The League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers today announced the nominees for the 18th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. On Monday, April 21st there will be a reception for the nominees at Ruth’s Chris Steak House (148 West 51st Street). On Monday, May 5th the awards will be presented at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street) at 7 PM.

Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme tops the list of shows with multiple nominations, receiving six. Avenue Q and Fifth of July follow with five nominations each; Our Lady of 121st Street and Take Me Out each received four nominations.

2003 LUCILLE LORTEL AWARDS NOMINATIONS AND RECIPIENTS

Dublin Carol

Written by Conor McPherson

Produced by Atlantic Theater Company

Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

Written by Frank McGuinness

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater

Our Lady of 121st Street

Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis

Produced by John Gould Rubin, Ira Pittelman, Robyn Goodman, Ruth Hendel, Daryl Roth and the LAByrinth Theater Company

Hank Williams: Lost Highway

by Randal Myler and Mark Harelik

Produced by Manhattan Ensemble Theater

Radiant Baby

Book by Stuart Ross

Music by Debra Barsha

Lyrics by Ira Gasman, Stuart Ross and Debra Barsha

Produced by The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival

Zanna, Don’t!

Book, music and lyrics by Tim Acito

Additional book and lyrics by Alexander Dinelaris

Produced by Jack M. Dalgleish in association with Stephanie Joel

Burn This

Written by Lanford Wilson

Produced by Signature Theatre Company

Produced by Jack M. Dalgleish in association with Stephanie Joel

Produced by The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival

Comedians

Written by Trevor Griffiths

Produced by The New Group

Don Juan

Written by Molière

Translated by Christopher Hampton

Produced by Theatre for a New Audience

Jo Bonney; Fifth of July

Philip Seymour Hoffman; Our Lady of 121st Street

Joe Mantello; Take Me Out

Nicholas Martin; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

Jason Moore; Avenue Q

Ronald K. Brown; Crowns

Martha Clarke; Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited)

Devanand Janki; Zanna, Don’t!

Ken Roberson; Avenue Q

Fatima Robinson; Radiant Baby

Charles Busch; Shanghai Moon

Jim Dale; Comedians

Edward Norton; Burn This

Jason Petty; Hank Williams: Lost Highway

Daniel Sunjata; Take Me Out

Tovah Feldshuh; Golda’s Balcony

S. Epatha Merkerson; Fucking A

Kate Mulgrew; Tea at Five

Pamela Payton-Wright; Fifth of July

Parker Posey; Fifth of July

Walter Bobbie; Polish Joke

Mos Def; Fucking A

Ron Cephas Jones; Our Lady of 121st Street

Denis O’Hare; Take Me Out

Justin Theroux; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

Anika Larsen; Zanna, Don’t!

Jan Maxwell; My Old Lady

Nancy Opel; Polish Joke

Portia; Our Lady of 121st Street

Daphne Rubin-Vega; Fucking A

Christopher Akerlind; Don Juan

John Lee Beatty; My Old Lady

Alexander Dodge; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

Anna Louizos; Avenue Q

Mark Wendland; The World Over

Michael Bottari and Ronald Case; Shanghai Moon

Susan Hilferty; My Life With Albertine

Paul Tazewell; Boston Marriage

Catherine Zuber; Far Away

Christopher Akerlind; Don Juan

Howell Binkley; Radiant Baby

Donald Holder; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

James F. Ingalls; My Life With Albertine

James Vermeulen; Fifth of July

Paul Arditti; Far Away

Mark Bennett; Golda’s Balcony

Brett Jarvis; Avenue Q

Jerry Yager; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

Outstanding Lifetime Achievement
Stephen Sondheim

Outstanding Body of Work
Vineyard Theatre

Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence
Marian Seldes

Unique Theatrical Experience
The Exonerated

Written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen

Produced by The Culture Project, Dede Harris, Morton Swinsky, Bob Balaban, Harit Allan Buchman in association with Patrick Blake and David Elliott, Jane Bergère, Ruth Hendel and Cheryl Wiesenfeld