2017 Drama Desk Awards
Winners and nominees from the Drama Desk Awards.
2017 Drama Desk Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Nick Cordero | A Bronx Tale |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Andy Karl | Groundhog Day |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Jon Jon Briones | Miss Saigon |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Jeremy Secomb | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Nick Blaemire | Tick, tick... BOOM! |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | David Hyde Pierce | A Life |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | John Douglas Thompson | Jitney |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Daniel Craig | Othello |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Kevin Kline | Present Laughter |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Bobby Cannavale | The Hairy Ape |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Christy Altomare | Anastasia |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Laura Osnes | Bandstand |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Bette Midler | Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Sutton Foster | Sweet Charity |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Christine Ebersole, Patti LuPone | War Paint |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Laurie Metcalf | A Doll's House, Part 2 |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Amy Ryan | Love, Love, Love |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Laura Linney | The Little Foxes |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Cate Blanchett | The Present |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Harriet Walter | The Tempest |
| Outstanding Adaptation | David Ives | The Liar |
| Outstanding Adaptation | Ellen McLaughlin | The Trojan Women |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Terrence McNally | Anastasia |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Richard Oberacker, Rob Taylor | Bandstand |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Irene Sankoff, David Hein | Come From Away |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Itamar Moses | The Band's Visit |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Joe Tracz | The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical |
| Outstanding Choreography | Andy Blankenbuehler | Bandstand |
| Outstanding Choreography | Kelly Devine | Come from Away |
| Outstanding Choreography | Warren Carlyle | Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Choreography | Denis Jones | Holiday Inn |
| Outstanding Choreography | Aletta Collins | The Hairy Ape |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Linda Cho | Anastasia |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Paloma Young | Bandstand |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Toni-Leslie James | Come From Away |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Santo Loquasto | Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Anita Yavich | The View UpStairs |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Catherine Zuber | War Paint |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | Toni-Leslie James | Jitney |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | Susan Hilferty | Present Laughter |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | Ann Roth | The Front Page |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | Stewart Laing | The Hairy Ape |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | Murell Horton | The Liar |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | Jane Greenwood | The Little Foxes |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Christopher Ashley | Come From Away |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Jerry Zaks | Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Rachel Chavkin | Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Bill Buckhurst | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | David Cromer | The Band's Visit |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Anne Kauffman | A Life |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Daniel Sullivan | If I Forget |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Jitney |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Richard Jones | The Hairy Ape |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Daniel Sullivan | The Little Foxes |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Richard Nelson, Richard Nelson | What Did You Expect?/Women of a Certain Age |
| Outstanding Ensemble | Jenna Dioguardi, Brenna Coates, Mia Barron, Midori Francis, Susannah Perkins, Lauren Patten, Samia Finnerty, Tedra Millan, Sarah Mezzanotte, Lizzy Jutila | The Wolves |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Brandon Uranowitz | Falsettos |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Gavin Creel | Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Jeffry Denman | Kid Victory |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Ari'el Stachel | The Band's Visit |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | George Salazar | The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Jeremy Shamos | If I Forget |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Michael Aronov | Oslo |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Nathan Lane | The Front Page |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Danny DeVito | The Price |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Justice Smith | Yen |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Jayne Houdyshell | A Doll's House, Part 2 |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Kate Walsh | If I Forget |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Emily Skinner | Picnic |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Randy Graff | The Babylon Line |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Marie Mullen | The Beauty Queen of Leenane |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Cynthia Nixon | The Little Foxes |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Mary Beth Peil | Anastasia |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Jenn Colella | Come From Away |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Stephanie J. Block | Falsettos |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Kate Baldwin | Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Nora Schell | Spamilton |
| Outstanding Fight Choreography | Thomas Schall | Othello |
| Outstanding Fight Choreography | Donal O'Farrell | Quietly |
| Outstanding Fight Choreography | U. Jonathan Toppo | Sweat |
| Outstanding Fight Choreography | Thomas Schall | The Hairy Ape |
| Outstanding Fight Choreography | Rick Sordelet, Michael Rossmy | Troilus and Cressida |
