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Photo Coverage: Backstage with the Winners and Presenters of the 2016 Lucille Lortel Awards!

By: May. 02, 2016
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The 2016 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were handed out last night to recipients in 18 categories, with two special awards and two honorary awards also bestowed. The Lortel Awards were distributed in a ceremony at NYU Skirball Center hosted byZachary Levi, star of Broadway's She Loves Me. This year's event was once again a benefit for The Actors Fund. BroadwayWorld is taking to backstage with the evening's winners and presenters below!

Award presenters this year included some of the biggest and brightest stars from stage and screen, including: Whitney Bashor, Matt Bogart, Danielle Brooks, Anna Chlumsky, Daveed Diggs, Hannah Elless, Kathryn Erbe, Cynthia Erivo, John Gallagher, Jr., Renee Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Danai Gurira, David Harbour, Jason Butler Harner, Marin Ireland,Jenny Jules, Carol Kane, Adam Kantor, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Laura Linney, Jefferson Mays,Paul Nolan, Ben Rappaport, Molly Ringwald, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Stark Sands, Michael Shannon, Phillipa Soo, Ryan Spahn, Marlo Thomas, Michael Urie and Ana Villafane.

The Off-Broadway League's Lortel Awards Producing & Administration Committee (Terry Byrne, Denise Cooper, Margaret Cotter, Carol Fishman, George Forbes, Michael Page, Catherine Russell, Lindsey Sag and Seth Shepsle) produces the Lortel Awards ceremony. Acclaimed writer/director Michael Heitzman returned to direct the Lortel Awards for the seventh consecutive year. The Lucille Lortel Awards is produced by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation. Additional support is provided by Theatre Development Fund.

Representatives of the Off-Broadway League, Actors' Equity Association, Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, in addition to theatre journalists and academics and other Off-Broadway professionals, serve on the Voting Committee.

Photo Credit: Jessica Gordon

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Jeffrey Kuhn

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Jeffrey Kuhn

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Leslie Kritzer

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Leslie Kritzer

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Timothy R. Mackabee

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Timothy R. Mackabee

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Alfred Uhry and Martha Clarke

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Alfred Uhry and Martha Clarke

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Andrew Keenan-Boler, Alfred Uhry, Martha Clarke and Rebecca Rittenhouse

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Adam Kantor and Ben Rappaport

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Kathryn Erbe and David Harbour

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The opening number dancers

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Alana Arenas

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Alana Arenas

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Danielle Brooks, Matt McGrath and Cynthia Erivo

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Matt McGrath

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Matt McGrath

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Adam Kantor, Cynthia Erivo, Danielle Brooks and Jonathan Groff

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Danielle Brooks and Jonathan Groff

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Anita Yavich

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Paul Alexander Nolan, Anita Yavich and Hannah Elless

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Suzan-Lori Parks

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Norm Lewis and Suzan-Lori Parks

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Annette O'Toole and Michael Shannon

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Annette O'Toole

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Steven Pasquale and Phillipa Soo

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Daveed Diggs and Steven Pasquale

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Oscar Eustis, George Brant, Michael Urie and Ryan Spahn

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Oscar Eustis and George Brant

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Jenny Jules, Peter Nigrini and Jason Butler Harner

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Peter Nigrini

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Peter Nigrini and Oscar Eustis

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Martha Clarke

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Ana Villafane and Martha Clarke

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Liesl Tommy and Marlo Thomas

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Liesl Tommy

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Todd Haimes, Alfred Uhry, Alex Timbers and Robert Waldman

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Jefferson Mays and Marin Ireland

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Phylicia Rashad

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Phylicia Rashad and Carol Kane

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James Houghton

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James Houghton and Laura Linney

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Laura Linney

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The team from FUTURITY

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Rajiv Joseph

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John Gallagher, Jr. and Rajiv Joseph







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