1976 Drama Desk Awards
Winners and nominees from the Drama Desk Awards.
1976 Drama Desk Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Jerry Orbach | Chicago |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Ian Richardson | My Fair Lady |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Nicol Williamson | Rex |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Raul Julia | The Threepenny Opera |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Roy Poole | A Memory of Two Mondays |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Frank Quinn | Lamppost Reunion |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Edward Hermann | Mrs. Warren's Profession |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Peter Evans | Streamers |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Richard Kiley | The Heiress |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Louis Zorich | They Knew What They Wanted |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | John Wood | Travesties |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Ben Gazzara | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Donna McKechnie | A Chorus Line |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Kelly Bishop | A Chorus Line |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Penny Fuller | Rex |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Patti LuPone | The Robber Bridegroom |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Elizabeth Wilson | The Threepenny Opera |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Virginia Seidel | Very Good Eddie |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Meryl Streep | 27 Wagons Full of Cotton/Memory of Two Mondays |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Meryl Streep | Secret Service |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Rosemary Harris | The Royal Family |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Lois Nettleton | They Knew What They Wanted |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Meryl Streep | Trelawny of the "Wells" |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Fran Brill | What Every Woman Knows |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Tovah Feldshuh | Yentl |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Nicholas Dante, James Kirkwood | A Chorus Line |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | John Weidman | Pacific Overtures |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Alfred Uhry | The Robber Bridegroom |
| Outstanding Choreography | Michael Bennett | A Chorus Line |
| Outstanding Choreography | Billy Wilson | Bubbling Brown Sugar |
| Outstanding Choreography | Patricia Birch | Pacific Overtures |
| Outstanding Choreography | Donald Saddler | The Robber Bridegroom |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Albert Wolsky | |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Bernard Johnson | Bubbling Brown Sugar |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Florence Klotz | Pacific Overtures |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Ann Roth | The Royal Family |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Theoni V. Aldredge | Trelawny of the "Wells" |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Michael Bennett | A Chorus Line |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Jerry Adler | My Fair Lady |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Harold Prince | Pacific Overtures |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Gerald Freedman | The Robber Bridegroom |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Richard Foreman | The Threepenny Opera |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Arvin Brown | 27 Wagons Full of Cotton/Memory of Two Mondays |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Tom Signorelli | Lamppost Reunion |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Mike Nichols | Streamers |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Ellis Rabb | The Royal Family |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Stephen Porter | They Knew What They Wanted |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Edward Albee | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Outstanding Feature Actress - Musical | Yentl | Lynn Ann Leveridge |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Barry Preston | Bubbling Brown Sugar |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | George Rose | My Fair Lady |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Haruki Fujimoto | Pacific Overtures |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | James Harder, Travis Hudson | Very Good Eddie |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Leonardo Cimino | A Memory of Two Mondays |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Judd Hirsch | Knock Knock |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Vivian Reed | Bubbling Brown Sugar |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Mary Lou Rosato | The Robber Bridegroom |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Alice Drummond | A Memory of Two Mondays |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Rachel Roberts | Habeas Corpus |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | June Havoc | Habeas Corpus |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Kaiulani Lee | Kennedy's Children |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Toni Darnay | The Heiress |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Leon DiLeone | Angel Street |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Jules Fisher | Chicago |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Thomas Skelton | Legend |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | James Tilton | They Knew What They Wanted |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Robert Ornbo | Travesties |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Ian Calderon | Trelawny of the "Wells" |
| Outstanding Music & Lyrics | Edward Kleban, Marvin Hamlisch | A Chorus Line |
| Outstanding Music & Lyrics | Stephen Sondheim | Pacific Overtures |
| Outstanding Music & Lyrics | Bill Heyer, Hank Beebe | Tuscaloosa's Calling Me ... But I'm Not Going! |
| Outstanding Music & Lyrics | Leonard Bernstein | 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue |
| Outstanding New Play | Robert Patrick | Kennedy's Children |
| Outstanding New Play | Louis La Russo II | Lamppost Reunion |
| Outstanding New Play | Tom Cole | Medal of Honor Rag |
| Outstanding New Play | David Rabe | Streamers |
| Outstanding New Play | Jack Heifner | Vanities |
| Outstanding Revival | My Fair Lady | |
| Outstanding Revival | The Royal Family | |
| Outstanding Revival | Trelawny of the "Wells" | |
| Outstanding Revival | Very Good Eddie | |
| Outstanding Revival | What Every Woman Knows | |
| Outstanding Revival | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
| Outstanding Revival | They Knew What They Wanted | |
| Outstanding Set Design | James Tilton | |
| Outstanding Set Design | Santo Loquasto | Kennedy's Children |
| Outstanding Set Design | John Lee Beatty | Knock Knock |
| Outstanding Set Design | Robert U. Taylor | Lamppost Reunion |
| Outstanding Set Design | Santo Loquasto | Legend |
| Outstanding Set Design | Boris Aronson | Pacific Overtures |
| Special Award | Hartman Theatre Company, Queens Theater in the Park | |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Linda Hopkins | Me and Bessie |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Julie Harris | The Belle of Amherst |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | The Norman Conquests | |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | The Robber Bridegroom | |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | The Threepenny Opera | |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Yentl | |
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