1980 Drama Desk Awards
Winners and nominees from the Drama Desk Awards.
1980 Drama Desk Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Jim Dale | Barnum |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Christopher Durang | Das Lusitania Songspiel |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Mandy Patinkin | Evita |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Mickey Rooney | Sugar Babies |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Giorgio Tozzi | The Most Happy Fella |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Jerry Zaks | Tintypes |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | John Rubinstein | Children of a Lesser God |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Charles Brown | Home |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Philip Bosco | Major Barbara |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Gerald Hiken | Strider |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Judd Hirsch | Talley's Folly |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | F. Murray Abraham | Teibele and Her Demon |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Sigourney Weaver | Das Lusitania Songspiel |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Patti LuPone | Evita |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Sandy Duncan | Peter Pan |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Ann Miller | Sugar Babies |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Susan Sarandon | A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Blythe Danner | Betrayal |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Phyllis Frelich | Children of a Lesser God |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Pat Carroll | Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Mary Tyler Moore | Whose Life Is It Anyway? |
| Outstanding Choreography | Tommy Tune | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
| Outstanding Choreography | Joe Layton | Barnum |
| Outstanding Choreography | Larry Fuller | Evita |
| Outstanding Choreography | Mary Kyte | Tintypes |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Tazeena Firth, Timothy O'Brien | Evita |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Pierre Balmain | Happy New Year |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Rostislav Doboujinsky | Heartaches of a Pussycat |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Linda Fisher | Morning's at Seven |
| Outstanding Costume Design | William Ivey Long | The 1940's Radio Hour |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Joe Layton | Barnum |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Harold Prince | Evita |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Walton Jones | The 1940's Radio Hour |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Gary Pearle | Tintypes |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Gordon Davidson | Children of a Lesser God |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Alan Schneider | Loose Ends |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Kevin Conway | Mecca |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Vivian Matalon | Morning's at Seven |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Robert Kalfin, Lynne Gannaway | Strider |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Marshall W. Mason | Talley's Folly |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Bob Gunton | Evita |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Don Novello | Gilda Radner — Live From New York |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Harry Groener, Martin Vidnovic | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Joe Grifasi, Jeff Keller | The 1940's Radio Hour |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | David Dukes, Michael Gross | Bent |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Hansford Rowe | Nuts |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | David Rounds | Morning's at Seven |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Fritz Weaver | The Price |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Doug McClure | The Roast |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Peggy Hewett | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Janie Sell | God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Crissy Wilza | The 1940's Radio Hour |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Carolyn Mignini, Mary Catherine Wright | Tintypes |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Debbie Allen | West Side Story |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Pamela Brook | Goodbye Fidel |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Lois de Banzie | Morning's at Seven |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Mia Dillon | Once a Catholic |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Frances Conroy | Othello |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Dianne Wiest | The Art of Dining |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Tharon Musser | Children of a Lesser God |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | John McLain | Emigres |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | David Hersey | Evita |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Richard Nelson | Morning's at Seven |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Dennis Parichy | Talley's Folly |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Duane Schuler | Teibele and Her Demon |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Tim Rice | Evita |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Steve Brown | Strider |
| Outstanding Music | Cy Coleman | Barnum |
| Outstanding Music | Andrew Lloyd Weber | Evita |
| Outstanding Musical | Barnum | |
| Outstanding Musical | Evita | |
| Outstanding Musical | Sidewalkin' | |
| Outstanding Musical | The 1940's Radio Hour | |
| Outstanding Musical | Tintypes | |
| Outstanding Play | Mark Medoff | Children of a Lesser God |
| Outstanding Play | Samm-Art Williams | Home |
| Outstanding Play | Tom Stoppard | Night and Day |
| Outstanding Play | Lanford Wilson | Talley's Folly |
| Outstanding Play | Eve Le Friedman, Isaac Bashevis Singer | Teibele and Her Demon |
| Outstanding Play | Wolf Mankowitz | The Irish Hebrew Lesson |
| Outstanding Set Design | David Mitchell | Barnum |
| Outstanding Set Design | David Jenkins | I Ought to Be in Pictures & The Art of Dining |
| Outstanding Set Design | William Ritman | Morning's at Seven |
| Outstanding Set Design | Douglas W. Schmidt | Sidewalkin' |
| Outstanding Set Design | John Lee Beatty | Talley's Folly |
| Outstanding Set Design | David Jenkins | The Art of Dining |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Stanley Silverman | Bent |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Norman L. Berman | Strider |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Richard Peaslee | Teibele and Her Demon |
| Special Awards | La MaMa E.T.C., Nancy Marchand, Maureen O'Sullivan, Teresa Wright, Elizabeth Wilson | |
| Special Awards | Morning's at Seven | |
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