Winner 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Best Play Winner 2013 Drama Desk Special Award for Significant Contribution to Theatre Winner 2013 GLAAD Media Award, Outstanding New York Theatre Nominee 2013 Drama League Award, Outstanding Production of a Play Nominee 2013 Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play Nominee 2013 John Gassner Award, Oustanding New American Play On the outskirts of Mormon Country, Idaho, a six hundred pound recluse hides away in his apartment eating himself to death. Desperate to reconnect with his long-estranged daughter, he reaches out to her, only to find a viciously sharp-tongued and wildly unhappy teen. Big-hearted and fiercely funny, The Whale tells the story of a man's last chance at redemption, and of finding beauty in the most unexpected places.