Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Director of a Play |
Location | United States |
Presented by | Drama Desk |
Currently held by | Stephen Daldry for The Inheritance (2020) |
Website | DramaDeskAwards.com |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. The awards were established in 1955, with the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director being presented to directors of both plays and musicals. The new award categories were later created in the 1975 ceremony.
Winners and nominees[]
1970s[]
Year | Director | Production |
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1975 | ||
John Dexter | Equus | |
Frank Dunlop | Sherlock Holmes | |
Athol Fugard | Sizwe Banzi Is Dead | |
The Island | ||
Peter H. Hunt | Goodtime Charlie | |
Ron Link | Women Behind Bars | |
Gene Saks | Same Time, Next Year | |
1976 | ||
Ellis Rabb | The Royal Family | |
Edward Albee | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
Arvin Brown | Dual Bill | |
Mike Nichols | Streamers | |
Stephen Porter | They Knew What They Wanted | |
Tom Signorelli | Lamppost Reunion | |
1977 | ||
Mike Nichols | Comedians | |
Alan Schneider | A Texas Trilogy | |
Frank Dunlop | The New York Idea | |
Tony Giordano | G.R. Point | |
Ulu Grosbard | American Buffalo | |
Oz Scott | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf | |
1978 | ||
Melvin Bernhardt | Da | |
Peter Bennett | Dracula | |
Joseph Chaikin | The Dybbuk | |
Mike Nichols | The Gin Game | |
Steven Robman | Uncommon Women | |
Garland Wright | K | |
1979 | ||
Jack Hofsiss | The Elephant Man | |
Alan Ayckbourn | Bedroom Farce | |
John Madden | Wings | |
Stephen Porter | Man and Superman | |
Horacena J. Taylor | Nevis Mt. Dew | |
Ted Weiant | The Miracle Worker |
1980s[]
Year | Director | Production |
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1980 | ||
Vivian Matalon | Morning's at Seven | |
Kevin Conway | Mecca | |
Gordon Davidson | Children of a Lesser God | |
Lynne Gannaway and Robert Kalfin | Strider | |
Marshall W. Mason | Talley's Folly | |
Alan Schneider | Loose Ends | |
1981 | ||
Peter Hall | Amadeus | |
Melvin Bernhardt | Crimes of the Heart | |
Geraldine Fitzgerald | Mass Appeal | |
Douglas Seale | The Winslow Boy | |
1982 | ||
Tommy Tune | Cloud Nine | |
Athol Fugard | "Master Harold"...and the Boys | |
Jacques Levy | Potsdam Quartet | |
John Tillinger | Entertaining Mr Sloane | |
Douglas Turner Ward | A Soldier's Play | |
1983 | ||
Trevor Nunn | All's Well That Ends Well | |
Robert Allan Ackerman | Extremities | |
Michael Bennett | Third Street | |
George C. Scott | Present Laughter | |
Arthur Sherman | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | |
Gary Sinise | True West | |
1984 | ||
Michael Blakemore | Noises Off | |
Lee Grant | A Private View | |
Gerald Gutierrez | Isn't It Romantic | |
Terry Kinney | And a Nightingale Sang | |
Gregory Mosher | Glengarry Glen Ross | |
Mike Nichols | The Real Thing | |
1985 | ||
John Malkovich | Balm in Gilead | |
Ron Lagomarsino | Digby | |
Marshall W. Mason | As Is | |
Gene Saks | Biloxi Blues | |
Claudia Weill | Found a Peanut | |
1986 | ||
Jerry Zaks | The Marriage of Bette & Boo | |
The House of Blue Leaves | ||
Liviu Ciulei | Hamlet | |
Jonathan Miller | Long Day's Journey into Night | |
Mary B. Robinson | Lemon Sky | |
Gary Sinise | Orphans | |
John Tillinger | It's Only a Play | |
Loot | ||
1987 | ||
Howard Davies | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | |
Simon Gray and Michael McGuire | The Common Pursuit | |
Ron Lagomarsino | Driving Miss Daisy | |
Lloyd Richards | Fences | |
Carole Rothman | Coastal Disturbances | |
Gene Saks | Broadway Bound | |
1988 | ||
John Dexter | M. Butterfly | |
W. H. Macy | Boys' Life | |
Lynne Meadow | Woman in Mind | |
Gregory Mosher | Speed-the-Plow | |
Lloyd Richards | Joe Turner's Come and Gone | |
1989 | ||
Jerry Zaks | Lend Me a Tenor | |
Simon Callow | Shirley Valentine | |
Robin Lefèvre | Aristocrats | |