| Outstanding Fight Choreography | J. David Brimmer | Yen |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Malcolm Rippeth | 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Jeff Croiter | Bandstand |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Bradley King | Hadestown |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Bradley King | Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Mark Henderson | Sunset Boulevard |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Amy Mae | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Christopher Akerlind | Indecent |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Stephen Strawbridge | Master Harold... and the Boys |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Mimi Jordan Sherin | The Hairy Ape |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Rick Fisher | The Judas Kiss |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Justin Townsend | The Little Foxes |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | James Farncombe | The Tempest |
| Outstanding Lyrics | David Hein, Irene Sankoff | Come From Away |
| Outstanding Lyrics | GQ, JQ | Othello: The Remix |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Gerard Alessandrini | Spamilton |
| Outstanding Lyrics | David Yazbeck | The Band's Visit |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Michael Korie | War Paint |
| Outstanding Music | Stephen Flaherty | Anastasia |
| Outstanding Music | Richard Oberacker | Bandstand |
| Outstanding Music | Dave Malloy | Beardo |
| Outstanding Music | Irene Sankoff, David Hein | Come From Away |
| Outstanding Music | David Yazbeck | The Band's Visit |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Sean Smith, Daniel Ocanto, Graham Ulicny | Alligator |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Bill Sims Jr. | Jitney |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Marcus Shelby | Notes from the Field |
| Outstanding Musical | Anastasia | Anastasia |
| Outstanding Musical | Come From Away | Come From Away |
| Outstanding Musical | Hadestown | Hadestown |
| Outstanding Musical | The Band's Visit | The Band's Visit |
| Outstanding Musical | The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical | The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Doug Besterman | Anastasia |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Bill Elliott, Greg Anthony Rassen | Bandstand |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | August Eriksmoen | Come From Away |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Benjamin Cox | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Jamshied Sharifi | The Band's Visit |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Bruce Coughlin | War Paint |
| Outstanding Play | Adam Bock | A Life |
| Outstanding Play | Steven Levenson | If I Forget |
| Outstanding Play | Paula Vogel | Indecent |
| Outstanding Play | J.T. Rogers | Oslo |
| Outstanding Play | Lynn Nottage | Sweat |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Aaron Rhyne | Anastasia |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Reid Farrington | CasablancaBox |
| Outstanding Projection Design | John Narun | Gorey: The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Elaine McCarthy | Notes From the Field |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Jared Mezzocchi | Vietgone |
| Outstanding Puppet Design | Lyndie Wright, Sarah Wright | 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips |
| Outstanding Puppet Design | Basil Twist | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Falsettos | Falsettos |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Hello, Dolly! | Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Sweet Charity | Sweet Charity |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Tick, Tick... BOOM! | Tick, Tick... BOOM! |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Jitney | Jitney |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Master Harold... and the Boys | Master Harold... and the Boys |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Picnic | Picnic |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | The Front Page | The Front Page |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | The Hairy Ape | The Hairy Ape |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | The Little Foxes | The Little Foxes |
| Outstanding Revue | Hello, Dillie! | Hello, Dillie! |
| Outstanding Revue | Life is for Living | Life is for Living |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Musical | Lez Brotherston | 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Musical | Santo Loquasto | Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Musical | Mimi Lien | Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Musical | Simon Kenny | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Musical | Jason Sherwood | The View UpStairs |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Play | Laura Jellinek | A Life |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Play | David Gallo | Jitney |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Play | Douglas W. Schmidt | The Front Page |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Play | Stewart Laing | The Hairy Ape |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Play | Nigel Hook | The Play that Goes Wrong |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Ed Dixon | Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Anna Deveare Smith | Notes from the Field |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Marin Ireland | On the Exhale |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Sarah Jones | Sell/Buy/Date |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Nancy Anderson | The Pen (Inner Voices) |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Brian Quijada | Where Did We Sit on the Bus? |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Simon Baker | 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Peter Hylenski | Anastasia |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Mick Potter | Cats |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Scott Lehrer | Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Nicholas Pope | Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Matt Stine | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Brian Ronan | War Paint |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Mikhail Fiksel | A Life |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Jane Shaw | Men on Boats |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Leon Rothenberg | Notes From the Field |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Gareth Fry, Pete Malkin | The Encounter |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Brian Quijada | Where Did We Sit on the Bus? |
| Outstanding Wig and Hair | Campbell Young Associates | Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Wig and Hair | Josh Marquette | Present Laughter |
| Outstanding Wig and Hair | Tom Watson | The Little Foxes |
| Outstanding Wig and Hair | Jason Hayes | The View UpStairs |
| Outstanding Wig and Hair | David Brian Brown | War Paint |
| Outstanding Wig and Hair | John Jared Janas | Yours Unfaithfully |
| Sam Norkin Award | Lila Neugebauer | |
| Special Award | Phil LaDuca | |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | CasablancaBox | CasablancaBox |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | The Ephemera Trilogy | The Ephemera Trilogy |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | The Paper Hat Game | The Paper Hat Game |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart | The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart |
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