2015 Drama Desk Awards
Winners and nominees from the Drama Desk Awards.
2015 Drama Desk Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Robert Fairchild | An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Jeremy Kushnier | Atomic |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Matthew Morrison | Finding Neverland |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Ryan Silverman | Side Show |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Brian d'Arcy James | Something Rotten! |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Stephen McKinley Henderson | Between Riverside and Crazy |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Reed Birney | I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Bill Pullman | Sticks and Bones |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Alex Sharp | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Bradley Cooper | The Elephant Man |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Ben Miles | Wolf Hall, Parts One & Two |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Leanne Cope | An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Renee Elise Goldsberry | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Lisa Howard | It Shoulda Been You |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Kate Baldwin | John & Jen |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Kristin Chenoweth | On the Twentieth Century |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Erin Davie | Side Show |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Chita Rivera | The Visit |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Kathleen Chalfant | A Walk in the Woods |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Tonya Pinkins | Rasheeda Speaking |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Carey Mulligan | Skylight |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Helen Mirren | The Audience |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Jan Maxwell | The City of Conversation |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Kristin Griffith | The Fatal Weakness |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Brooke Boom | You Got Older |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Craig Lucas | An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Michael Mitnick, Will Connolly, Kim Rosenstock | Fly By Night |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Lee Overtree, Hunter Bell | Found: A New Musical |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Karey Kirkpatrick, John O'Farrell | Something Rotten! |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Terence McNally | The Visit |
| Outstanding Choreography | Christopher Wheeldon | An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Choreography | Joshua Bergasse | On the Town |
| Outstanding Choreography | Austin McCormick | Rococo Rouge |
| Outstanding Choreography | Casey Nicholaw | Something Rotten! |
| Outstanding Choreography | Steven Hoggett | The Last Ship |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Bob Crowley | An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Catherine Zuber | Gigi |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Paul Tazewell | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Bob Crowley | The Audience |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Andrea Varga | The Fatal Weakness |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Christopher Oram | Wolf Hall: Parts 1 & 2 |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Christopher Wheeldon | An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Carolyn Cantor | Fly By Night |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Thomas Kail | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Warren Carlyle | On the Twentieth Century |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Bill Condon | Side Show |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Casey Nicholaw | Something Rotten! |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | John Doyle | The Visit |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Austin Pendleton | Between Riverside and Crazy |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Joe Tantalo | Deliverance |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | John Tiffany | Let the Right One In |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Marianne Elliott | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Lila Neugebauer | The Wayside Motor Inn |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Jeremy Herrin | Wolf Hall, Parts One & Two |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Anne Kauffman | You Got Older |
| Outstanding Ensemble | The Wayside Motor Inn | The Wayside Motor Inn |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Max von Essen | An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Peter Friedman | Fly By Night |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Leslie Odom Jr. | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Josh Grisetti | It Shoulda Been You |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Andy Karl | On the Twentieth Century |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Christian Borle | Something Rotten! |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Brad Oscar | Something Rotten! |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | K. Todd Freeman | Airline Highway |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | F. Murray Abraham | It's Only a Play |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Jose Joaquin Perez | My Manana Comes |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Jonathan Hogan | Pocatello |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Jonathan Hadary | Rocket to the Moon |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Jason Butler Harner | The Village Bike |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Reed Birney | You Got Older |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Elizabeth A. Davis | Allegro |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Carolee Carmello | Finding Neverland |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Nancy Opel | Honeymoon in Vegas |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Tyne Daly | It Shoulda Been You |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Elizabeth Stanley | On the Town |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Luba Mason | Pretty Filthy |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Julie White | Airline Highway |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Beth Dixon | The City of Conversation |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Paola Lazaro-Munoz | To the Bone |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Lydia Leonard | Wolf Hall, Parts One & Two |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Julie Halston, Annaleigh Ashford | You Can't Take it with You |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Maruit Evans | Deliverance |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Howell Binkley | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Ben Stanton | Our Lady of Kibeho |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Paule Constable | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Natasha Katz | The Iceman Cometh |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Paule Constable, David Plater | Wolf Hall, Parts One & Two |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Jason Robert Brown | Honeymoon in Vegas |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Karey Kirkpatrick, Wayne Kirkpatrick | Something Rotten! |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Michael Friedman | The Fortress of Solitude |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Benjamin Scheuer | The Lion |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Fred Ebb | The Visit |
