L Morgan Lee

L Morgan Lee is an American theatre actress and singer. She was nominated for the 2022 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in A Strange Loop on Broadway, and was credited as the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for a Tony Award.^[1][2]

L Morgan Lee
Lee at a Paper event in November 2022
Education	University of the Arts[1]
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer
Website	lmorganlee.com

Early life

Lee grew up in suburban Maryland.^[3] She began performing in her early childhood by singing in her nursery school's talent show. She studied musical theater at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.^[1]

Career

Lee joined A Strange Loop in 2015 after Michael R. Jackson reached out to her on Facebook and asked her to do a reading.^[3] She continued with the show during its off-Broadway premiere at Playwrights Horizons, playing the role of Thought 1, where she won an Obie Award and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical.^[4][5] In 2021, Lee portrayed Lili Elbe in a workshop for a musical adaptation of The Danish Girl in England.^[6]

Lee transferred with A Strange Loop to Broadway in 2022. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical at the 75th Tony Awards, becoming the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for a Tony.^[1][2]

In 2025, it was announced Lee would direct a one-night benefit concert of The Drowsy Chaperone at Carnegie Hall with a cast composed entirely of trans and non-binary performers.^[7]

Discography

Cast & concept recordings

• A Strange Loop – Original Cast Recording (2019), Grammy Award nominated album^[8]
• Soft Butter – Concept Recording (2019)

Collaborative projects

• The Broadway Rainbow Lullaby Album - "The Dream" (2021)
• Her Sound: Volume 3 - "Nazareth" (2022)
• Album (Joe Iconis) - "Play the Princess" (2022)

Stage

Key

†	Denotes upcoming roles

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref
2019	A Strange Loop	Thought 1	Off-Broadway, Playwrights Horizons	[9]
2021			Regional, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company	[10]
	The Danish Girl	Lili Elbe	Workshop, New Theatre Peterborough	[6]
2022	A Strange Loop	Thought 1	Broadway, Lyceum Theatre	[11]
2024	A Complicated Woman	Nina Mae	Regional, Goodspeed Musicals	[12]
	Fiorello!	Mitzi Travers	Concert, Classic Stage Company	[13]
2025	All Shook Up	Sylvia	Regional, Goodspeed Musicals	[14]
	The Drowsy Chaperone†	Director	Benefit Concert, Carnegie Hall	[7]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Show	Result	Ref
2020	Lucille Lortel Awards	Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical	A Strange Loop	Nominated	[5]
	Obie Award	Special Citation		Won	[4]
2022	Tony Award	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical		Nominated	[2][15]
	Drama League Award	Distinguished Performance		Nominated	[16]
2024	HRC Visibility Award			Won	[17]