diff --git a/packages/playwright/src/common/config.ts b/packages/playwright/src/common/config.ts
index f639876e3f..6077d70b7e 100644
--- a/packages/playwright/src/common/config.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright/src/common/config.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ export class FullConfigInternal {
   testIdMatcher?: Matcher;
   defineConfigWasUsed = false;
   shardingMode: Exclude<PlaywrightTestConfig['shardingMode'], undefined>;
+  lastRunFile: string | undefined;
   lastRunInfo?: LastRunInfo;
 
   constructor(location: ConfigLocation, userConfig: Config, configCLIOverrides: ConfigCLIOverrides) {
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ export class FullConfigInternal {
       webServer: null,
     };
     this.shardingMode = takeFirst(configCLIOverrides.shardingMode, userConfig.shardingMode, 'partition');
+    this.lastRunFile = configCLIOverrides.lastRunFile;
     for (const key in userConfig) {
       if (key.startsWith('@'))
         (this.config as any)[key] = (userConfig as any)[key];
diff --git a/packages/playwright/src/common/ipc.ts b/packages/playwright/src/common/ipc.ts
index 127ec91343..8cf00e677b 100644
--- a/packages/playwright/src/common/ipc.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright/src/common/ipc.ts
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ export type ConfigCLIOverrides = {
   additionalReporters?: ReporterDescription[];
   shard?: { current: number, total: number };
   shardingMode?: PlaywrightTestConfig['shardingMode'];
+  lastRunFile?: string;
   timeout?: number;
   ignoreSnapshots?: boolean;
   updateSnapshots?: 'all'|'none'|'missing';
diff --git a/packages/playwright/src/program.ts b/packages/playwright/src/program.ts
index 6ec378e696..285fb576d0 100644
--- a/packages/playwright/src/program.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright/src/program.ts
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ function overridesFromOptions(options: { [key: string]: any }): ConfigCLIOverrid
     reporter: resolveReporterOption(options.reporter),
     shard: shardPair ? { current: shardPair[0], total: shardPair[1] } : undefined,
     shardingMode: options.shardingMode ? options.shardingMode : undefined,
+    lastRunFile: options.lastRunFile ? path.resolve(process.cwd(), options.lastRunFile) : undefined,
     timeout: options.timeout ? parseInt(options.timeout, 10) : undefined,
     ignoreSnapshots: options.ignoreSnapshots ? !!options.ignoreSnapshots : undefined,
     updateSnapshots: options.updateSnapshots ? 'all' as const : undefined,
@@ -351,6 +352,7 @@ const testOptions: [string, string][] = [
   ['--headed', `Run tests in headed browsers (default: headless)`],
   ['--ignore-snapshots', `Ignore screenshot and snapshot expectations`],
   ['--last-failed', `Only re-run the failures`],
+  ['--last-run-file', `Path to a json file where the last run information is read from and written to (default: .last-run.json)`],
   ['--list', `Collect all the tests and report them, but do not run`],
   ['--max-failures <N>', `Stop after the first N failures`],
   ['--no-deps', 'Do not run project dependencies'],
diff --git a/packages/playwright/src/runner/runner.ts b/packages/playwright/src/runner/runner.ts
index aa17773876..06d752344e 100644
--- a/packages/playwright/src/runner/runner.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright/src/runner/runner.ts
@@ -160,8 +160,9 @@ async function writeLastRunInfo(testRun: TestRun, status: FullResult['status'])
   if (!project)
     return;
   const outputDir = project.project.outputDir;
-  await fs.promises.mkdir(outputDir, { recursive: true });
-  const lastRunReportFile = path.join(outputDir, '.last-run.json');
+  const lastRunReportFile = testRun.config.lastRunFile || path.join(outputDir, '.last-run.json');
+  const lastRunReportFileDir = path.dirname(lastRunReportFile);
+  await fs.promises.mkdir(lastRunReportFileDir, { recursive: true });
   const failedTests = testRun.rootSuite?.allTests().filter(t => !t.ok()).map(t => t.id);
   const testDurations = testRun.rootSuite?.allTests().reduce((map, t) => {
     if (t.results.length)
@@ -178,7 +179,7 @@ export async function readLastRunInfo(config: FullConfigInternal): Promise<LastR
     return { status: 'passed', failedTests: [] };
   const outputDir = project.project.outputDir;
   try {
-    const lastRunReportFile = path.join(outputDir, '.last-run.json');
+    const lastRunReportFile = config.lastRunFile || path.join(outputDir, '.last-run.json');
     return JSON.parse(await fs.promises.readFile(lastRunReportFile, 'utf8')) as LastRunInfo;
   } catch {
   }