| Outstanding Music | Dave Malloy | Ghost Quartet |
| Outstanding Music | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Music | Jason Robert Brown | Honeymoon in Vegas |
| Outstanding Music | Michael Friedman | The Fortress of Solitude |
| Outstanding Music | Sting | The Last Ship |
| Outstanding Music | John Kander | The Visit |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Cesar Alvarez | An Octoroon |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Danny Blackburn, Bryce Hodgson | Deliverance |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Bongi Duma | Generations |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Sean Cronin | Kill Me Like You Mean It |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Arthur Solari, Jane Shaw | Tamburlaine, Parts I and II |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Freddi Price | The Pigeoning |
| Outstanding Musical | An American in Paris | An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Musical | Fly By Night | Fly By Night |
| Outstanding Musical | Hamilton | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Musical | Pretty Filthy | Pretty Filthy |
| Outstanding Musical | Something Rotten! | Something Rotten! |
| Outstanding Musical | The Visit | The Visit |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Mary-Mitchell Campbell | Allegro |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Christopher Austin | An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Alex Lacamoire | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Charlie Rosen, Don Sebesky, Larry Blank, Jason Robert Brown | Honeymoon in Vegas |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Larry Hochman | Something Rotten! |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Rob Mathes | The Last Ship |
| Outstanding Play | Lisa D'Amour | Airline Highway |
| Outstanding Play | Stephen Adly Guirgis | Between Riverside and Crazy |
| Outstanding Play | Jack Thorne | Let the Right One In |
| Outstanding Play | Elizabeth Irwin | My Manana Comes |
| Outstanding Play | Anthony Giardina | The City of Conversation |
| Outstanding Play | Simon Stephens | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| Outstanding Play | Clare Barron | You Got Older |
| Outstanding Projection Design | 59 Productions | An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Austin Switser | Big Love |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Roger Hanna, Price Johnston | Donogoo |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Darrel Maloney | Found: A New Musical |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Peter Nigrini | Our Lady of Kibeho |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Finn Ross | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Into the Woods | Into the Woods |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | On the Town | On the Town |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | On the Twentieth Century | On the Twentieth Century |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Pageant | Pageant |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Side Show | Side Show |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | The King and I | The King and I |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Fashions for Men | Fashions for Men |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Ghosts | Ghosts |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Tamburlaine, Parts I and II | Tamburlaine, Parts I and II |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | The Elephant Man | The Elephant Man |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | The Iceman Cometh | The Iceman Cometh |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | The Wayside Motor Inn | The Wayside Motor Inn |
| Outstanding Revue | Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! | Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! |
| Outstanding Revue | Just Jim Dale | Just Jim Dale |
| Outstanding Revue | Lennon: Through a Glass Onion | Lennon: Through a Glass Onion |
| Outstanding Revue | Lonesome Traveler | Lonesome Traveler |
| Outstanding Set Design | Bob Crowley | An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Set Design | Mimi Lien | An Octoroon |
| Outstanding Set Design | Daniel Zimmerman | Fashions for Men |
| Outstanding Set Design | David Korins | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Set Design | Christine Jones | Let the Right One In |
| Outstanding Set Design | Scott Pask | The Visit |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Christina Bianco | Application Pending |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Jonny Donahoe | Every Brilliant Thing |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Joely Richardson | The Belle of Amherst |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Benjamin Scheuer | The Lion |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Mona Golabek | The Pianist Willesden Lane |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Tom Dugan | Wiesenthal |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Jon Weston | An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Nevin Steinberg | Hamilton |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Drew Levy | Honeymoon |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Scott Lehrer | Honeymoon in Vegas |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Peter Hylenski | Side Show |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Scott Lehrer | The King and I |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Brian Ronan | The Last Ship |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Ien Denio | Deliverance |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Gareth Fry | Let the Right One In |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | John Gromada | Lives of the Saints |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Matt Tierney | Our Lady of Kibeho |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Ian Dickinson | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Nathan Davis | The Other Mozart |
| Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award | Bess Wohl | American Hero, Pretty Filthy, Small Mouth Sounds |
| Special Award | John Douglas Thompson | |
| Special Award | Andy Blankenbuehler | Hamilton |
| Special Award | Ensemble Studio Theatre | When January Feels Like Summer |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | A Rap Guide to Religion | A Rap Guide to Religion |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Catch Me! | Catch Me! |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Everybody Gets Cake | Everybody Gets Cake |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Queen of the Night | Queen of the Night |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | The Human Symphony | The Human Symphony |
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