Awards

2022 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Fat Ham by James Ijames
Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury
Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord by Kristina Wong

2022 Outer Critics Circle Awards

Outstanding New Broadway Play
The Lehman Trilogy
Birthday Candles
Clyde's
Skeleton Crew
The Minutes

Outstanding New Broadway Musical
Six
MJ: The Musical
Mr. Saturday Night
Mrs. Doubtfire
Paradise Square

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Prayer for the French Republic
Morning Sun
On Sugarland
Sanctuary City
The Chinese Lady

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical
Kimberly Akimbo
Black No More
Harmony
Intimate Apparel
Little Girl Blue

John Gassner Award (presented to a new American play, preferably by a new playwright)
English by Sanaz Toossi
Cullud Wattah by Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury
Tambo and Bones by Dave Harris
Thoughts of a Colored Man by Keenan Scott II

Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Take Me Out
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
How I Learned to Drive
A Touch of the Poet
Trouble in Mind

Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Company
Assassins
Caroline, or Change
The Music Man
The Streets of New York

Outstanding Book of a Musical
David Lindsay-Abaire, Kimberly Akimbo
Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel, Mr. Saturday Night
Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell, Mrs. Doubtfire
Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel
Bruce Sussman, Harmony

Outstanding Score
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, Six
Jason Howland, Nathan Tysen, and Masi Asare, Paradise Square
Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Doubtfire
Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, Harmony
Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire, Kimberly Akimbo

Outstanding Actor in a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Simon Russell Beale, The Lehman Trilogy
Patrick J. Adams, Take Me Out
Adam Godley, The Lehman Trilogy
Adrian Lester, The Lehman Trilogy
Sam Rockwell, American Buffalo

Outstanding Actress in a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
LaChanze, Trouble in Mind
Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Republic
Stephanie Berry, On Sugarland
Edie Falco, Morning Sun
Debra Messing, Birthday Candles

Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Jaquel Spivey, A Strange Loop
Justin Cooley, Kimberly Akimbo
Myles Frost, MJ: The Musical
Rob McClure, Mrs. Doubtfire
Chip Zien, Harmony

Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo
Kearstin Piper Brown, Intimate Apparel
Sharon D Clarke, Caroline, or Change
Carmen Cusack, Flying Over Sunset
Joaquina Kalukango, Paradise Square

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me Out
Chuck Cooper, Trouble in Mind
Brandon J. Dirden, Skeleton Crew
Michael Oberholtzer, Take Me Out
Austin Pendleton, The Minutes

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Uzo Aduba, Clyde's
Chanté Adams, Skeleton Crew
Francis Benhamou, Prayer for the French Republic
Phylicia Rashad, Skeleton Crew
Nancy Robinette, Prayer for the French Republic

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Matt Doyle, Company
Quentin Earl Darrington, MJ: The Musical
Steven Pasquale, Assassins
A.J. Shively, Paradise Square
Will Swenson, Assassins

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Patti LuPone, Company
Shoshana Bean, Mr. Saturday Night
Jenn Colella, Suffs
Judy Kuhn, Assassins
Bonnie Milligan, Kimberly Akimbo

Outstanding Solo Performance
Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
Alex Edelman, Just For Us
Jenn Murray, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
Arturo Luís Soria, Ni Mi Madre

Outstanding Director of a Play
Sam Mendes, The Lehman Trilogy
Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Scott Ellis, Take Me Out
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Skeleton Crew
Anna D. Shapiro, The Minutes

Outstanding Director of a Musical
Jessica Stone, Kimberly Akimbo
Warren Carlyle, Harmony
Moisés Kaufman, Paradise Square
Christopher Wheeldon, MJ: The Musical
Jerry Zaks, Mrs. Doubtfire

Outstanding Choreographer
Christopher Wheeldon and Rich + Tone Talauega, MJ: The Musical
Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Warren Carlyle, Harmony
Warren Carlyle, The Music Man
Bill T. Jones, Alex Sanchez, Garrett Coleman, and Jason Oremus, Paradise Square

