2012 Drama Desk Awards
Winners and nominees from the Drama Desk Awards.
2012 Drama Desk Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Kevin Earley | Death Takes a Holiday |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Ricky Martin | Evita |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Danny Burstein | Follies |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Raul Esparza | Leap of Faith |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Jeremy Jordan | Newsies The Musical |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Norm Lewis | The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Death of a Salesman |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Claybourne Elder | One Arm |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | James Corden | One Man, Two Guvnors |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Kevin Spacey | Richard III |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Santino Fontana | Sons of the Prophet |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Joseph Franchini | The Navigator |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Hugh Dancy | Venus in Fur |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Kelli O'Hara | Nice Work If You Can Get It |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Molly Ranson | Carrie |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Jan Maxwell, Bernadette Peters | Follies |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Miche Braden | The Devil's Music: The Life & Blues of Bessie Smith |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Audra McDonald | The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Kim Martin-Cotten | A Moon for the Misbegotten |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Sanaa Lathan | By the Way, Meet Vera Stark |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Jennifer Lim | Chinglish |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Tracie Bennett | End of the Rainbow |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Joely Richardson | Side Effects |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Linda Lavin | The Lyons |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Carey Mulligan | Through a Glass Darkly |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Peter Stone | Death Takes a Holidays |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Warren Leight | Leap of Faith |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Thomas Meehan | Death Takes a Holiday |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Janus Cercone | Leap of Faith |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Douglas Carter Beane | Lysistrata Jones |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Joe DiPietro | Nice Work If You Can Get It |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Michael John LaChiusa | Queen of the Mist |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Joy Gregory | The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World |
| Outstanding Choreography | Rob Ashfrod | Evita |
| Outstanding Choreography | Warren Carlyle | Follies |
| Outstanding Choreography | Sergio Trujillo | Leap of Faith |
| Outstanding Choreography | Christopher Gattelli | Newsies The Musical |
| Outstanding Choreography | Kathleen Marshall | Nice Work If You Can Get It |
| Outstanding Choreography | Breandan de Gallai | Noctu |
| Outstanding Costume Design | ESosa | By the Way, Meet Vera Stark |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Gregg Barnes | Follies |
| Outstanding Costume Design | William Ivey Long | Lucky Guy |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Martin Pakledinaz | Nice Work If You Can Get It |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Jessica Pabst | She Kills Monsters |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Doug Hughes | Death Takes a Holiday |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Eric Schaeffer | Follies |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Christopher Ashley | Leap of Faith |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Kathleen Marshall | Nice Work If You Can Get It |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | John Tiffany | Once |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Jack Cummings III | Queen of the Mist |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Jo Bonney | By the Way, Meet Vera Stark |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Mike Nichols | Death of a Salesman |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Sam Mendes | Richard III |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Ed Sylvanus Iskandar | These Seven Sicknesses |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | David Cromer | Tribes |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Tony Speciale | Unnatural Acts |
| Outstanding Ensemble Performance | Maryann Plunkett, J. Smith-Cameron, Jay O. Sanders, Laila Robins, Shuler Hensley, Jon DeVries | Sweet and Sad |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Matt Cavenaugh | Death Takes a Holiday |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Michael Cerveris | Evita |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Michael McGrath | Nice Work If You Can Get It |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Andrew Samonsky | Queen of the Mist |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Patrick Page | Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Phillip Boykin | The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Jefferson Mays | Blood and Gifts |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Bill Camp | Death of a Salesman |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Bill Irwin | King Lear |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Tom Edden | One Man, Two Guvnors |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Morgan Spector | Russian Transport |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Jim Dale | The Road to Mecca |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Will Rogers | Unnatural Acts |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Melissa van der Schyff | Bonnie & Clyde |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Marin Mazzie | Carrie |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Elaine Paige | Follies |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Judy Kaye | Nice Work If You Can Get It |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Jessie Mueller | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Sarah Sokolovic | The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Joaquina Kalukango | The Hurt Village |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Anna Camp | All New People |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Stephanie J. Block, Kimberly Hebert Gregory | By the Way, Meet Vera