2003 Drama Desk Awards
Winners and nominees from the Drama Desk Awards.
2003 Drama Desk Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Play | The Beard of Avon | The Beard of Avon |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Tom Wopat | Annie Get Your Gun |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Patrick Wilson | Bright Lights Big City |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Harvey Fierstein | Hairspray |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Martin Short | Little Me |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Antonio Banderas | Nine |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Brent Carver | Parade |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Euan Morton | Taboo |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Hugh Jackman | The Boy From Oz |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Eddie Izzard | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Norbert Leo Butz | Buicks |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Jim Dale | Comedians |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Kevin Kline | Henry IV |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Brian Dennehy | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Daniel Sunjata | Take Me Out |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Simon Russell Beale | Uncle Vanya |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Stephanie D'Abruzzo | Avenue Q |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Ann Duquesnay | Cookin' at the Cookery |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Bernadette Peters | Gypsy |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth | Wicked |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Jayne Atkinson | Enchanted April |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Marylouise Burke | Kimberly Akimbo |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Vanessa Redgrave | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Eileen Atkins | The Retreat from Moscow |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Claire Higgins | Vincent in Brixton |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Dael Orlandersmith | Yellowman |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Jeff Whitty | Avenue Q |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Mark O'Donnell, Thomas Meehan | Hairspray |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Winnie Holzman | Wicked |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Tim Acito, Alexander Dinelaris | Zanna, Don't! |
| Outstanding Choreography | Anthony van Laast | Bombay Dreams |
| Outstanding Choreography | Jerry Mitchell | Hairspray |
| Outstanding Choreography | Ken Roberson | Harlem Song |
| Outstanding Choreography | Jerry Mitchell | Never Gonna Dance |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Eiko Ishioka | Cirque du Soleil: Varekai |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Jess Goldstein | Enchanted April |
| Outstanding Costume Design | William Ivey Long | Hairspray |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Michael Bottari, Ronald Case | Shanghai Moon |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Susan Hilferty | Wicked |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Jack O'Brien | Hairspray |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | David Leveaux | Nine |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Joe Mantello | Wicked |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Jack O'Brien | Henry IV (LCT) |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Moises Kaufman | I Am My Own Wife |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Robert Falls | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Hilary Adams | Moby Dick (Works Productions) |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Our Lady of 121st Street |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Joe Mantello | Take Me Out |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Sam Mendes | Uncle Vanya |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Marc Kudisch | Assassins |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Joel Blum | Golf: The Musical |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | John Dossett | Gypsy |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Corey Reynolds | Hairspray |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Jeffrey Carlson, Raul Esparza | Taboo |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Mitchel David Federan | The Boy From Oz |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Ned Beatty | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Michael Berry | Moby Dick (Works Productions) |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Walter Bobbie | Polish Joke |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | T.R. Knight | Scattergood |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Denis O'Hare, Frederick Weller | Take Me Out |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Aidan Gillen | The Caretaker |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Debra Walton | Cookin' at the Cookery |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Kerry Butler | Hairspray |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Alix Korey | Listen to My Heart |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Chita Rivera, Mary Stuart Masterson, Jane Krakowski | Nine |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Isabel Keating | The Boy From Oz |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Jennifer Simard | The Thing About Men |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Sally Mayes | Urban Cowboy |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Margo Martindale | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Jeanine Serralles | Hold Please |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Nancy Opel | Polish Joke |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Christine Ebersole, Lynn Redgrave | Talking Heads |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Mary Louise Wilson | The Beard of Avon |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Helen McCrory | Uncle Vanya |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Brian MacDevitt | Henry IV |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | David Lander | I Am My Own Wife |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Donald Holder | Observe the Sons of Ulster |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Kevin Adams | Take Me Out |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | TJ Gerckens | The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Donald Holder | The Violet Hour |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Peter Mumford | Vincent in Brixton |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Kenneth Posner | Wicked |
| Outstanding Lyric | Tim Acito | Zanna, Don't! |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx | Avenue Q |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Sean Hartley | Cupid and Psyche |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman | Hairspray |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Boy George | Taboo |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Stephen Schwartz | Wicked |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Alexander Dinelaris | Zanna, Don't! |
| Outstanding Music | Marc Shaiman | Hairspray |
| Outstanding Music | Robert Lopez | Jeff Marx - Avenue Q |
| Outstanding Music | Boy George | Taboo |
| Outstanding Music | Tim Acito | Zanna, Don't! |
| Outstanding Musical | Avenue Q | Avenue Q |
| Outstanding Musical | Hairspray | Hairspray |
| Outstanding Musical | Wicked | Wicked |
| Outstanding Musical | Zanna, Don't! | Zanna, Don't! |
| Outstanding One-Person Solo Performance | Stephen Adly Guirgis | Our Lady of 121st Street |
| Outstanding One-Person Solo Performance | Jay DiPietro | Peter and Vandy |
| Outstanding One-Person Solo Performance | Alan Bennett | Talking Heads |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Harold Wheeler | Hairspray |
| Outstanding Orhcestrations | Harold Wheeler | Never Gonna Dance |
| Outstanding Orhcestrations | William David Brohn | Wicked |
| Outstanding Play | Humble Boy | Humble Boy |
| Outstanding Play | I Am My Own Wife | I Am My Own Wife |
| Outstanding Play | Moby Dick | Moby Dick |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Big River | Big River |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Gypsy | Gypsy |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Bonnie Comley | Gypsy |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Nine | Nine |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Henry IV | Henry IV |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Uncle Vanya | Uncle Vanya |
| Outstanding Set Design - Musical | Stephane Roy | Cirque du Soleil: Varekai |
| Outstanding Set Design - Musical | David Rockwell | Hairspray |
| Outstanding Set Design - Musical | Riccardo Hernandez, Batwin | Radiant Baby |
| Outstanding Set Design - Play | B.T. Whitehall | Shanghai Moon |
| Outstanding Set Design - Play | Scott Pask | Take Me Out |
| Outstanding Set Designs - Musical | Eugene Lee | Wicked |
| Outstanding Set Designs - Play | Ralph Funicello | Henry IV (LCT) |
| Outstanding Set Designs - Play | Derek McLane | I Am My Own Wife |
| Outstanding Set Designs - Play | Scott Bradley | The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Will Power | Flow |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Tovah Feldshuh | Golda's Balcony |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Jefferson Mays | I Am My Own Wife |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Ben Gazzara | Nobody Don't Like Yogi |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Francois Bergeron | Cirque du Soleil: Varekai |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Mark Bennett | Golda's Balcony |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Mark Bennett | Julius Caesar |
| Outstanding Sound Design | Janet Kalas | Take Me Out |
| Special Awards | Brooklyn Academy of Music, Charles Busch, Geoffrey Johnson, Vincent Liff | |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Todd Robbins | Carnival Knowledge |
| Unique Theatrical Expierence | The Play What I Wrote | The Play What I Wrote |
| Unique Theatrical Expierence | Cirque du Soleil | Varekai |
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