Jack O'Brien | The Cocktail Hour | |
Norman René | Reckless | |
Daniel Sullivan | The Heidi Chronicles |
1990s[]
Year | Director | Production |
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1990 | ||
Frank Galati | The Grapes of Wrath | |
Roger Michell | Some Americans Abroad | |
Adrian Noble | The Art of Success | |
Norman René | Prelude to a Kiss | |
Lloyd Richards | The Piano Lesson | |
1991 | ||
Jerry Zaks | Six Degrees of Separation | |
Michael Greif | Machinal | |
Richard Jones | La Bête | |
Kevin Kline | Hamlet | |
1992 | ||
Patrick Mason | Dancing at Lughnasa | |
JoAnne Akalaitis | 'Tis Pity She's a Whore | |
Michael Bloom | Sight Unseen | |
David Chambers | Search and Destroy | |
Mark Wing-Davey | Mad Forest | |
1993 | ||
George C. Wolfe | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | |
Christopher Ashley | Jeffrey | |
Adrian Hall | As You Like It | |
Ariane Mnouchkine | Les Atrides | |
Daniel Sullivan | The Sisters Rosensweig | |
1994 | ||
Stephen Daldry | An Inspector Calls | |
JoAnne Akalaitis | In the Summer House | |
Jonathan Kent | Medea | |
Mark Wing-Davey | The Lights | |
Mary Zimmerman | Arabian Nights | |
1995 | ||
Gerald Gutierrez | The Heiress | |
Declan Donnellan | As You Like It | |
David Esbjornson | Iphigenia and Other Daughters | |
Emily Mann | Having Our Say | |
Joe Mantello | Love! Valour! Compassion! | |
Sean Mathias | Indiscretions | |
1996 | ||
Gerald Gutierrez | A Delicate Balance | |
Scott Elliott | The Monogamist | |
Doug Hughes | The Grey Zone | |
Adrian Noble | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
Lloyd Richards | Seven Guitars | |
George C. Wolfe | The Tempest | |
1997 | ||
Mark Brokaw | How I Learned to Drive | |
Robert La Page | The Seven Streams of the River Ota | |
Lynne Meadow | Nine Armenians | |
Deborah Warner | The Waste Land | |
Mark Wing-Davey | The Skriker | |
1998 | ||
Michael Mayer | A View from the Bridge | |
Side Man | ||
Scott Elliott | Goose-Pimples | |
James Houghton | The American Clock | |
Garry Hynes | The Beauty Queen of Leenane | |
Joe Mantello | Mizlansky/Zilinsky or 'Schmucks' | |
Simon McBurney | The Chairs | |
1999 | ||
Trevor Nunn | Not About Nightingales | |
Derek Anson Jones | Wit | |
Howard Davies | The Iceman Cometh | |
Robert Falls | Death of a Salesman | |
Patrick Marber | Closer | |
Nicholas Martin | Betty's Summer Vacation |
2000s[]
Year | Director | Production |
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2000 | ||
Michael Blakemore | Copenhagen | |
Thomas Hulce and Jane Jones | The Cider House Rules (Part One) | |
James Lapine | Dirty Blonde | |
Michael Mayer | Uncle Vanya | |
Marion McClinton | Jitney | |
Daniel J. Sullivan | Dinner with Friends | |
2001 | ||
Jack O'Brien | The Invention of Love | |
Mark Brokaw | Lobby Hero | |
Michael Greif | Dogeaters | |
Philip Seymour Hoffman | Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train | |
Jonathan Kent | Richard II | |
Matthew Warchus | The Unexpected Man | |
2002 | ||
Mary Zimmerman | Metamorphoses | |
Howard Davies | Private Lives | |
Richard Eyre | The Crucible | |
Carl Forsman | The Voice of the Turtle | |
Neil LaBute | The Shape of Things | |
Bartlett Sher | Cymbeline | |
2003 | ||
Robert Falls | Long Day's Journey into Night | |
Philip Seymour Hoffman | Our Lady of 121st Street | |
Joe Mantello | Take Me Out | |
Sam Mendes | Twelfth Night | |
Uncle Vanya | ||
Deborah Warner | Medea | |
2004 | ||
Jack O'Brien | Henry IV | |
Hilary Adams | Moby Dick | |
Dexter Bullard | Bug | |
Edward Hall | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
Moisés Kaufman | I Am My Own Wife | |
Kenny Leon | A Raisin in the Sun | |
2005 | ||
Doug Hughes | Doubt | |
Josh Carlebach | Frankenstein | |
Scott Elliott | Hurlyburly | |
Scott Ellis | Twelve Angry Men | |
Edward Hall | Rose Rage | |
Joe Mantello | Glengarry Glen Ross | |
2006 | ||
Nicholas Hytner | The History Boys | |
Alan Ayckbourn | Private Fears in Public Places | |
Gisela Cardenas | Agamemnon | |
