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

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

Jeffrey Kuhn

Jeffrey Kuhn

Leslie Kritzer

Leslie Kritzer

Timothy R. Mackabee

Timothy R. Mackabee

Alfred Uhry and Martha Clarke

Alfred Uhry and Martha Clarke

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

Adam Kantor and Ben Rappaport

Kathryn Erbe and David Harbour

The opening number dancers

Alana Arenas

Alana Arenas

Danielle Brooks, Matt McGrath and Cynthia Erivo

Matt McGrath

Matt McGrath

Adam Kantor, Cynthia Erivo, Danielle Brooks and Jonathan Groff

Danielle Brooks and Jonathan Groff

Anita Yavich

Paul Alexander Nolan, Anita Yavich and Hannah Elless

Suzan-Lori Parks

Norm Lewis and Suzan-Lori Parks

Annette O'Toole and Michael Shannon

Annette O'Toole

Steven Pasquale and Phillipa Soo

Daveed Diggs and Steven Pasquale

Oscar Eustis, George Brant, Michael Urie and Ryan Spahn

Oscar Eustis and George Brant

Jenny Jules, Peter Nigrini and Jason Butler Harner

Peter Nigrini

Peter Nigrini and Oscar Eustis

Martha Clarke

Ana Villafane and Martha Clarke

Liesl Tommy and Marlo Thomas

Liesl Tommy

Todd Haimes, Alfred Uhry, Alex Timbers and Robert Waldman

Jefferson Mays and Marin Ireland

Phylicia Rashad

Phylicia Rashad and Carol Kane

James Houghton

James Houghton and Laura Linney

Laura Linney

The team from FUTURITY

Rajiv Joseph

John Gallagher, Jr. and Rajiv Joseph