64th Drama Desk Awards Nominations Announced

Nominations for the 64th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced yesterday, and the full list of nominees is available below.

In keeping with the Drama Desk's mission, nominators considered shows that opened on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway during the 2018-2019 New York theater season.

In determining eligibility of the Broadway productions of Hadestown, Torch Song, and Choir Boy, which had recent Off-Broadway runs in previous seasons, the nominating committee considered only those elements that constituted new work. For the productions of Be More Chill, What the Constitution Means to Me, Oklahoma!, and The New One

The 64th Annual Drama Desk Awards, hosted by Michael Urie, will take place on Sunday, June 2, 2019, at 8:00 PM at The Town Hall in Manhattan. Matt Britten, Broadway Brands CEO, will serve as executive producer and Joey Parnes Productions will produce the ceremony, as it has since 2012. The show will be written by Bill Rosenfield (46 Beacon, True Fans, Sunshine and Shadow), returning for his seventh year; directed by Mark Waldrop (Not That Jewish, Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly, Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends), marking his fourth year; and music-directed by Dan Lipton (The Band's Visit, The Last Ship), making his fifth appearance.

The design nominees are below. For the full list of nominees, go to the URL listed below.

Outstanding Set Design of a Play
Miriam Buether, The Jungle, Good Chance Theatre/National Theatre/Young Vic/St. Ann's Warehouse
Es Devlin, Girls & Boys
Maruti Evans, The Peculiar Patriot, National Black Theatre/Hi-Arts
Mimi Lien, Fairview Soho Rep,
Matt Saunders, "Daddy", The New Group, Vineyard Theatre

Outstanding Set Design for a Musical
presented by Hudson Scenic
Rachel Hauck, Hadestown
Laura Jellinek, Oklahoma!, Bard Summerscpe, St. Ann's Warehouse/Broadway
Laura Jellinek, Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future, Ars Nova
David Korins, Beetlejuice
Rae Smith, Girl from the North Country, Public Theater

Outstanding Costume Design for a Play
Dede M. Ayite, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Signature Theatre
Dede M. Ayite, If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka, Playwrights Horizons
Ásta Bennie Hostetter, Mrs. Murray's Menagerie, The Mad Ones
Toni-Leslie James, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Roundabout Theatre Company
Nicole Slaven, Henry VI: Shakespeare's Trilogy in Two Parts, National Asian American Theatre Company

Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical
William Ivey Long, Beetlejuice
William Ivey Long, Tootsie
Bobby Frederick Tilly II, Be More Chil
l Michael Krass, Hadestown
Bob Mackie, The Cher Show
Paloma Young, Alice by Heart, MCC Theater

Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play
Amith Chandrashaker, Boesman and Lena, Signature Theatre Company
Amith Chandrashaker, Fairview
Jiyoun Chang, Slave Play, New York Theatre Workshop
Jon Clark, The Jungle
Simon Cleveland, Spaceman, Loading Dock Theatre
Yi Zhao, The House That Will Not Stand, New York Theatre Workshop

Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical
presented by Production Resource Group
Adam Honoré, Carmen Jones, Classic Stage Company
Bradley King, Hadestown
Jamie Roderick, Midnight at the Never Get, York Theatre Company
Barbara Samuels, Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future
Scott Zielinski, Oklahoma!

Outstanding Projection Design
Peter England, King Kong
Katherine Freer, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Luke Halls, The Lehman Trilogy, National Theatre/Neal Street Productions/Park Avenue Armory
Alex Basco Koch, Be More Chill
Peter Nigrini, Beetlejuice
Joshua Thorson, Oklahoma!

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play
Tyler Kieffer, Plano, Clubbed Thumb
Fitz Patton, Choir Boy, Manhattan Theatre Club
Nick Powell, The Ferryman
Jane Shaw, I Was Most Alive with You, Playwrights Horizons
Mikaal Sulaiman, Fairview
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical
Simon Baker, Girl from the North Country
Drew Levy, Oklahoma!
Brian Ronan, Tootsie
Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz, Hadestown
Mikaal Sulaiman, Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future

Outstanding Wig and Hair Design
Campbell Young Associates, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Cookie Jordan, Eddie and Dave
Paul Huntley, Tootsie
Charles G. LaPointe, Beetlejuice
Charles G. LaPointe, The Cher Show

(26 April 2019)

E-mail this story to a friend