Drama Desk Award Winners for 2020
Outstanding Musical
A Strange Loop at Playwrights Horizons by Michael R. Jackson
Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Little Shop of Horrors at the Westside Theatre
Outstanding Actor in a Play
Edmund Donovan in Greater Clements
Outstanding Actress in a Play
Liza Colón-Zayas in Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Larry Owens in A Strange Loop
Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Adrienne Warren in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Paul Hilton in The Inheritance
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Lois Smith in The Inheritance
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Christian Borle in Little Shop of Horrors
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Lauren Patten in Jagged Little Pill
Outstanding Director of a Play
Stephen Daldry for The Inheritance
Outstanding Director of a Musical
Stephen Brackett for A Strange Loop
The LaDuca Award for Outstanding Choreography
Sonya Tayeh for Moulin Rouge!
Outstanding Music
Dave Malloy for Octet
Outstanding Lyrics
Michael R. Jackson for A Strange Loop
Outstanding Book of a Musical
Michael R. Jackson for A Strange Loop
Outstanding Orchestrations
Tom Kitt for Jagged Little Pill
Outstanding Music in a Play
Martha Redbone for for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
The Hudson Scenic Studio Award for Outstanding Set Design of a Play
Clint Ramos for Grand Horizons
Outstanding Set Design for a Musical
Derek McLane for Moulin Rouge!
Outstanding Costume Design for a Play
Rachel Townsend and Jessica Jahn for The Confession of Lily Dare
Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical
Catherine Zuber for Moulin Rouge!
Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play
Heather Gilbert for The Sound Inside
Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical
Justin Townsend for Moulin Rouge!
Outstanding Projection Design
Luke Halls for West Side Story
Outstanding Sound Design in a Play
Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid for The Inheritance
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical
Peter Hylenski for Moulin Rouge!
Outstanding Wig and Hair
Campbell Young Associates for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Outstanding Solo Performance
Laura Linney in My Name Is Lucy Barton
Unique Theatrical Experience
Is This A Room at the Vineyard Theatre
Outstanding Fight Choreography
Thomas Schall for A Soldier’s Play
Outstanding Adaptation
A Christmas Carol by Jack Thorne
Outstanding Puppet Design
Raphael Mishler for Tumacho
Ensemble Award: Octet at Signature Theatre Company
Sam Norkin Award: Actress Mary Bacon; The Actors Fund, Stars in the House hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley; The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit; WP Theater and Julia Miles; and intimacy coordinator Claire Warden
Award Totals
A Strange Loop – 5
The Inheritance – 5
Moulin Rouge! – 5
Little Shop of Horrors – 2
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical – 2
A Soldier’s Play – 2
Jagged Little Pill – 2
Greater Clements – 1
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven – 1
Octet – 1
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf – 1
Grand Horizons – 1
The Sound Inside – 1
West Side Story – 1
The Confession of Lily Dare – 1
My Name is Lucy Barton – 1
Is This A Room – 1
A Christmas Carol – 1
Tumacho – 1
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RAVEN SNOOK