Daniel J. Sullivan | Stuff Happens | |
Robert Wilson | Peer Gynt | |
Jerry Zaks | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | |
2007 | ||
Jack O'Brien | The Coast of Utopia | |
Declan Donnellan | Twelfth Night | |
Michael Grandage | Frost/Nixon | |
Doug Hughes | Inherit the Wind | |
The Hairy Ape | ||
Tom Ridgely | Marco Millions | |
2008 | ||
Anna D. Shapiro | August: Osage County | |
David Schweizer | Horizon | |
Leigh Silverman | From Up Here | |
Jonathan Silverstein | The Dining Room | |
Matthew Warchus | Boeing-Boeing | |
Deborah Warner | Happy Days | |
2009 | ||
Matthew Warchus | The Norman Conquests | |
Sarah Benson | Blasted | |
Michael Blakemore | Blithe Spirit | |
Garry Hynes | The Cripple of Inishmaan | |
Terry Kinney | reasons to be pretty | |
Kate Whoriskey | Ruined |
2010s[]
Year | Director | Production |
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2010 | ||
Michael Grandage | Red | |
Jonathan Bank | So Help Me God! | |
Jack Cummings III | The Boys in the Band | |
Sam Gold | Circle Mirror Transformation | |
Michael Grandage | Hamlet | |
Ethan Hawke | A Lie of the Mind | |
2011 | ||
Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe | The Normal Heart | |
Trip Cullman | A Small Fire | |
Moisés Kaufman | Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | |
Davis McCallum | A Bright New Boise | |
Daniel J. Sullivan | The Merchant of Venice | |
Kirjan Waage and Gwendolyn Warnock | Baby Universe | |
2012 | ||
Mike Nichols | Death of a Salesman | |
Jo Bonney | By the Way, Meet Vera Stark | |
David Cromer | Tribes | |
Ed Sylvanus Iskandar | These Seven Sicknesses | |
Sam Mendes | Richard III | |
Tony Speciale | Unnatural Acts | |
2013 | ||
Pam MacKinnon | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
Lear de Bessonet | The Good Person of Szechwan | |
Sam Gold | Uncle Vanya | |
Ed Sylvanus Iskandar | Restoration Comedy | |
Lynne Meadow | The Assembled Parties | |
Ruben Santiago-Hudson | The Piano Lesson | |
2014 | ||
Tim Carroll | Twelfth Night | |
Joe Calarco | A Christmas Carol | |
Thomas Kail | Family Furniture | |
Bill Rauch | All the Way | |
Anna D. Shapiro | Domesticated | |
Julie Taymor | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
2015 | ||
Marianne Elliott | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | |
Jeremy Herrin | Wolf Hall: Parts One & Two | |
Anne Kauffman | You Got Older | |
Lila Neugebauer | The Wayside Motor Inn | |
Austin Pendleton | Between Riverside and Crazy | |
Joe Tantalo | Deliverance | |
John Tiffany | Let the Right One In | |
2016 | ||
Ivo van Hove | A View from the Bridge | |
Rachel Chavkin | The Royale | |
Sam Gold | John | |
Rupert Goold | King Charles III | |
Joe Mantello | The Humans | |
Jenn Thompson | Women Without Men | |
2017 | ||
Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Jitney | |
Anne Kauffman | A Life | |
Richard Nelson | What Did You Expect? and Women of a Certain Age | |
Daniel J. Sullivan | The Little Foxes | |
If I Forget | ||
2018 | ||
John Tiffany | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | |
Marianne Elliott | Angels in America | |
Jeremy Herrin | People, Places and Things | |
Joe Mantello | Three Tall Women | |
Lila Neugebauer | Miles for Mary | |
Simon Stone | Yerma | |
2019 | ||
Sam Mendes | The Ferryman | |
Sarah Benson | Fairview | |
Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin | The Jungle | |
Tyne Rafaeli | Usual Girls | |
Taylor Reynolds | Plano | |
Jeff Wise | Life Sucks |
2020s[]
Year | Director | Production |
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2020 | ||
Stephen Daldry | The Inheritance | |
Jessica Blank | Coal Country | |
John Ortiz | Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven | |
Tina Satter | Is This A Room | |
Erica Schmidt | Mac Beth |
See also[]
References[]
- "Drama Desk Award for Director of a Play". Internet Broadway Database. 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
External links[]
Categories:
- Drama Desk Awards