Outstanding Scenic Design (Play or Musical)
Adam Rigg, The Skin of Our Teeth
Beowulf Boritt, Flying Over Sunset
Es Devlin, The Lehman Trilogy
Scott Pask, American Buffalo
David Zinn, The Minutes

Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical)
Gabriella Slade, Six
Jane Greenwood, Plaza Suite
Santo Loquasto, The Music Man
Emilio Sosa, Trouble in Mind
Catherine Zuber, Mrs. Doubtfire

Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical)
Jon Clark, The Lehman Trilogy
Natasha Katz, MJ: The Musical
Bradley King, Flying Over Sunset
Brian MacDevitt, The Minutes
Jen Schreiver, Lackawanna Blues

Outstanding Video/Projection Design (Play or Musical)
Luke Halls, The Lehman Trilogy
59 Productions and Benjamin Pearcy, Flying Over Sunset
Stefania Bulbarella and Alex Basco Koch, Space Dogs
Shawn Duan, Letters of Suresh
Jeff Sugg, Mr. Saturday Night

Outstanding Sound Design (Play or Musical)
Nick Powell and Dominic Bilkey, The Lehman Trilogy
André Pluess, The Minutes
Ben and Max Ringham, Blindness
Dan Moses Schreier, Harmony
Matt Stine, Assassins

Outstanding Orchestrations
Jason Howland, Paradise Square
John Clancy, Kimberly Akimbo
David Holcenberg and Jason Michael Webb, MJ: The Musical
Greg Jarrett, Assassins
Doug Walter, Harmony

Special Achievement Awards
Johanna Day, David Morse, Mary-Louise Parker, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson for reprising their outstanding performances in How I Learned to Drive and Lackawanna Blues two decades later. All had been eligible in previous seasons.

Outer Critics Circle Commendations
The Standbys, Understudies, and Swings of the theatrical community who step up to perform, often on hours' notice, to keep their shows running.
The Covid Safety Supervisors, Managers, and Compliance Officers who put themselves in harm's way eight times a week to keep the curtains up.

After consideration in previous seasons, only new elements of the following productions were eligible for awards: Girl from the North Country, Is This A Room, Dana H., Hangmen, A Strange Loop.

By mutual agreement with the production, owing to COVID-19-related delays, the Broadway revival of Macbeth will be considered for awards during the 2022-2023 season.

The following return engagements were not eligible for awards: Springsteen on Broadway, Waitress, American Utopia, Freestyle Love Supreme, Slave Play, Beetlejuice.

2022 Theatre World Awards

8th Annual John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Patti LuPone and André De Shields

Honorees for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance
Patrick J. Adams, Take Me Out
Yair Ben-Dor, Prayer for the French Republic
Kearstin Piper Brown, Intimate Apparel
Sharon D. Clarke, Caroline, or Change
Enrico Colantoni, Birthday Candles
Justin Cooley, Kimberly Akimbo
Crystal Finn, Birthday Candles
Gaby French, Hangmen
Myles Frost, MJ: The Musical
Jaquel Spivey, A Strange Loop
Shannon Tyo, The Chinese Lady
Kara Young, Clyde's

John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Harvey Fierstein

Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in the Theater
Michael Oberholtzer, Take Me Out

2022 Tony Awards

Best Musical
A Strange Loop
Girl From the North Country
MJ: The Musical
Mr. Saturday Night
Paradise Square
Six

Best Play
The Lehman Trilogy
Clyde's
Hangmen
The Minutes
Skeleton Crew

Best Revival of a Musical
Company
Caroline, or Change
The Music Man

Best Revival of a Play
Take Me Out
American Buffalo
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
How I Learned to Drive
Trouble in Mind

Best Book of a Musical
A Strange Loop
Girl From the North Country
MJ: The Musical
Mr. Saturday Night
Paradise Square

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Six
Flying Over Sunset
Mr. Saturday Night
Paradise Square
A Strange Loop

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Simon Russell Beale, The Lehman Trilogy
Adam Godley, The Lehman Trilogy
Adrian Lester, The Lehman Trilogy
David Morse, How I Learned to Drive
Sam Rockwell, American Buffalo
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Lackawanna Blues
David Threlfall, Hangmen

