Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design
Awarded for	Outstanding Costume Design
Location	New York City
Country	United States
Presented by	Drama Desk
First award	1969
Final award	2015
Website	dramadesk.org (defunct)

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design was 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. The award was first presented in 1969, for work in either a play or musical production. It was retired after the 2015 presentation, replaced by separate play and musical categories.

Winners and nominees

Key

  and bold indicates the winner.

1960s

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
1969
	Tanya Moiseiwitsch	The House of Atreus	[1]
	Patricia Zipprodt	1776
Zorba

1970s

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
1970
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Peer Gynt	[2]
	Willa Kim	Promenade
Operation Sidewinder
Freddy Wittop	A Patriot for Me
1971
	Florence Klotz	Follies	[3]
Raoul Pene Du Bois	No, No, Nanette
1972
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Two Gentlemen of Verona	[4]
Willa Kim	The Screens
1973
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Much Ado About Nothing	[5]
Patricia Zipprodt	Pippin
1974
	Franne Lee	Candide	[6]
	Carrie Robbins	Over Here!
The Iceman Cometh
1975
	Geoffrey Holder	The Wiz	[7]
	Willa Kim	Goodtime Charley
	John Napier	Equus
	Carl Toms	Sherlock Holmes
	Fred Voelpel	Seascape
1976
	Florence Klotz	Pacific Overtures	[8]
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Trelawny of the 'Wells'
	Bernard Johnson	Bubbling Brown Sugar
	Ann Roth	The Royal Family
	Albert Wolsky	A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
		They Knew What They Wanted
1977
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Annie	[9]
	John Gunter	Comedians
	Carol Oditz	The Crazy Locomotive
	Nancy Potts	Porgy and Bess
	Albert Wolsky	Sly Fox
1978
	Florence Klotz	On the Twentieth Century	[10]
	Zack Brown	Saint Joan
		Tartuffe
	Edward Gorey	Dracula
	Geoffrey Holder	Timbuktu!
1979
	Patricia Zipprodt	King of Hearts	[11] [12]
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Ballroom
	Franne Lee	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Steven Rubin	On Golden Pond
	Julie Weiss	The Elephant Man

1980s

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
1980
	Pierre Balmain	Happy New Year	[13]
	Rostislav Doboujinsky	Heartaches of a Pussycat
	Tazeena Firth and Timothy O'Brien	Evita
	Linda Fisher	Morning's at Seven
	William Ivey Long	The 1940's Radio Hour
1981
	Theoni V. Aldredge	42nd Street	[14]
	Patricia McGourty	The Pirates of Penzance
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Onward Victoria
	John Bury	Amadeus
Patricia Zipprodt	Fools
1982
	William Ivey Long	Nine	[15]
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Dreamgirls
	Robert Fletcher	Othello
1983
	John Napier	Cats	[16]
	Zack Brown	On Your Toes
	Patricia McGourty	Death of Von Richthofen Witnessed from Earth
	Rita Ryack	My One and Only
	Patricia Zipprodt	Alice in Wonderland
1984
	Theoni V. Aldredge	La Cage aux Folles	[17]
	Jane Greenwood	The Golden Age
	Ann Hould-Ward and Patricia Zipprodt	Sunday in the Park with George
	Gene Lakin	Ah, Wilderness!
1985
	Alexander Reid	Much Ado About Nothing	[18]
	Patricia McGourty	Big River
	Robert Morgan	The Loves of Anatol
	Carrie Robbins	The Octette Bridge Club
	Ann Roth	Design for Living
	Rita Ryack	Digby
1986
	Lindsay W. Davis	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	[19]
	Joseph G. Aulisi	Precious Sons
	Jane Greenwood	The Iceman Cometh
1987
	John Napier	Starlight Express	[20]
	Bob Crowley	Les Liaisons Dangereuses
	Ann Curtis	Me and My Girl
	William Ivey Long	Smile
1988
	Maria Björnson	The Phantom of the Opera	[21] [22]
	Ann Hould-Ward	Into the Woods
	Eiko Ishioka	M. Butterfly
	Tony Walton	Anything Goes
1989
	William Ivey Long	Lend Me a Tenor	[23] [24]
	Joseph G. Aulisi	Rumors
	Willa Kim	Legs Diamond

