1999 Drama Desk Awards
Winners and nominees from the Drama Desk Awards.
1999 Drama Desk Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Tom Wopat | Annie Get Your Gun |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Patrick Wilson | Bright Lights Big City |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Brian Dennehy | Death of a Salesman |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Finbar Lynch, Corin Redgrave | Not About Nightingales |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Toby Stephens | Ring Round the Moon |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Bernadette Peters | Annie Get Your Gun |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Marin Mazzie | Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Audra McDonald | Marie Christine |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Sian Phillips | Marlene Marlene |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Lindsay Duncan | Ashes to Ashes |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Elizabeth Franz | Death of a Salesman |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Lynn Thigpen | Jar the Floor |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Judi Dench | Lindsay Duncan |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Swoosie Kurtz | The Mineola Twins |
| Outstanding Choreography | Luis Bravo | |
| Outstanding Choreography | Jody Abrahams, Loukmaan Adams | Kat and the Kings |
| Outstanding Choreography | Kathleen Marshall | Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Choreography | Lynne Taylor-Corbett | Swing! |
| Outstanding Choreography | Garth Fagan | The Lion King |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Martin Pakledinaz | Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Argemina Affonso | Luis Bravo's Forever Tango |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Kevin Pollard | Shockheaded Peter |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Jonathan Bixby, Gregory Gale | The Country Club |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Julie Taymor | The Lion King |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Catherine Zuber | Triumph of Love |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Scott Ellis | 1776 |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Rob Marshall | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Michael Blakemore | Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Julie Taymor | The Lion King |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Michael Mayer | A View from the Bridge |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Daniel Sullivan | Dinner with Friends |
| Outstanding Director - Play | James Houghton | The American Clock |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Gregg Edelman | 1776 |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Alistair Izobell | Kat and the Kings |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Michael Mulheren, Lee Wilkof | Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Max Cassella, Geoffrey Hoyle | The Lion King |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Ron Liebman | A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Matthew Arkin | Dinner with Friends |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Joel Grey | Give Me Your Answer, Do! |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Max Wright | Ivanov |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Philip Seymour Hoffman | The Author's Voice / Imagining Brad |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Harris Yulin | The Diary of Anne Frank |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Harris Yulin | The Price |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Tsidii Le Loka | The Lion King |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Betty Buckley | Triumph of Love |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Allison Janney | A View from the Bridge |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Seana Kofoed | An Experiment with an Air Pump |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Marylouise Burke | Fuddy Meers |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Caroline Seymour | Goose Pimples |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Marian Seldes | Ivanov |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Amy Sedaris | The Country Club |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Linda Lavin | The Diary of Anne Frank |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Phyllis Newman | The Moment When |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Patti LuPone | The Old Neighborhood |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Kenneth Posner | |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Peter Maradudin | Ballad of Yachiyo |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Donald Holder | The Lion King |
| Outstanding Lyric | Gregory Qaiyum, Jason Catalano, Jordan Allen-Dutton | The Bomb-itty of Errors |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Susan Birkenhead | Triumph of Love |
| Outstanding Music | Frank Wildhorn | The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| Outstanding Musical | Luis Bravo's Forever Tango | Luis Bravo's Forever Tango |
| Outstanding Musical | The Lion King | The Lion King |
| Outstanding New Musical | Swing! | Swing! |
| Outstanding New Play | Donald Margulies | Dinner with Friends |
| Outstanding One-Person Solo Performance | Lisa Kron | 2.5 Minute Ride |
| Outstanding One-Person Solo Performance | Laurence Luckinbill | Clarence Darrow Tonight! |
| Outstanding One-Person Solo Performance | Aviva Jane Carlin | Jodie's Body |
| Outstanding One-Person Solo Performance | Alexander H. Cohen | Star Billing |
| Outstanding One-Person Solo Performance | David Hare | Via Dolorosa |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Michael Gibson | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Taliep Peterson | Kat and the Kings |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Don Sebesky | Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Lisandro Adrover | Luis Bravo's Forever Tango |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Harold Wheeler | Swing! |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Robert Elhai, Bruce Fowler, David Metzger | The Lion King |
| Outstanding Play | Douglas Carter Beane | As Bees in Honey Drown |
| Outstanding Play | Richard Greenberg | Three Days of Rain |
| Outstanding Puppet Design | Bruce Schwartz | Ballad of Yachiyo |
| Outstanding Puppet Design | The Big Nazo Studio, The Big Nazo Studio | Jackie: An American Life |
| Outstanding Puppet Design | Basil Twist | Tell Tale |
| Outstanding Puppet Design | Julie Taymor, Michael Curry | The Lion King |
| Outstanding Revival - Musical | Kiss Me, Kate | Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Revival - Play | Arthur Miller | The Price |
| Outstanding Revival-Musical | 1776 | 1776 |
| Outstanding Revival-Musical | Arthur Miller | A View from the Bridge |
| Outstanding Revival-Musical | Cabaret | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Revival-Musical | Anton Chekhov | Ivanov |
| Outstanding Revival-Musical | Arthur Miller | The American Clock |
| Outstanding Revival-Play | Arthur Miller | All My Sons |
| Outstanding Set Design - Musical | Robert Brill | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Set Design - Musical | Graeme Gilmour | Shockheaded Peter |
| Outstanding Set Design - Musical | Julian Crouch | Shockheaded Peter |
| Outstanding Set Design - Musical | Richard Hudson | The Lion King |
| Outstanding Set Design - Play | Loy Arcenas | Ballad of Yachiyo |
| Outstanding Set Design - Play | Neil Patel | Dinner with Friends |
| Outstanding Set Design - Play | Derek McLane | East is East |
| Outstanding Set Design - Play | John Lee Beatty | Ivanov |
| Outstanding Set Design - Play | Chris Barreca | Three Days of Rain |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Barry Humphries | Dame Edna: The Royal Tour |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Mark Setlock | Fully Committed |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Spalding Gray | Morning, Noon and Night |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Mark Bennett | A View from the Bridge |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Thomas Cabannis | Mamba's Daughters |
| Outstanding Sound Design | David Van Tieghem | Scotland Road |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Rob Milburn, Michael Bodeen | Space |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Tony Meola | The Lion King |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Rinde Eckert, Gina Leishman | Therese Raquin |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Darron L. West | Y2K |
| Outstanding Unique Theatrical Experience | Shockheaded Peter | Shockheaded Peter |
| Special Awards | Arthur Miller, The Vineyard Theatre | |
| utstanding Lighting Design | Brian MacDevitt | An Experiment with an Air Pump |
| utstanding Lighting Design | Scott Zielinski | Space |
| utstanding Lighting Design | Robert Perry | The Water Engine |
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