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Deirdre O'Connell, Dana H.
Gabby Beans, The Skin of Our Teeth
LaChanze, Trouble in Mind
Ruth Negga, Macbeth
Mary-Louise Parker, How I Learned to Drive

Best Performance by an Actor in Leading Role in a Musical
Myles Frost, MJ: The Musical
Billy Crystal, Mr. Saturday Night
Hugh Jackman, The Music Man
Rob McClure, Mrs. Doubtfire
Jaquel Spivey, A Strange Loop

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Joaquina Kalukango, Paradise Square
Sharon D Clarke, Caroline, or Change
Carmen Cusack, Flying Over Sunset
Sutton Foster, The Music Man
Mare Winningham, Girl From the North Country

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me Out
Alfie Allen, Hangmen
Chuck Cooper, Trouble in Mind
Ron Cephas Jones, Clyde's
Michael Oberholtzer, Take Me Out
Jesse Williams, Take Me Out

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Phylicia Rashad, Skeleton Crew
Uzo Aduba, Clyde's
Rachel Dratch, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Kenita R. Miller, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Julie White, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Kara Young, Clyde's

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Matt Doyle, Company
Sidney DuPont, Paradise Square
Jared Grimes, Funny Girl
John-Andrew Morrison, A Strange Loop
A.J. Shively, Paradise Square

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Patti LuPone, Company
Jeannette Bayardelle, Girl From the North Country
Shoshana Bean, Mr. Saturday Night
Jayne Houdyshell, The Music Man
L Morgan Lee, A Strange Loop
Jennifer Simard, Company

Best Direction of a Play
Sam Mendes, The Lehman Trilogy
Lileana Blain-Cruz, The Skin of Our Teeth
Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Neil Pepe, American Buffalo
Les Waters, Dana H.

Best Direction of a Musical
Marianne Elliott, Company
Stephen Brackett, A Strange Loop
Conor McPherson, Girl From the North Country
Lucy Moss & Jamie Armitage, Six
Christopher Wheeldon, MJ: The Musical

Best Choreography
Christopher Wheeldon, MJ: The Musical
Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Warren Carlyle, The Music Man
Carrie-Anne Ingrouille, Six
Bill T. Jones, Paradise Square

Best Orchestrations
Simon Hale, Girl From the North Country
David Cullen, Company
Tom Curran, Six
Jason Michael Webb and David Holcenberg, MJ: The Musical
Charlie Rosen, A Strange Loop

Best Scenic Design of a Play
Es Devlin, The Lehman Trilogy
Beowulf Boritt, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Michael Carnahan and Nicholas Hussong, Skeleton Crew
Anna Fleischle, Hangmen
Scott Pask, American Buffalo
Adam Rigg, The Skin of Our Teeth

Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Bunny Christie, Company
Beowulf Boritt and 59 Productions, Flying Over Sunset
Arnulfo Maldonado, A Strange Loop
Derek McLane and Peter Nigrini, MJ: The Musical
Allen Moyer, Paradise Square

Best Costume Design of a Play
Montana Levi Blanco, The Skin of Our Teeth
Sarafina Bush, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Emilio Sosa, Trouble in Mind
Jane Greenwood, Plaza Suite
Jennifer Moeller, Clyde's

Best Costume Design of a Musical
Gabriella Slade, Six
Fly Davis, Caroline, or Change
Toni-Leslie James, Paradise Square
William Ivey Long, Diana
Santo Loquasto, The Music Man
Paul Tazewell, MJ: The Musical

Best Lighting Design of a Play
Jon Clark, The Lehman Trilogy
Joshua Carr, Hangmen
Jiyoun Chang, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Jane Cox, Macbeth
Yi Zhao, The Skin of Our Teeth

Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Natasha Katz, MJ: The Musical
Neil Austin, Company
Tim Deiling, Six
Donald Holder, Paradise Square
Bradley King, Flying Over Sunset
Jen Schriever, A Strange Loop

