2019 Drama Desk Awards
Winners and nominees from the Drama Desk Awards.
2019 Drama Desk Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Ensemble Award | Ikechukwu Ufomadu, Lucy Taylor, Purva Bedi, Eboni Booth, Camila Cano-Flavia, Thomas Jay Ryan, Christina Rouner, Ellen Maddow, Dina Shihabi | Dance Nation |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Steven Skybell | Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish) |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Damon Daunno | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Andrew R. Butler | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Brooks Ashmanskas | The Prom |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Santino Fontana | Tootsie |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Russell Harvard | I Was Most Alive With You |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Edmund Donovan | Lewiston/Clarkston |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Jeff Biehl | Life Sucks |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Raul Esparza | The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Jay O. Sanders | Uncle Vanya |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Anika Noni Rose | Carmen Jones |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Rebecca Naomi Jones | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Stacey Sargeant | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Stephanie J. Block | The Cher Show |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Beth Leavel | The Prom |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Zainab Jah | Boesman and Lena |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Laurie Metcalf | Hillary and Clinton |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Elaine May | The Waverly Gallery |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Midori Francis | Usual Girls |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Heidi Schreck | What the Constitution Means to Me |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Dominique Morisseau | Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Scott Brown, Anthony King | Beetlejuice |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Andrew R. Butler | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Bob Martin, Chad Beguelin | The Prom |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | Robert Horn | Tootsie |
| Outstanding Choreography | Jeff Kuperman, Rick Kuperman | Alice by Heart |
| Outstanding Choreography | Camille A. Brown | Choir Boy |
| Outstanding Choreography | David Neumann | Hadestown |
| Outstanding Choreography | Warren Carlyle | Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Choreography | Denis Jones | Tootsie |
| Outstanding Choreography | Lorin Latarro | Twelfth Night |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Paloma Young | Alice By Heart |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Bobby Frederick Tilly II | Be More Chill |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | William Ivey Long | Beetlejuice |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Michael Krass | Hadestown |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Bob Mackie | The Cher Show |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | William Ivey Long | Tootsie |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | Toni-Leslie James | Bernhardt/Hamlet |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | Dede M. Ayite | By the Way, Meet Vera Stark |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | Nicole Slaven | Henry VI: Shakespeare's Trilogy in Two Parts |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | Dede M. Ayite | If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka |
| Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | Asta Bennie Hostetter | Mrs. Murray's Menagerie |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Joel Grey | Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish) |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Rachel Chavkin | Hadestown |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Noah Brody | Merrily We Roll Along |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Daniel Fish | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Scott Ellis | Tootsie |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Sarah Benson | Fairview |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Jeff Wise | Life Sucks |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Taylor Reynolds | Plano |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Sam Mendes | The Ferryman |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Stephen Daldry, Justin Martin | The Jungle |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Tyne Rafaeli | Usual Girls |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | George Salazar | Be More Chill |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Sydney James Harcourt | Girl from the North Country |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Andre De Shields | Hadestown |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Corbin Bleu | Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Patrick Vaill | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Hampton Fluker | All My Sons |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Brandon Uranowitz | Burn This |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Charles Browning | Fairview |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Arnie Burton | Lewiston/Clarkston |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Tom Glynn-Carney | The Ferryman |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Stephanie Hsu | Be More Chill |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Leslie Kritzer | Beetlejuice |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Soara-Joye Ross | Carmen Jones |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Ali Stroker | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Mary Testa | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Sarah Stiles | Tootsie |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Megan Hill | Eddie and Dave |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Ruth Wilson | King Lear |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Alison Wright | Othello |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Harriett D. Foy | The House that Will Not Stand |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Celia Keenan-Bolger | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Outstanding Fight Choreography | Claire Warden | Daddy |
| Outstanding Fight Choreography | Claire Warden | Slave Play |
| Outstanding Fight Choreography | U. Jonathan Toppo | The Tragedy of Julius Caesar |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Adam Honore | Carmen Jones |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Bradley King | Hadestown |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Jamie Roderick | Midnight at the Never Get |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Scott Zielinski | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Barbara Samuels | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Amith Chandrashaker | Boesman and Lena |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Amith Chandrashaker | Fairview |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Jiyoun Chang | Slave Play |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Simon Cleveland | Spaceman |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Yi Zhao | The House that Will Not Stand |
| Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play | Jon Clark | The Jungle |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Joe Iconis | Be More Chill |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Andrew R. Butler | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Peter Mills | The Hello Girls |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Chad Beguelin | The Prom |
| Outstanding Lyrics | David Yazbek | Tootsie |
| Outstanding Music | Joe Iconis | Be More Chill |
| Outstanding Music | Mark Sonnenblick | Midnight at the Never Get |
| Outstanding Music | Andrew R. Butler | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future |
| Outstanding Music | Peter Mills | The Hello Girls |
| Outstanding Music | David Yazbek | Tootsie |
| Outstanding Music | Shaina Taub | Twelfth Night |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Jason Michael Webb, Fitz Patton | Choir Boy |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Justin Ellington | Mrs. Murray's Mengagerie |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Justin Ellington | The House that Will Not Stand |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Nick Powell | The Lehman Trilogy |
| Outstanding Music in a Play | Jongbin Jung, Paul Castles | Wild Goose Dreams |
| Outstanding Musical | Be More Chill | Be More Chill |
| Outstanding Musical | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future |
| Outstanding Musical | The Hello Girls | The Hello Girls |
| Outstanding Musical | The Prom | The Prom |
| Outstanding Musical | Tootsie | Tootsie |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Charlie Rosen, Charlie Rosen | Be More Chill |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Larry Blank, Larry Blank | Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish) |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Simon Hale, Simon Hale | Girl from the North Country |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Daniel Kluger | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Daniel Kluger | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Daryl Waters, Daryl Waters | The Cher Show |
| Outstanding Play | What the Constitution Means to Me | Heidi Schreck |
| Outstanding Play | Fairview | Jackie Sibblies Drury |
| Outstanding Play | The Ferryman | Jez Butterworth |
| Outstanding Play | Usual Girls | Ming Peiffer |
| Outstanding Play | Lewiston/Clarkston | Samuel D. Hunter |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Alex Basco Koch | Be More Chill |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Peter Nigrini | Beetlejuice |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Katherine Freer | By the Way, Meet Vera Stark |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Peter England | King Kong |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Joshua Thorson | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Luke Halls | The Lehman Trilogy |
| Outstanding Puppet Design | Michael Curry | Beetlejuice |
| Outstanding Puppet Design | Tschabalala Self | Daddy |
| Outstanding Puppet Design | Sonny Tilders | King Kong |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Carmen Jones | Carmen Jones |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish) | Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish) |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Kiss Me, Kate | Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Merrily We Roll Along | Merrily We Roll Along |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Oklahoma! | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine | Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Henry VI: Shakespeare's Trilogy in Two Parts | Henry VI: Shakespeare's Trilogy in Two Parts |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Our Lady of 121st Street | Our Lady of 121st Street |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Summer and Smoke | Summer and Smoke |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | The Waverly Gallery | The Waverly Gallery |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | Uncle Vanya | Uncle Vanya |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Musical | David Kornins | Beetlejuice |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Musical | Rae Smith | Girl from the North Country |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Musical | Rachel Hauck | Hadestown |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Musical | Laura Jellinek | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Set Design for a Musical | Laura Jellinek | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future |
| Outstanding Set Design of a Play | Matt Saunders | Daddy |
| Outstanding Set Design of a Play | Mimi Lien | Fairview |
| Outstanding Set Design of a Play | Es Devlin | Girls & Boys |
| Outstanding Set Design of a Play | Miriam Buether | The Jungle |
| Outstanding Set Design of a Play | Maruti Evans | The Peculiar Patriot |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Fleabag |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Carey Mulligan | Girls & Boys |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Erin Treadway | Spaceman |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Mike Birbiglia | The New One |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | Liza Jessie Peterson | The Peculiar Patriot |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Simon Baker | Girl from the North Country |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Jessica Paz, Nevin Steinberg | Hadestown |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Drew Levy | Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Mikaal Sulaiman | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Brian Ronan | Tootsie |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Fitz Patton | Choir Boy |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Mikaal Suliman | Fairview |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Jane Shaw | I Was Most Alive With You |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Tyler Kieffer | Plano |
| Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Nick Powell | The Ferryman |
| Outstanding Wig and Hair Design | Charles G. LaPointe | Beetlejuice |
| Outstanding Wig and Hair Design | Cookie Jordan | Eddie and Dave |
| Outstanding Wig and Hair Design | Campbell Young Associates | Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus |
| Outstanding Wig and Hair Design | Charles G. LaPointe | The Cher Show |
| Outstanding Wig and Hair Design | Paul Huntley | Tootsie |
| Sam Norkin Award | Montana Levi Blanco | |
| Special Award | Mia Katigbak, Repertorio Espanol | |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 | All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Love's Labor's Lost | Love's Labor's Lost |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | The B-Side: 'Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons | The B-Side: 'Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | What to Send Up When it Goes Down | What to Send Up When it Goes Down |
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