The 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards nominations
Nominations for the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced on Fri 25 Apr 2014 at 54 Below by Academy Award winners Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and two-time Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Fran Drescher.
The winners of the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards will be announced on 01 Jun 2014 at a ceremony held at The Town Hall in Manhattan, hosted by Laura Benanti.
The annual awards honor excellence in theater for Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway during the season. The Broadway musical ' A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder' leadsthe slate with twelve nominations, followed by the Broadway musical 'The Bridges of Madison County,'with nine nominations.
The following awards were voted by the nominating committee and will be presented by the Drama Desk at its awards ceremony: Special Awards:
Each year, the Drama Desk votes special awards to recognize excellence and significant contributions to the theater. For 2013/2014, these awards are presented to:
To Soho Rep: For nearly four decades of artistic distinction, innovative production, and provocative play selection.
To Veanne Cox: For her ability to express the eccentricities, strengths, and vulnerabilities of a range of characters, and notably for her comedic flair as evidenced in this season's 'The Old Friends' and 'The Most Deserving'.
To Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, the Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award: For his visionary directorial excellence. This season's 'The Golden Dragon' and 'The Mysteries' exemplify his bold and strikingly original imagination.
To the ensembles of Off-Broadway's The Open House and Broadway's The Realistic Joneses and to the creator of both plays, Will Eno: For two extraordinary casts and one impressively inventive playwright. The Open House: Hannah Bos, Michael Countryman, Peter Friedman Danny McCarthy, and Carolyn McCormick.
The Realistic Joneses: Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts and Marisa Tomei.
The 2014 Drama Desk Award nominations by category:
Outstanding Play:
- Nell Benjamin: The Explorers Club
- Steven Levenson: Core Values
- Conor McPherson: The Night Alive
- Richard Nelson: Regular Singing
- Bruce Norris: Domesticated
- Robert Schenkkan: All The Way
- John Patrick Shanley: Outside Mullingar
Outstanding Musical:
- A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
- Aladdin
- Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
- Fun Home
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Rocky
- The Bridges of Madison County
Outstanding Revival of a Play:
- I Remember Mama
- Golden Boy
- London Wall
- No Man's Land
- Of Mice and Men
- The Model Apartment
- Twelfth Night (Shakespeare's Globe Production)
Outstanding Revival of a Musical:
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Les Misérables
- Violet
Outstanding Actor in a Play:
- Bryan Cranston: All The Way
- Hamish Linklater: The Comedy of Errors
- Ian McKellen: No Man's Land
- David Morse: The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin
- Chris O'Dowd: Of Mice and Men
- Daniel Radcliffe: The Cripple of Inishmaan
- Denzel Washington: A Raisin in the Sun
Outstanding Actress in a Play:
- Barbara Andres: I Remember Mama
- Tyne Daly: Mothers and Sons
- Audra McDonald: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
- Laurie Metcalf: Domesticated
- J. Smith-Cameron: Juno and the Paycock
- Harriet Walter: Julius Caesar
Outstanding Actor in a Musical:
- Neil Patrick Harris: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Adam Jacobs: Aladdin
- Andy Karl: Rocky
- Jefferson Mays: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
- Steve Rosen: The Other Josh Cohen
- Steven Pasquale: The Bridges of Madison County
- Bryce Pinkham: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Outstanding Actress in a Musical:
- Sutton Foster: Violet
- Idina Menzel: If/Then
- Jessie Mueller: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
- Kelli O'Hara: The Bridges of Madison County
- Margo Seibert: Tamar of the River
- Barrett Wilbert Weed: Heathers: The Musical
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play:
- Reed Birney: Casa Valentina
- Chuck Cooper: Choir Boy
- Peter Maloney: Outside Mullingar
- Bobby Moreno: Year of the Rooster
- Bill Pullman: The Jacksonian
- Brian J. Smith: The Glass Menagerie
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play:
- Betty Buckley: The Old Friends
- Julia Coffey: London Wall
- Diane Davis: The Model Apartment
- Celia Keenan-Bolger: The Glass Menagerie
- Jan Maxwell: The Castle
- Sophie Okonedo: A Raisin in the Sun
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical:
- Danny Burstein: Cabaret
- Nick Cordero: Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
- Joshua Henry: Violet
- James Monroe Iglehart: Aladdin
- Rory O'Malley: Nobody Loves You
- Bobby Steggert: Big Fish
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical:
- Stephanie J. Block: Little Miss Sunshine
- Anika Larsen: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
- Adriane Lenox: After Midnight
- Sydney Lucas: Fun Home
- Laura Osnes: The Threepenny Opera
- Jennifer Simard: Disaster!