Stark |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Angela Lansbury | Gore Vidal's The Best Man |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Judith Light | Other Desert Cities |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Lisa Joyce | The Ugly One |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Brian MacDevitt | Death of a Salesman |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Kenneth Posner | Death Takes a Holiday |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Neil Austin | Evita |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Paul Pyant | Richard III |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Michael John LaChiusa | Queen of the Mist |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Joy Gregory, Gunnar Madsen | The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Don Black | Bonnie & Clyde |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Maury Yeston | Death Takes a Holiday |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Jack Feldman | Newsies The Musical |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Glen Hansard and Marketa lrqlova | Once |
| Outstanding Music | Maury Yeston | Death Takes a Holiday |
| Outstanding Music | Marketa Irglova | Once |
| Outstanding Music | Michael John LaChiusa | Queen of the Mist |
| Outstanding Music | Frank Wildhorn | Bonnie & Clyde |
| Outstanding Music | Alan Menken | Leap of Faith |
| Outstanding Music | Alan Menken | Newsies The Musical |
| Outstanding Music | Glen Hansard | Once |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Tom Kitt | All's Well That Ends Well |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Mark Bennett | An Iliad |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik | Carson McCullers Talks About Love |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Grant Olding | One Man, Two Guvnors |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Mark Bennett | Richard III |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Gina Leishman | Septimus and Clarissa |
| Outstanding Musical | Bonnie & Clyde | |
| Outstanding Musical | Death Takes a Holiday | |
| Outstanding Musical | Leap of Faith | |
| Outstanding Musical | Newsies The Musical | |
| Outstanding Musical | Nice Work If You Can Get It | |
| Outstanding Musical | Once | |
| Outstanding Musical | Queen of the Mist | |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | John McDaniel | Bonnie & Clyde |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Larry Hochman | Death Takes a Holiday |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Danny Troob | Newsies |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Bill Elliott | Nice Work If You Can Get It |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Martin Lowe | Once |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Michael Starobin | Queen of the Mist |
| Outstanding Play | Ita mar Moses | Completeness |
| Outstanding Play | Nina Raine | Tribes |
| Outstanding Play | Members of the Plastic Theatre, | Unnatural Acts |
| Outstanding Play | Lynn Nottage | By the Way, Meet Vera Stark |
| Outstanding Play | David Henry Hwang | Chinglish |
| Outstanding Play | Dan LeFranc | The Big Meal |
| Outstanding Play | Nicky Silver | The Lyons |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Carrie | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Evita | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Follies | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Jesus Christ Superstar | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | The Threepenny Opera | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Bonnie Comley | Gore Vidal's The Best Man |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | A Little Journey | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Death of a Salesman | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Edward Albee's The Lady from Dubuque | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Gore Vidal's The Best Man | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Lost in Yonkers | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Richard III | Richard III |
| Outstanding Revue | Newsical the Musical: End of the World Edition | |
| Outstanding Revue | The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman | The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman |
| Outstanding Set Design | Roger Hanna | A Little Journey |
| Outstanding Set Design | David Korins | Assistance |
| Outstanding Set Design | David Korins | Chinglish |
| Outstanding Set Design | Derek McLane | Follies |
| Outstanding Set Design | Jon Driscoll, Rob Howell and Paul Kieve | Ghost The Musical |
| Outstanding Set Design | David Gallo | The Mountaintop |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Stephen Spinella, Denis O'Hare | An Iliad |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Suli Holum | Chimera |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Cillian Murphy | Misterman |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Jeff Key | The Eyes of Babylon |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Baba Brinkman | The Rap Guide to Evolution |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Jonathan Deans | Carrie |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Jon Weston | Death Takes a Holiday |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Kai Harada | Follies |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Steve Canyon Kennedy | Jesus Christ Superstar |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Clive Goodwin | Once |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Acme Sound Partners | The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Gareth Fry | Richard III |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Stowe Nelson | Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Shane Rettig | She Kills Monsters |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | John Gromada | Gore Vidal's The Best Man |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Gregory Clarke | Misterman |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Quentin Chiappetta/mediaNoise | The Navigator |
| Sam Norkin Off Broadway Award | Stephen Karam | Sons of the Prophet |
| Special Award | Nick Westrate, New Victory Theatre | |
| Special Award | Mary Testa | Queen of the Mist |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Give Me Your Hand | |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good) | |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Noctu | |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill, Vol. 1: Early Plays/Lost Plays | |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | The Ryan Case 1873 | |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | White | |
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