Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Choreography |
Location | New York City |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Drama Desk |
First awarded | 1969 |
Currently held by | Casey Nicholaw for Some Like It Hot (2023) |
Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City.
Year | Choreographer | Production |
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1969 | ||
Grover Dale | Billy |
Year | Choreographer | Production |
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1970 | ||
Ron Field | Applause | |
1971 | ||
Michael Bennett | Follies | |
Donald Saddler | No, No, Nanette | |
1972 | ||
Patricia Birch | Grease | |
Jean Erdman | Two Gentlemen of Verona | |
1973 | ||
Bob Fosse | Pippin | |
1974 | ||
Patricia Birch | Candide | |
1975 | ||
George Faison | The Wiz | |
Dennis Denehy | The Lieutenant | |
Roger Morgan | Saturday, Sun, Moon | |
Donald Saddler | Good News | |
Margo Sappington | Where's Charley? | |
1976 | ||
Michael Bennett | A Chorus Line | |
Patricia Birch | Pacific Overtures | |
Donald Saddler | The Robber Bridegroom | |
Billy Wilson | Bubbling Brown Sugar | |
1977 | ||
Peter Gennaro | Annie | |
Patricia Birch | Music Is | |
Dan Siretta | Going Up | |
1978 | ||
Bob Fosse | Dancin' | |
Arthur Faria | Ain't Misbehavin' | |
Geoffrey Holder | Timbuktu! | |
Tommy Tune | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | |
1979 | ||
Bob Avian and Michael Bennett | Ballroom | |
Larry Fuller | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | |
Henry LeTang and Billy Wilson | Eubie! | |
Dan Siretta | Tip-Toes |
Year | Choreographer | Production |
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1980 | ||
Tommy Tune and Thommie Walsh | A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine | |
Larry Fuller | Evita | |
Mary Kyte | Tintypes | |
Joe Layton | Barnum | |
1981 | ||
Gower Champion | 42nd Street | |
Graciela Daniele | The Pirates of Penzance | |
1982 | — | |
1983 | ||
Tommy Tune and Thommie Walsh | My One and Only | |
Peter Martins and Donald Saddler | On Your Toes | |
1984, 1985 | — | |
1986 | ||
Bob Fosse | Big Deal | |
Gene Kelly and Twyla Tharp | Singin' in the Rain | |
Peter Martins | Song and Dance | |
1987 | — | |
1988 | ||
Michael Smuin | Anything Goes | |
Grover Dale | ||
Gillian Lynne | The Phantom of the Opera | |
1989 | — |
Year | Choreographer | Production |
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2020 | ||
Sonya Tayeh | Moulin Rouge! | |
Camille A. Brown | for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf | |
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | West Side Story | |
Keone Madrid and Mari Madrid | Beyond Babel | |
Kathleen Marshall | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | |
Travis Wall | The Wrong Man | |
2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City [1] | |
2022 | ||
Bill T. Jones, Garrett Coleman and Jason Oremus (Irish + Hammerstep), Gelan Lambert and Chloe Davis (associates) | Paradise Square | |
Ayodele Casel (tap choreography) | Funny Girl | |
Carrie-Anne Ingrouille | Six | |
Liam Steel | Company | |
Christopher Wheeldon, Michael Balderrama (associate), Rich + Tone Talauega (Michael Jackson movement) | MJ | |
2023 | Casey Nicholaw | Some Like It Hot |
Andy Blankenbuehler | Only Gold | |
Tislarm Bouie | the bandaged place | |
Edgar Godineaux | The Harder They Come | |
Susan Stroman | New York, New York | |
Jenifer Weber | KPOP |
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