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Browse Awards By Year for 1983
| Note: Award winners will appear on a | RED BACKGROUND |
| Awards | Category | Nominee | Show |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Matthew Broderick | Brighton Beach Memoirs |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | James Russo | Extremities |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Jeff Daniels | Johnny Got His Gun |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Remak Ramsay | Quartermaine's Terms |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | John Rubinstein | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Harvey Fierstein | Torch Song Trilogy |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | John Malkovich | True West |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Betty Buckley | Cats |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Mara Beckerman | Charlotte Sweet |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Ellen Greene | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Twiggy | My One and Only |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Natalia Makarova | On Your Toes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Susan Sarandon | Extremities |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Jessica Tandy | Foxfire |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Thuli Dumakude | Poppie Nongena |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Suzanne Bertish | Skirmishes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Colleen Dewhurst | The Queen and the Rebels |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Christine Estabrook | Win/Lose/Draw |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Tommy Tune | My One and Only |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Donald Saddler | On Your Toes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Patricia Zipprodt | Alice in Wonderland |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | John Napier | Cats |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Patricia McGourty | Death of Von Richtofen Witnessed from Earth |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Rita Ryack | My One and Only |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Zack Brown | On Your Toes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Howard Ashman | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | George Abbott | On Your Toes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Trevor Nunn | All's Well That Ends Well |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Robert Allan Ackerman | Extremities |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | George C. Scott | Present Laughter |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Arthur Sherman | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Michael Bennett | Third Street |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Gary Sinise | True West |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Franc Luz | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Charles "Honi" Coles | My One and Only |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Bruce Hubbard | Show Boat |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Randle Mell | The Cradle Will Rock |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Alan Feinstein | A View from the Bridge |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Stephen Moore | All's Well That Ends Well |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Nathan Lane | Present Laughter |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Stephen Joyce | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Stephen D. Newman | The Misanthrope |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Frank Maraden | The Workroom |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Rebecca Wright | Merlin |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Karla Burns | Show Boat |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Michele-Denise Woods | The Cradle Will Rock |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Kate McGregor-Stewart | Beyond Therapy |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Dana Ivey | Present Laughter & Quartermaine's Terms |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Judith Ivey | Steaming |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Anne Twomey | Vieux Carre |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Maureen Anderman | You Can't Take It with You |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | David Heresy | Cats |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Richard Nelson | Death of Von Richtofen as Witnessed from Earth |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Ken Billington | Foxfire |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Mal Sturchio | Johnny Got His Gun |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Allen Lee Hughes | K2 |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | T.S. Eliot | Cats |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Michael Colby | Charlotte Sweet |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Des McAnuff | Death of Von Richtofen Witnessed from Earth |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Howard Ashman | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Larry Grossman | A Doll's Life |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Cats |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Gerald Jay Markee | Charlotte Sweet |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Des McAnuff | Death of Von Richtofen Witnessed from Earth |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Alan Menken | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | My One and Only | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | Little Shop of Horrors | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Michael Gibson | My One and Only |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Hans Spialek | On Your Toes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Neil Simon | Brighton Beach Memoirs |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | David Mamet | Edmund |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | William Mastrosimone | Extremities |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Jonathan Reynolds | Geniuses |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Harvey Fierstein | Torch Song Trilogy |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Sam Shepard | True West |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Projection Design | Ron Taylor | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Projection Design | Doug Henning | Merlin |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | All's Well That Ends Well | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | On Your Toes | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Present Laughter | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | The Cradle Will Rock | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Vieux Carre | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | John Gunter | All's Well That Ends Well |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Douglas Schmidt | Death of Von Richtofen Witnessed from Earth |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Marjorie Bradley Kellogg | Extremities |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Andrew Jackness | Geniuses |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Kert Lundell | Johnny Got His Gun |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Ming Cho Lee | K2 |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Marjorie Bradley Kellogg | Present Laughter |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Marjorie Bradley Kellogg | Steaming |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Andrew Jackness | Whodunnit |
| Drama Desk Awards | Special Awards | Douglas Watt (The Daily News) | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Special Awards | Richard Wilbur |
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