Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play

The Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Performance by a Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play is an honor presented at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, a ceremony established in 1950 for excellence in Off-Broadway productions, to actors for quality leading roles in a play, whether a new production or a revival. The awards replaced the former awards for Outstanding Featured Actor and Actress in a Play in 2022, voting to establish distinct Broadway and Off-Broadway gender-neutral categories.

Award winners and nominees

2020s

Year

Actor

Role(s)

Project

2023

K. Todd Freeman

Downstate

Dee

Francis Guinan

Downstate

Fred

Susanna Guzmán

Ivy

Glenn Davis

Gio

Veanne Cox

Wedding Band

Herman's Mother

2024

Jay O. Sanders

Primary Trust

Clay

Conrad Ricamora

Oh, Mary!

Mary's Husband

Bubba Weiler

Swing State

Ryan

April Matthis

Primary Trust

Wally's Waiter/Corrina/Bank Customers

Gus Birney

Our Class

Dora

2025

Michael Gregory

Table 17

River/Eric/Others

Frank Wood

Hold On to Me Darling

Mitch

Richard Schiff

Becoming Eve

Tati

Sean Bell

The Beacon

Donnal

Betsy Aidem

Liberation

Margie

2026

Caroline Aaron

The Reservoir

Beverly

Brian d'Arcy James

Eurydice

Eurydice's Father

River Lipe-Smith

Caroline

Caroline

Andrea Martin

Meet the Cartozians

Markrid Cartozian

Malcolm Mays

The Brothers Size

Elegba

See also

  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play
  • Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play