The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of music is pleased to announce that alumna Leslie Kritzer (BFA Musical Theatre, 1999) has won a Lucille Lortel Award as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in the Roundabout Theatre revival of The Robber Bridegroom. The Lucille Lortel Awards recognize excellence in New York Off-Broadway theatre and have been awarded since 1986.
Leslie Kritzer and company in The Roundabout Theatre Company’s ‘The Robber Bridegroom.’ Photo by Joan Marcus.
Kritzer has enjoyed mounting success over the years. She recently developed two new Broadway musicals, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock and The Honeymooners playing Alice Kramden opposite Hank Azaria, which will be on Broadway in 2016. She is currently playing Ray Romano’s wife on Vinyl, a new show on HBO.
After graduating from CCM in 1999, Kritzer made her Broadway debut in Hairspray. She then played the role of Serena in Legally Blonde, for which she won the Clarence Derwent Award for most promising performer. She earned a Drama Desk nomination for her role in A Catered Affair, starring opposite Tom Wopat and Faith Prince. In Sondheim on Sondheim on Broadway she starred opposite Vanessa Williams and Barbara Cook and was also seen in Elf, in which she appeared as Jovie opposite Wayne Knight. Kritzer has also appeared in Piece of My Heart at The Signature Theatre, world premieres of Nobody Loves You at Second Stage and The Memory Show at Transport Group, Rooms: A Rock Romance, The Great American Trailer Park Musical and Bat Boy: The Musical. She played Hildy in On the Town for New York City Center Encores! and she was Little Becky in the national tour of Urinetown. Her regional credits include Pop! at Yale Repertory Theatre, Every Tongue Confess at Arena Stage, First You Dream at The Kennedy Center and Funny Girl at Paper Mill Playhouse.
In 2011, CCM recognized Kritzer for her achievements by presenting her with the CCM Musical Theatre Young Alumni Award. This award is presented each year at a performance of the Senior Showcase in Cincinnati sponsored by the Friends of CCM, now known as CCMpower. This award recognizes outstanding professional achievement by a graduate of CCM’s musical theatre program from the past two decades.
You can learn more about the Roundabout Theatre’s production of The Robber Bridegroom here.
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