- Lauren Worsham: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Outstanding Director of a Play:
- Joe Calarco: A Christmas Carol
- Tim Carroll: Twelfth Night
- Thomas Kail: Family Furniture
- Bill Rauch: All The Way
- Anna D. Shapiro: Domesticated
- Julie Taymor: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Outstanding Director of a Musical:
- Sam Gold: Fun Home
- Michael Mayer: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Bartlett Sher: The Bridges of Madison County
- Susan Stroman: Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
- Emma Rice: The Wild Bride
- Alex Timbers: Rocky
- Darko Tresnjak: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Outstanding Choreography:
- Warren Carlyle: After Midnight
- Steven Hoggett / Kelly Devine: Rocky
- Danny Mefford: Love's Labour's Lost
- Casey Nicholaw: Aladdin
- Susan Stroman: Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
- Sonya Tayeh: Kung Fu
Outstanding Music:
- Jason Robert Brown: The Bridges of Madison County
- Andrew Lippa: Big Fish
- Steven Lutvak: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
- Alan Menken: Aladdin
- Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe: Heathers: The Musical
- Jeanine Tesori: Fun Home
Outstanding Lyrics:
- Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, and Chad Beguelin: Aladdin
- Jason Robert Brown: The Bridges of Madison County
- Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
- Michael Friedman: Love's Labour's Lost
- Michael Korie: Far from Heaven
- Lisa Kron: Fun Home
Outstanding Book of a Musical:
- Chad Beguelin: Aladdin
- Robert L. Freedman: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
- Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair: Murder for Two
- Lisa Kron: Fun Home
- Douglas McGrath: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
- Marsha Norman: The Bridges of Madison County
Outstanding Orchestrations:
- Jason Robert Brown: The Bridges of Madison County
- John Clancy: Fun Home
- Larry Hochman: Big Fish
- Steve Sidwell: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
- Michael Starobin: If/Then
- Jonathan Tunick: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Outstanding Music in a Play
- Lewis Flinn: The Tribute Artist
- Elliot Goldenthal: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Rob Kearns: The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle
- Tom Kochan: Almost, Maine
- Nico Muhly: The Glass Menagerie
- Duncan Sheik: A Man's a Man
Outstanding Revue
- After Midnight
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Musik from the Weimar and Beyond
- Le Jazz Hot: How the French Saved Jazz
- Til Divorce Do Us Part
- What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
Outstanding Set Design:
- Christopher Barreca: Rocky
- Alexander Dodge: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
- Richard Hoover: Small Engine Repair
- Santo Loquasto: Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
- Ian MacNeil: A Doll's House
- Donyale Werle: The Explorers Club
Outstanding Costume Design:
- Constance Hoffman: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- William Ivey Long: Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
- Zane Pihlstrom: Nutcracker Rouge
- Loren Shaw: The Mysteries
- Jenny Tiramani: Twelfth Night
- David C. Woolard: The Heir Apparent
Outstanding Lighting Design:
- Christopher Akerlind: Rocky
- Jane Cox: Machinal
- David Lander: The Civil War
- Peter Mumford: King Lear
- Brian Tovar: Tamar of the River
- Japhy Weideman: Macbeth
Outstanding Projection Design:
- Robert Massicotte and Alexis Laurence: Cirkopolis
- Sven Ortel: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Aaron Rhyne: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
- Shawn Sagady: All The Way
- Austin Switser: Sontag: Reborn
- Ben Rubin: Arguendo
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical:
- Kai Harada: Fun Home
- Peter Hylenski: Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
- Peter Hylenski: Rocky
- Brian Ronan: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
- Dan Moses Schreier: Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
- Jon Weston: The Bridges of Madison County
Outstanding Sound Design in a Play:
- M.L. Dogg: The Open House
- Katie Down: The Golden Dragon
- Paul James Prendergast: All The Way
- Dan Moses Schreier: Act One
- Christopher Shutt: Love and Information
- Matt Tier: Machinal
Outstanding Solo Performnce:
- David Barlow: This is My Office
- Jim Brochu: Character Man
- Hannah Cabell: Grounded
- Debra Jo Rupp: Becoming Dr. Ruth
- Ruben Santiago-Hudson: August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned
- John Douglas Thompson: Satchmo at the Waldorf
Unique Theatrical Experience:
- Charlatan Cirkopolis
- Mother Africa
- Nothing to Hide
- Nutcracker Rouge
- The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill Vol. 2
Drama Desk was founded in 1949 to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York. The organization began presenting its awards in 1955, and it is the only critics' organization to honor achievement in the theater with competition among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions in the same categories. The 2013-2014 Board of Directors of the Drama Desk is composed of: Isa Goldberg, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Charles Wright, Richard Ridge, Arlene Epstein, Elysa Gardner, Randy Gener, John Istel, Edward Karam, David Kaufman, William Wolf and Lauren Yarger.