Best Sound Design in a Play
Mikhail Fiksel, Dana H.
Justin Ellington, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Palmer Hefferan, The Skin of Our Teeth
Nick Powell and Dominic Bilkey, The Lehman Trilogy
Mikaal Sulaiman, Macbeth

Best Sound Design in a Musical
Gareth Owen, MJ: The Musical
Simon Baker, Girl From the North Country
Paul Gatehouse, Six
Ian Dickinson for Autograph, Company
Drew Levy, A Strange Loop

Special Tony Award
James C. Nicola, New York Theatre Workshop

Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Robert E. Wankel

Regional Theatre Tony Award
Court Theatre of Chicago

Excellence In Theatre Education Award
Roshunda Jones-Koumba

Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre
Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC)
Broadway For All
Feinstein’s/54 Below
Emily Grishman
United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE

Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Angela Lansbury

2022 Drama League Awards

Outstanding Production of a Musical
A Strange Loop
American Utopia
The Hang
Kimberly Akimbo
MJ: The Musical
Mr. Saturday Night
Mrs. Doubtfire
Oratorio for Living Things
Six
SUFFS

Outstanding Production of a Play
The Lehman Trilogy
Clyde's
Confederates
Dana H.
English
Hangmen
Merry Wives
The Minutes
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Prayer for the French Republic
Selling Kabul

Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical
Company
Assassins
Caroline, or Change
Funny Girl
The Music Man

Outstanding Revival of a Play
Take Me Out
American Buffalo
Cyrano de Bergerac
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
How I Learned to Drive
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Skeleton Crew
The Skin of Our Teeth
Trouble in Mind

Outstanding Direction of a Play
Kate Whoriskey, Clyde's
Knud Adams, English
Saheem Ali, Merry Wives
Stori Ayers, Confederates
Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Matthew Dunster, Hangmen
Jamie Lloyd, Cyrano de Bergerac
Sam Mendes, The Lehman Trilogy
Tyne Rafaeli, Selling Kabul
Taylor Reynolds, Tambo & Bones
Les Waters, Dana H.

Outstanding Direction of a Musical
Marianne Elliott, Company
John Doyle, Assassins
Lee Sunday Evans, Oratorio For Living Things
Michael Mayer, Funny Girl
Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage, Six
Leigh Silverman, SUFFS
Niegel Smith, The Hang
Christopher Wheeldon, MJ: The Musical
Jerry Zaks, The Music Man

Distinguished Performance Award
Sutton Foster, The Music Man
Uzo Aduba, Clyde's
Simon Russell Beale, The Lehman Trilogy
Shoshana Bean, Mr. Saturday Night
Gabby Beans, The Skin of Our Teeth
Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo
Sharon D. Clarke, Caroline, or Change
Billy Crystal, Mr. Saturday Night
Matt Doyle, Company
Rachel Dratch, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Edie Falco, Morning Sun
Tyler Fauntleroy, Tambo & Bones
Beanie Feldstein, Funny Girl
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me Out
Myles Frost, MJ: The Musical
Adrianna Hicks, Six
Marin Ireland, Morning Sun
Nikki M. James, SUFFS
Ron Cephas Jones, Clyde's
Joaquina Kalukango, Paradise Square
LaChanze, Trouble in Mind
L Morgan Lee, A Strange Loop
Jane Lynch, Funny Girl
Taylor Mac, The Hang
Brittney Mack, Six
Ebony Marshall-Oliver, 7 Minutes
Elizabeth Marvel, Long Day's Journey Into Night
James McAvoy, Cyrano de Bergerac
Rob McClure, Mrs. Doubtfire
Kenita R. Miller, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Bonnie Milligan, Kimberly Akimbo
David Morse, How I Learned to Drive
Deirdre O’Connell, Dana H.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Plaza Suite
Phylicia Rashad, Skeleton Crew
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Lackawanna Blues
Arturo Luis Soria, Ni Mi Madre
Jaquel Spivey, A Strange Loop
Cecily Strong, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
Will Swenson, Assassins
Julie White, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Jesse Williams, Take Me Out
Michelle Wilson, Confederates

Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater
Hugh Jackman

Founders Award for Excellence in Directing
Lileana Blain-Cruz

Contribution to the Theater Award
Billy Crystal

Gratitude Award
Willette Murphy Klausner

The Drama League also wishes to acknowledge the previous recipients of the Distinguished Performance Award who appeared in Broadway or Off-Broadway productions this season. As the Award can only be won once in a performer’s lifetime, they are ineligible to be nominated; however, their exemplary work is recognized and applauded:
Hugh Jackman, The Music Man
Patti LuPone, Company
Mary-Louise Parker, How I Learned to Drive

2022 Drama Desk Awards

Outstanding Play
Prayer for the French Republic, by Joshua Harmon, Manhattan Theatre Club
Cullud Wattah, by Erika Dickerson-Despenza, The Public Theater
English, by Sanaz Toossi, Atlantic Theater Company
Sanctuary City, by Martyna Majok, New York Theatre Workshop
Selling Kabul, by Sylvia Khoury, Playwrights Horizons
The Chinese Lady, by Lloyd Suh, The Public Theater

Outstanding Musical
Kimberly Akimbo, Atlantic Theater Company
Harmony, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
Intimate Apparel, Lincoln Center Theater
Six
The Hang, HERE Arts Center

Outstanding Revival of a Play
How I Learned to Drive
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Lackawanna Blues
Skeleton Crew
Trouble in Mind
Twilight: Lost Angeles, 1992, Signature Theatre

Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Company
Assassins, Classic Stage Company
Baby, Out of the Box Theatrics
Caroline, or Change

Outstanding Actor in a Play
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Lackawanna Blues
Brandon J. Dirden, Skeleton Crew
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me Out
Jacob Ming-Trent, Merry Wives, The Public Theater Free Shakespeare in the Park
John Douglas Thompson, The Merchant of Venice, Theatre for a New Audience

Outstanding Actress in a Play
Phylicia Rashad, Skeleton Crew
Tala Ashe, English, Atlantic Theater Company
Ruth Negga, Macbeth
Andrea Patterson, Cullud Wattah, The Public Theater
Shannon Tyo, The Chinese Lady, The Public Theater
Michelle Wilson, Confederates, Signature Theatre

Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Jaquel Spivey, A Strange Loop
Billy Crystal, Mr. Saturday Night
Myles Frost, MJ: The Musical
Rob McClure, Mrs. Doubtfire
Chip Zien, Harmony, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene

Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Joaquina Kalukango, Paradise Square
Kearstin Piper Brown, Intimate Apparel, Lincoln Center Theater
Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo, Atlantic Theater Company
Sharon D Clarke, Caroline, or Change
Jeanna de Waal, Diana

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Ron Cephas Jones, Clyde's
Joshua Boone, Skeleton Crew
Chuck Cooper, Trouble in Mind
Daniel K. Isaac, The Chinese Lady, The Public Theater
Billy Eugene Jones, On Sugarland, New York Theatre Workshop

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Francis Benhamou, Prayer for the French Republic, Manhattan Theatre Club
Stephanie Berry, On Sugarland, New York Theatre Workshop
Sonnie Brown, what you are now, Ensemble Studio Theatre
Page Leong, Out of Time, NAATCO and The Public Theater
Kenita R. Miller, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Kara Young, Clyde's

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Matt Doyle, Company
Justin Austin, Intimate Apparel, Lincoln Center Theater
Justin Cooley, Kimberly Akimbo, Atlantic Theater Company
Jared Grimes, Funny Girl
Tavon Olds-Sample, MJ: The Musical

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Patti LuPone, Company
Judy Kuhn, Assassins, Classic Stage Company
Tamika Lawrence, Black No More, The New Group
Bonnie Milligan, Kimberly Akimbo, Atlantic Theater Company
Jennifer Simard, Company

Outstanding Director of a Play
Rebecca Frecknall, Sanctuary City, New York Theatre Workshop
Knud Adams, English, Atlantic Theater Company
Saheem Ali, Merry Wives, The Public Theater Free Shakespeare in the Park
Taibi Magar, Twilight: Lost Angeles, 1992, Signature Theatre
Whitney White, On Sugarland, New York Theatre Workshop

