Laura Benanti & Jason Jones to host 33rd Annual Lortel Awards
The Off-Broadway League has announced that Laura Benanti and Jason Jones will host the 33rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards on Sun May 6 at NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts. Benanti and Jones will join previously announced honorees Eve Ensler (Lifetime Achievement Award), WP Theater (Body of Work Award), and composer Michael Friedman, who will be posthumously inducted onto the Playwrights’ Sidewalk outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre. The Off-Broadway League’s Lortel Awards Producing & Administration Committee (Pamela Adams, Terry Byrne, Margaret Cotter, Carol Fishman, George Forbes, Danielle Karliner Naish, Michael Page, Catherine Russell, Lindsey Sag, Seth Shepsle, and Casey York) produces the Lortel Awards Ceremony. Writer/director Michael Heitzman returns to direct the Lortel Awards for the ninth consecutive year.
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. For more information, please visit www.LortelAwards.org. Press contact: Patrick Chase O'Neil/ID (646/723-3807)...