1990s

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
1990
	Santo Loquasto	Grand Hotel	[25] [26]
	Jess Goldstein	When She Danced
	Florence Klotz	City of Angels
	Robert Locke and Jennifer Arnold	The Lady in Question
1991
	Patricia Zipprodt	Shogun: The Musical	[27] [28]
	Richard Hudson	La Bête
	Toni-Leslie James, Stephen Kaplin and Barbara Pollitt	Caucasian Chalk Circle
	Santo Loquasto	Lost in Yonkers
1992
	William Ivey Long	Guys and Dolls	[29]
	Gabriel Berry	'Tis Pity She's a Whore
	Toni-Leslie James	Jelly's Last Jam
	William Ivey Long	Crazy for You
1993
	Florence Klotz	Kiss of the Spider Woman	[30] [31]
	Marie-Helene Bouvet and Nathalie Thomas	Les Atrides
	Elizabeth Fried	Brother Truckers
	Melina Root	As You Like It
1994
	Howard Crabtree	Whoop-Dee-Doo!	[32]
	Jane Greenwood	Passion
	Bob Mackie	The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public
	Patricia Zipprodt	My Fair Lady
1995
	Florence Klotz	Show Boat	[33] [34]
	Judith Dolan	The Petrified Prince
	Jess Goldstein	Love! Valour! Compassion!
	Jane Greenwood	The Heiress
	Stephen Brimson Lewis	Indiscretions
	William Ivey Long	A Christmas Carol
1996
	Roger Kirk	The King and I	[35] [36]
	Jane Greenwood	Sylvia
	Constance Hoffman and Julie Taymor	The Green Bird
	Toni-Leslie James	The Tempest
	Michael Krass	Entertaining Mr Sloane
	Angel Wendt	Rent
1997
	Howard Crabtree	When Pigs Fly	[37] [38] [39]
	Marina Draghici	The Skriker
	Michael Krass	The Rehearsal
	G.W. Mercier and Julie Taymor	Juan Darien
	Martin Pakledinaz	The Life
	Ann Roth	Present Laughter
1998
	Julie Taymor	The Lion King	[40] [41]
	Argemira Affonso	Forever Tango
	William Ivey Long	Cabaret
	Santo Loquasto	Ragtime
	Catherine Zuber	Ivanov
		Triumph of Love
1999
	Lez Brotherston	Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake	[42] [43] [44]
	Alvin Colt	Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act
	Jess Goldstein	The Mineola Twins
	William Ivey Long	The Mystery of Irma Vep
	John David Ridge	Ring Round the Moon
	Catherine Zuber	Twelfth Night

2000s

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
2000
	Martin Pakledinaz	Kiss Me, Kate	[45] [46]
	Jonathan Bixby and Gregory Gale	The Country Club
	Boyd Graham	The Big Bang
	William Ivey Long	The Music Man
	Martin Pakledinaz	The Wild Party
	Kevin Pollard	Shockheaded Peter
2001
	William Ivey Long	The Producers	[47] [48]
	Linda Cho	Princess Turandot
	Roger Kirk	42nd Street
	Bob Mackie	Pete 'n' Keely
	Chris March, Dana Peter Porras and Richard Sanchez	Christmas with the Crawfords
	Anthony Powell	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2002
	Isaac Mizrahi	The Women	[49] [50]
	Jenny Beavan	Private Lives
	Bob Crowley	Sweet Smell of Success
	Susan Hilferty	Into the Woods
	Dick Magnanti	Reefer Madness
	Martin Pakledinaz	Thoroughly Modern Millie
2003
	William Ivey Long	Hairspray	[51] [52] [53]
	Michael Bottari and Ronald Case	Shanghai Moon
	Jess Goldstein	Enchanted April
	Eiko Ishioka	Cirque du Soleil: Varekai
	Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie	La Bohème
	Catherine Zuber	Dinner at Eight
2004
	Susan Hilferty	Wicked	[54] [55] [56]
	Jess Goldstein	Henry IV
	Jenny Mannis	Animal Farm
	Robert A. Prior and Lisa Leighton	Ramayana 2K3
	Mark Thompson	Bombay Dreams
	Catherine Zuber	Intimate Apparel
2005
	Tim Hatley	Monty Python's Spamalot	[57] [58]
	Lez Brotherston	Play Without Words
	William Ivey Long	La Cage aux Folles
	Jeff Mahshie	Hurlyburly
	Anthony Ward	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
	Catherine Zuber	The Light in the Piazza
2006
	Gregg Barnes	The Drowsy Chaperone	[59] [60]
	Eric Becker	Abigail's Party
	Gregory Gale	The Wedding Singer
	William Ivey Long	Grey Gardens
	Jacques Reynaud	Peer Gynt
	Anita Yavich	The Wooden Breeks
2007
	Catherine Zuber	The Coast of Utopia	[61] [62] [63]
	Mara Blumenfeld	Lookingglass Alice
	Judith Dolan	LoveMusik
	William Ivey Long	Curtains
	Santo Loquasto	Suddenly, Last Summer
	Robert Morgan	Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
2008
	Katrina Lindsay	Les Liaisons Dangereuses	[64] [65] [66]
	Mara Blumenfeld	The Glorious Ones
	Michael Bottari, Ronald Case and Jessica Jahn	Die, Mommie, Die!
	Ann Hould-Ward	A Catered Affair
	Ana Kuzmanic	August: Osage County
	William Ivey Long	Young Frankenstein
2009
	Tim Hatley	Shrek the Musical	[67] [68] [69]
	Rob Howell	The Norman Conquests
	William Ivey Long	9 to 5
	Michael McDonald	Hair
	Martin Pakledinaz	Blithe Spirit
	Carrie Robbins	Irving Berlin's White Christmas