Outstanding Director of a Musical
Marianne Elliott, Company
John Doyle, Assassins, Classic Stage Company
Lucy Moss & Jamie Armitage, Six
Bartlett Sher, Intimate Apparel, Lincoln Center Theater
Jessica Stone, Kimberly Akimbo, Atlantic Theater Company

Outstanding Choreography
Bill T. Jones, Garrett Coleman & Jason Oremus (Irish Hammerstep), Gelan Lambert & Chloe Davis (associates), Paradise Square
Ayodele Casel (tap choreography), Funny Girl
Carrie-Anne Ingrouille, Six
Liam Steel, Company
Christopher Wheeldon, Michael Balderrama (associate), Rich and Tone Taleuega (Michael Jackson Movement), MJ: The Musical

Outstanding Music
Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss, Six
Jason Howland, Paradise Square
Matt Ray, The Hang, HERE Arts Center
Carrie Rodriguez, ¡Americano!, New World Stages
Jeanine Tesori, Kimberly Akimbo, Atlantic Theater Company

Outstanding Lyrics
Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss, Six
Amanda Green, Mr. Saturday Night
Taylor Mac, The Hang, HERE Arts Center
David Lindsay-Abaire, Kimberly Akimbo, Atlantic Theater Company
Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel, Lincoln Center Theater
Shaina Taub, Suffs, The Public Theater

Outstanding Book of a Musical
Bruce Sussman, Harmony, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel, Mr. Saturday Night
Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss, Six
Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel, Lincoln Center Theater

Outstanding Orchestrations
Jason Michael Webb & David Holcenberg, MJ: The Musical
Tom Curran, Six
Greg Jarrett, Assassins, Classic Stage Company
Mark Hartman & Yasuhiko Fukuoka, The Streets of New York, Irish Repertory Theatre

Outstanding Music in a Play
Bill Sims Jr., Lackawanna Blues
Te'La & Kamauu, Thoughts of a Colored Man
Michael Thurber & Farai Malianga (drum compositions), Merry Wives, The Public Theater Free Shakespeare in the Park

Outstanding Scenic Design for a Play
Takeshi Kata, Clyde's
Beowulf Boritt, Merry Wives, The Public Theater Free Shakespeare in the Park
Wilson Chin, Pass Over
Marsha Ginsberg, English, Atlantic Theater Company
Junghyun Georgia Lee, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, New York Theatre Workshop

Outstanding Scenic Design for a Musical
Beowulf Boritt, Flying Over Sunset
Emma Bailey, Six
Bunny Christie, Company
David Zinn, Kimberly Akimbo, Atlantic Theater Company

Outstanding Costume Design for a Play
Jennifer Moeller, Clyde's
Linda Cho, The Chinese Lady, The Public Theater
Gregory Gale, Fairycakes, Greenwich House Theater
Tilly Grimes, The Alchemist, Red Bull Theater
Qween Jean, On Sugarland, New York Theatre Workshop

Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical
Gabriella Slade, Six
Machine Dazzle, The Hang, HERE Arts Center
Susan Hilferty, Funny Girl
Santo Loquasto, The Music Man
Catherine Zuber, Intimate Apparel, Lincoln Center Theater

Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play
Christopher Akerlind, Clyde's
Reza Behjat, English, Atlantic Theater Company
Isabella Byrd, Sanctuary City, New York Theatre Workshop
Amith Chandrashaker, Prayer for the French Republic, Manhattan Theatre Club
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, Cullud Wattah, The Public Theater

Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical
Natasha Katz, MJ: The Musical
Natasha Katz, Diana
Bradley King, Flying Over Sunset
Jennifer Tipton, Intimate Apparel, Lincoln Center Theater

Outstanding Projection Design
59 Productions, Flying Over Sunset
David Bengali, Twilight: Lost Angeles, 1992, Signature Theatre
Stephania Bulbarella & Alex Basco Koch, Space Dogs, MCC Theater
Shawn Duan, The Chinese Lady, The Public Theater
Sven Ortel, Thoughts of a Colored Man