Nominations by shows:
| The Bridges of Madison County (9 nominations) | Outstanding Musical Outstanding Actor in a Musical Outstanding Actress in a Musical Outstanding Director of a Musical Outstanding Music Outstanding Lyrics Outstanding Book of a Musical Outstanding Orchestrations Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical |
| A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (9 nominations) | tstanding Musical Outstanding Actor in a Musical Outstanding Actor in a Musical (X2) Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Outstanding Director of a Musical Outstanding Music Outstanding Lyrics Outstanding Book of a Musical Outstanding Orchestrations Outstanding Set Design Outstanding Projection Design Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical |
| Fun Home (8 nominations) | Outstanding Musical Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Outstanding Director of a Musical Outstanding Music Outstanding Lyrics Outstanding Book of a Musical Outstanding Orchestrations Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical |
| Aladdin (7 nominations) | Outstanding Musical standing Actor in a Musical Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Outstanding Choreography Outstanding Music Outstanding Lyrics Outstanding Book of a Musical |
| Rocky (7 nominations) | Outstanding Musical Outstanding Actor in a Musical Outstanding Director of a Musical Outstanding Set Design Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical Outstanding Lighting Design Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical |
| Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (6 nominations) | Outstanding Musical Outstanding Actress in a Musical Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Outstanding Book of a Musical Outstanding Orchestrations Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical |
| Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical (6 nominations) | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Outstanding Director of a Musical Outstanding Choreography Outstanding Set Design Outstanding Costume Design Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical |
| All The Way (5 nominations) | Outstanding Play Outstanding Actor in a Play Outstanding Director of a Play Outstanding Projection Design Outstanding Sound Design in a Play |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream (4 nominations) | Outstanding Director of a Play Outstanding Music in a Play Outstanding Costume Design Outstanding Projection Design |
| After Midnight (3 nominations) | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Outstanding Choreography Outstanding Revue |
| Big Fish (3 nominations) | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Outstanding Music Outstanding Orchestrations |
| Domesticated (3 nominations) | Outstanding Play Outstanding Actress in a Play Outstanding Director of a Play |
| Hedwig and the Angry Inch (3 nominations) | Outstanding Revival of a Musical Outstanding Actor in a Musical Outstanding Director of a Musical |
| London Wall (3 nominations) | Outstanding Revival of a Play Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Outstanding Set Design |
| Love's Labour's Lost (3 nominations) | Outstanding Musical Outstanding Choreography Outstanding Lyrics |
| The Glass Menagerie (3 nominations) | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Outstanding Music in a Play |
| Twelfth Night (Shakespeare's Globe Production) (3 nominations) | Outstanding Revival of a Play Outstanding Director of a Play Outstanding Costume Design |
| Violet (3 nominations) | Outstanding Revival of a Musical Outstanding Actress in a Musical Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical |
| Cirkopolis (2 nominations) | Outstanding Projection Design Unique Theatrical Experience |
| The Cripple of Inishmaan (2 nominations) | Outstanding Revival of a Play Outstanding Actor in a Play |
| The Explorers Club (2 nominations) | Outstanding Play Outstanding Set Design |
| Heathers: The Music (2 nominations) | Outstanding Actress in a Musical Outstanding Music |
| I Remember Mama (2 nominations) | Outstanding Revival of a Play Outstanding Actress in a Play |
| If/Then (3 nominations) | Outstanding Actress in a Musical Outstanding Orchestrations |
| Machinal (2 nominations) | Outstanding Lighting Design OOutstanding Sound Design in a Play |
| The Model Apartment (2 nominations) | Outstanding Revival of a Play Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play |
| No Man's Land (2 nominations) | Outstanding Revival of a Play Outstanding Actor in a Play |
| Nutcracker Rouge (2 nominations) | Outstanding Costume Design UUnique Theatrical Experience |
