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Other top winners include All My Sons, The Cher Show, The Ferryman, King Kong, and Tootsie!

The Outer Critics Circle Award winners have been announced! The big winner this year is Hadestown, taking home 6 awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Outstanding New Score, and Amber Gray for Outstanding Featured Actress!

Other shows with multiple awards included All My Sons, The Cher Show, The Ferryman, King Kong, and Tootsie. King Kong also took home a special achievement award for its puppetry team.

Stage favorites Jenn Colella, Tina Fey, Hamish Linklater, Lindsay Mendez, and Lily Rabe will serve as gala award presenters at the upcoming 69th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony on Thursday, May 23rd at 3:00 PM at the legendary Sardi's Restaurant.

Check out the full list of winners below!

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY

The Ferryman *WINNER*

Ink

Network

To Kill a Mockingbird

What the Constitution Means to Me

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL

Be More Chill

Hadestown *WINNER*

Head Over Heels

The Prom

Tootsie

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY

Fairview

The House That Will Not Stand

Lewiston / Clarkston

The Light

White Noise *WINNER*

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL

The Beast in the Jungle

Black Light

Girl from the North Country *WINNER*

The Hello Girls

Midnight at the Never Get

OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Robert Horn - Tootsie *WINNER*

Conor McPherson - Girl from the North Country

Peter Mills and Cara Reichel - The Hello Girls

Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown

Jeff Whitty and James Magruder - Head Over Heels

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE (THE MARJORIE GUNNER AWARD) (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin - The Prom

Joe Iconis - Be More Chill

Peter Mills - The Hello Girls

Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown *WINNER*

David Yazbek - Tootsie

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

All My Sons *WINNER*

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

Juno and the Paycock

Our Lady of 121st Street

The Waverly Gallery

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Carmen Jones

Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish) *WINNER*

Kiss Me, Kate

Oklahoma!

Smokey Joe's Café

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY (THE Lucille Lortel AWARD)

Rupert Goold - Ink

Sam Mendes - The Ferryman *WINNER*

Jack O'Brien - All My Sons

Bartlett Sher - To Kill a Mockingbird

Logan Vaughn - The Light

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL

Rachel Chavkin - Hadestown *WINNER*

Scott Ellis - Tootsie

Daniel Fish - Oklahoma!

Joel Grey - Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish)

Cara Reichel - The Hello Girls

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER

Warren Carlyle - Kiss Me, Kate *WINNER*

Christopher Gattelli - The Cher Show

Denis Jones - Tootsie

David Neumann - Hadestown

Sergio Trujillo - Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations

OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN (Play or Musical)

Beowulf Boritt - Bernhardt/Hamlet

Bunny Christie - Ink

Rachel Hauck - Hadestown

Rob Howell - The Ferryman

David Korins - Beetlejuice *WINNER*

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN (Play or Musical)

Rob Howell - The Ferryman

Bob Mackie - The Cher Show *WINNER*

William Ivey Long - Beetlejuice

William Ivey Long - Tootsie

Arianne Phillips - Head Over Heels

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN (Play or Musical)

Neil Austin - Ink

Stacey Derosier - Lewiston / Clarkston

Bradley King - Hadestown *WINNER*

Jason Lyons - Sugar in Our Wounds

Peter Mumford - King Kong

OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN (Play or Musical)

Peter England - King Kong *WINNER*

Alex Basco Koch - Be More Chill

Peter Nigrini - Beetlejuice

Jeff Sugg - All My Sons

Tal Yarden - Network

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN (Play or Musical)

John Gromada - All My Sons

Peter Hylenski - King Kong *WINNER*

Drew Levy - Oklahoma!

Eric Sleichim - Network

Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz - Hadestown

OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS

Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose - Hadestown

Simon Hale - Girl from the North Country

Joseph Joubert - Carmen Jones

Daniel Kluger - Oklahoma! *WINNER*

Harold Wheeler - Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY

McKinley Belcher III - The Light

Bryan Cranston - Network *WINNER*

Daveed Diggs - White Noise

Bill Irwin - On Beckett

Jeremy Pope - Choir Boy

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Glenn Close - Mother of the Maid

Edie Falco - The True

Glenda Jackson - King Lear

Mandi Masden - The Light

Elaine May - The Waverly Gallery *WINNER*

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Brooks Ashmanskas - The Prom

Reeve Carney - Hadestown

Damon Daunno - Oklahoma!

Santino Fontana - Tootsie *WINNER*

Steven Skybell - Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Stephanie J. Block - The Cher Show *WINNER*

Kelli O'Hara - Kiss Me, Kate

Beth Leavel - The Prom

Anika Noni Rose - Carmen Jones

Mare Winningham - Girl from the North Country

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY

Bertie Carvel - Ink

John Clay III - Choir Boy

Hugh Dancy - Apologia

John Procaccino - Downstairs

Benjamin Walker - All My Sons *WINNER*

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Joan Allen - The Waverly Gallery

Stephanie Berry - Sugar in Our Wounds

Fionnula Flanagan - The Ferryman

Harriett D. Foy - The House That Will Not Stand

Celia Keenan-Bolger - To Kill a Mockingbird *WINNER*

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

John Behlmann - Tootsie

André De Shields - Hadestown *WINNER*

Reg Rogers - Tootsie

George Salazar - Be More Chill

Ephraim Sykes - Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Amber Gray - Hadestown *WINNER*

Leslie Kritzer - Beetlejuice

Bonnie Milligan - Head Over Heels

Sarah Stiles - Tootsie

Ali Stroker - Oklahoma!

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE

Mike Birbiglia - The New One *WINNER*

Maddie Corman - Accidentally Brave

Jake Gyllenhaal - A Life

Carey Mulligan - Girls & Boys

Renée Taylor - My Life on a Diet

John Gassner PLAYWRITING AWARD

(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)

Jeremy O. Harris - Slave Play

Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell - The Lifespan of a Fact *WINNER*

Donja R. Love - Sugar in Our Wounds

Ming Peiffer - Usual Girls

Charly Evon Simpson - Behind the Sheet

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

The Executive Committee voted and decided upon the presentation of Special Achievement Awards to:

The Puppetry Team That Created and Operates King Kong

This award recognizes the artistry and technical achievement that brings a 2,000-pound gorilla to life:

The York Theatre Company

James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director

Evans Haile, Executive Director

This award is in recognition of 50 years of producing new musicals, as well as classics from the past.

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