_Awards"
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    "snaks-order": [
                        "P143",
                        "P4656",
                        "P813"
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Main Menu

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Projection Design

Winners and nominees

2010s

2020s

Multiple nominations

See also

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Projection Design

Winners and nominees

2010s

2020s

Multiple nominations

See also

See Also

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work

37th Lucille Lortel Awards

41st Lucille Lortel Awards

40th Lucille Lortel Awards