| Of Mice and Men (2 nominations) | Outstanding Revival of a Play Outstanding Actor in a Play |
| Outside Mullingar (2 nominations) | Outstanding Play Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play |
| A Raisin in the Sun (2 nominations) | Outstanding Actor in a Play Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play |
| Tamar of the River (2 nominations) | Outstanding Actress in a Musical Outstanding Lighting Design |
| Act One (1 nomination) | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play |
| Almost, Maine (1 nomination) | Outstanding Music in a Play |
| Arguendo (1 nomination) | Outstanding Projection Design |
| August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned (1 nomination) | Outstanding Solo Performance |
| Becoming Dr. Ruth (1 nomination) | Outstanding Solo Performance |
| Cabaret (1 nomination) | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical |
| The Castle (1 nomination) | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play |
| Character Man (1 nomination) | Outstanding Solo Performance |
| Choir Boy (1 nomination) | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play |
| A Christmas Carol (1 nomination) | Outstanding Director of a Play |
| The Civil War (1 nomination) | Outstanding Lighting Design |
| The Comedy of Errors (1 nomination) | Outstanding Actor in a Play |
| The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill Vol. 2 (1 nomination) | Unique Theatrical Experience |
| Core Values (1 nomination) | Outstanding Play |
| Disaster! (1 nomination) | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical |
| A Doll's House (1 nomination) | Outstanding Set Design |
| Family Furniture (1 nomination) | Outstanding Director of a Play |
| Far from Heaven (1 nomination) | Outstanding Lyrics |
| The Golden Dragon (1 nomination) | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play |
| Grounded (1 nomination) | Outstanding Solo Performance |
| The Heir Apparent (1 nomination) | Outstanding Costume Design |
| I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Musik from the Weimar and Beyond (1 nomination) | Outstanding Revue |
| The Jacksonian (1 nomination) | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play |
| Julius Caesar (1 nomination) | Outstanding Actress in a Play |
| Juno and the Paycock (1 nomination) | Outstanding Actress in a Play |
| King Lear (1 nomination) | Outstanding Lighting Design |
| Kung Fu (1 nomination) | Outstanding Choreography |
| Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (1 nomination) | Outstanding Actress in a Play |
| Le Jazz Hot: How the French Saved Jazz (1 nomination) | Outstanding Revue |
| Les Misérables (1 nomination) | Outstanding Revival of a Musical |
| The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle (1 nomination) | Outstanding Music in a Play |
| Little Miss Sunshine (1 nomination) | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical |
| Love and Information (1 nomination) | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play |
| Love's Labour's Lost (1 nomination) | Outstanding Musical |
| Macbeth (1 nomination) | Outstanding Lighting Design |
| A Man's a Man (1 nomination) | Outstanding Music in a Play |
| Mother Africa (1 nomination) | Unique Theatrical Experience |
| Mothers and Sons (1 nomination) | Outstanding Actress in a Play |
| Murder for Two (1 nomination) | Outstanding Book of a Musical |
| The Mysteries (1 nomination) | Outstanding Costume Design |
| The Night Alive (1 nomination) | Outstanding Play |
| Nobody Loves You (1 nomination) | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical |
| Nothing to Hide (1 nomination) | Unique Theatrical Experience |
| The Old Friends (1 nomination) | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play |
| The Open House (1 nomination) | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play |
| Regular Singing (1 nomination) | Outstanding Play |
| Satchmo at the Waldorf (1 nomination) | Outstanding Solo Performance |
| Small Engine Repair (1 nomination) | Outstanding Set Design |
| Sontag: Reborn (1 nomination) | Outstanding Projection Design |
| This is My Office (1 nomination) | Outstanding Solo Performance |
| The Threepenny Opera (1 nomination) | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical |
| Til Divorce Do Us Part (1 nomination) | Outstanding Revue |
| The Tribute Artist (1 nomination) | Outstanding Music in a Play |
| The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin (1 nomination) | Outstanding Actor in a Play |
| What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined (1 nomination) | Outstanding Revue |
| Year of the Rooster (1 nomination) | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play |
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