1990 Drama Desk Awards

Winners and nominees from the Drama Desk Awards.

1990 Drama Desk Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
	Those Were the Days	Those Were the Days
Outstanding Actor - Musical	Paul Hipp	Buddy
Outstanding Actor - Musical	Mike Burstyn	The Rothschilds
Outstanding Actor - Play	Alec Baldwin	Prelude to a Kiss
Outstanding Actor - Play	Colin Stinton	Some Americans Abroad
Outstanding Actor - Play	Gary Sinise	The Grapes of Wrath
Outstanding Actor - Play	Charles S. Dutton	The Piano Lesson
Outstanding Actor - Play	Sab Shimono	The Wash

Outstanding Actress - Musical	Mary Louise Parker	Prelude to a Kiss
Outstanding Actress - Musical	June Angela	Shogun

Outstanding Actress - Musical	S. Epatha Merkerson	The Piano Lesson
Outstanding Actress - Play	Audra Lindley	About Time
Outstanding Actress - Play	Mary Louise Parker	Prelude to a Kiss
Outstanding Actress - Play	Stockard Channing	Six Degrees of Separation
Outstanding Actress - Play	S. Epatha Merkerson	The Piano Lesson
Outstanding Book of a Musical	John Weidman	Assassins


Outstanding Choreography	Patricia Zipprodt	Shogun
Outstanding Choreography	Toni Leslie-James, Stephen Kaplin, Barbara Pollitt	The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Outstanding Costume Design	Jess Goldstien	When She Danced
Outstanding Costume Design	Jessica Rubinstein	When She Danced

Outstanding Director - Musical	James Hammerstien	The Sound of Music
Outstanding Director - Musical	Jerry Zaks	Assassins
Outstanding Director - Musical	Lisa Peterson	The Waves
Outstanding Director - Play	Michael Grief	Machinal

Outstanding Director - Play	Jerry Zaks	Six Degrees of Separation
Outstanding Director - Play	Roger Mitchell	Some Americans Abroad
Outstanding Director - Play	Frank Galati	The Grapes of Wrath
Outstanding Director - Play	Lloyd Richards	The Piano Lesson
Outstanding Director - Play	Norman Rene	Prelude to a Kiss
Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical	Lee Wilkof	Assassins

Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical	Laurence Guittard	The Sound of Music
Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical	Bruce Adler	Those Were the Days


Outstanding Featured Actor - Play	Josef Sommer	Hamlet
Outstanding Featured Actor - Play	Marcus Chong	Stand-Up Tragedy
Outstanding Featured Actor - Play	Charles Durning	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Outstanding Featured Actor - Play	Francis Guinan	The Grapes of Wrath
Outstanding Featured Actor - Play	Rocky Carroll	The Piano Lesson
Outstanding Featured Actress - Play	Deirdre O'Connell	Love and Anger
Outstanding Featured Actress - Play	Marcia Jean Kurtz	When She Danced
Outstanding Featured Actress - Play	Kate Burton	Some Americans Abroad


Outstanding Lighting Design	Andrew Bridge	Aspects of Love
Outstanding Lighting Design	Jules Fisher	Hamlet
Outstanding Lighting Design	Kenneth Posner	Machinal
Outstanding Lighting Design	Don Holder	The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Outstanding Lighting Design	Kevin Rigdon	The Grapes of Wrath
Outstanding Lyrics	Stephen Sondheim	Assassins
Outstanding Lyrics	William Finn	Falsettoland
Outstanding Music	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Aspects of Love


Outstanding Music	William Finn	Falsettoland
Outstanding Music	David Bucknam	The Waves

Outstanding Musical	Aspects of Love	Aspects of Love
Outstanding Musical	Assassins	Assassins
Outstanding Musical Revue	Forever Plaid	Forever Plaid
Outstanding Musical Revue	Smoke on the Mountain	Smoke on the Mountain
Outstanding Musical Revue	Those Were the Days	Those Were the Days
Outstanding New Play	John Guare	Six Degrees of Separation

Outstanding New Play	August Wilson	The Piano Lesson
Outstanding New Play	Philip Kan Gotanda	The Wash
Outstanding New Play	Craig Lucas	Prelude to a Kiss
Outstanding One Person Show	Kathryn Grody	A Mom's Life

Outstanding One Person Show	Eric Bogosian	Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
Outstanding Orchestration	David Cullen	Aspects of Love
Outstanding Revival	Camille	Camille
Outstanding Revival	Hamlet	Hamlet


Outstanding Revival of a Musical	The Sound of Music	The Sound of Music
Outstanding Set Design	Kevin Rigdon	The Grapes of Wrath
Outstanding Set Design	David Gallo	Machinal
Outstanding Sound Design - Play	John Gromada, John Gromada	Machinal
Special Awards	The Fund for New American Plays	The Fund for New American Plays
Special Awards	Jules Styne	Jules Styne

Special Awards	Kevin Haney	Kevin Haney

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1990 Drama Desk Awards

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