Outstanding Sound Design for a Play
Ben & Max Ringham, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Jamie Lloyd company at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Tyler Kieffer, Seven Deadly Sins, Tectonic Theater Project & Madison Wells Live
Hidenori Nakajo & Ryan Rumery, Autumn Royal, Irish Repertory Theatre
Mikaal Sulaiman, Sanctuary City, New York Theatre Workshop
Lee Kinney, Selling Kabul, Playwrights Horizons

Outstanding Sound Design for a Musical
Gareth Owen, MJ: The Musical
Ian Dickinson for Autograph, Company
Paul Gatehouse, Six
Kai Harada, Kimberly Akimbo

Outstanding Wig and Hair
David Brian Brown, Mrs. Doubtfire
Matthew B. Armentrout, Paradise Square
Paul Huntley, Diana
Charles LaPointe, MJ: The Musical

Outstanding Solo Performance
Kristina Wong, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, New York Theatre Workshop
Alex Edelman, Just for Us, The Cherry Lane Theatre
Arturo Luís Soria, Ni Mi Madre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

The Chase Award for Unique Theatrical Experience
Seven Deadly Sins, Tectonic Theater Project & Madison Wells Live

Outstanding Adaptation
Merry Wives, by Jocelyn Bioh, The Public Theater Free Shakespeare in the Park
The Alchemist, by Jeffrey Hatcher, Red Bull Theater

Outstanding Puppet Design
James Ortiz, The Skin of Our Teeth
Amanda Villalobos, Wolf Play, Soho Rep.
Rockefeller Productions, Winnie the Pooh, The Hundred Acre Theatre at Theatre Row

Harold Prince Lifetime Achievement Award
In four decades as playwright, novelist, actor, and director, Alice Childress (1912-1994) challenged racism with engrossing stories and memorable characters. When a New York producer demanded revisions to soften the impact of Trouble in Mind, Childress withdrew the script. Sixty-five years later, the Drama Desk celebrates the long-delayed Broadway premiere of this timeless masterpiece and salutes Childress as a towering figure in contemporary theater history.

Ensemble Award
In Six, Adrianna Hicks, Andrea Macasaet, Brittney Mack, Abby Mueller, Samantha Pauly, and Anna Uzele bring to musical life the women who married England's King Henry VIII. The fanciful result is a buoyant dramatization of their individually purposeful and collectively empowering journeys.

The Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award
This season, as a woman hiding her brother from the Taliban in Sylvia Khoury's Selling Kabul and an English instructor straddling two very different cultures in Sanaz Toossi's English, Marjan Neshat embodied disparate characters so fully that it was hard to recognize the single actor in the two roles. Whether in drama or comedy, Neshat mines the playwright's text for a vast panoply of emotions that yield vivid, intricate portrayals of the parts she undertakes.

Additional Special Awards

Dede Ayite seems to have costumed half the actors of this theater season with her designs for Merry Wives, Seven Deadly Sins, The Last of the Love Letters, Chicken & Biscuits, Slave Play, Nollywood Dreams, American Buffalo, and How I Learned to Drive. Whether dressing working-class Marylanders of the 1960s, amateur criminals of the 1970s, or West African immigrants in today's Harlem, Ayite has a knack for conveying characters' means, values, and aspirations before the actors utter a word.

Adam Rigg devised wildly varying scenic designs this season including: a house in wood, shadow, and reflective glass that draws the audience into the Flint, Michigan water crisis in Cullud Wattah; a community cul-de-sac where trauma and history are celebrated in On Sugarland; and the falling walls, flower-covered hillsides, and functional seaside fun ride of The Skin of Our Teeth.

With the category-defying Oratorio for Living Things, Heather Christian aims to encompass all human existence in a single inventive and startlingly beautiful work. In times of pandemic, war, and social upheaval, Christian's work (directed by Lee Sunday Evans and brought to life by a superb cast and creative team) is an awe-inspiring reminder that, even in the darkest times, there will always be artistic peaks to scale.