2010s

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
2010
	Matthew Wright	La Cage aux Folles	[70]
	Antonia Ford-Roberts and Bob Flanagan	The Emperor Jones
	Clint Ramos	So Help Me God!
	Bobby Frederick Tilley II	Lizzie Borden
	David Zinn	In the Next Room
2011
	Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner	Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	[71] [72] [73]
	Desmond Heeley	The Importance of Being Earnest
	Ann Hould-Ward	A Free Man of Color
	Martin Pakledinaz	Anything Goes
	Ann Roth	The Book of Mormon
Paloma Young	Peter and the Starcatcher
2012
	Gregg Barnes	Follies	[74] [75] [76]
	ESosa	By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
	William Ivey Long	Lucky Guy
	Jessica Pabst	She Kills Monsters
	Martin Pakledinaz	Nice Work If You Can Get It
	Catherine Zuber	Death Takes a Holiday
2013
	William Ivey Long	Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella	[77] [78]
	Amy Clark and Martin Pakledinaz	Chaplin
	Dominique Lemieux	Pippin
	Chris March	Chris March's The Butt-Cracker Suite! A Trailer Park Ballet
	Loren Shaw	Restoration Comedy
	Paloma Young	Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
2014
	William Ivey Long	Bullets Over Broadway	[79] [80] [81]
	Constance Hoffman	A Midsummer Night's Dream
	Zane Pihlstrom	Nutcracker Rouge
	Loren Shaw	The Mysteries
	Jenny Tiramani	Twelfth Night
	David C. Woolard	The Heir Apparent
2015
	Catherine Zuber	Gigi	[82] [83]
	Bob Crowley	An American in Paris
		The Audience
	Christopher Oram	Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
	Paul Tazewell	Hamilton
	Andrea Varga	The Fatal Weakness

Multiple wins

7 wins

• William Ivey Long

6 wins

• Theoni V. Aldredge

5 wins

• Florence Klotz

4 wins

• Patricia Zipprodt

2 wins

• Willa Kim
• John Napier
• Catherine Zuber
• Gregg Barnes
• Howard Crabtree
• Tim Hatley

Multiple nominations

20 nominations

• William Ivey Long

10 nominations

• Theoni V. Aldredge

8 nominations

• Patricia Zipprodt
• Catherine Zuber
• Martin Pakledinaz

6 nominations

• Florence Klotz

5 nominations

• Jane Greenwood
• Jess Goldstein

4 nominations

• Willa Kim
• Ann Roth
• Ann Hould-Ward
• Santo Loquasto

3 nominations

• Bob Crowley
• Carrie Robbins
• John Napier
• Zack Brown
• Patricia McGourty
• Toni-Leslie James
• Julie Taymor

2 nominations

• Gregg Barnes
• Geoffrey Holder
• Franne Lee
• Albert Wolsky
• Rita Ryack
• Robert Morgan
• Joseph G. Aulisi
• Eiko Ishioka
• Howard Crabtree
• Bob Mackie
• Judith Dolan
• Roger Kirk
• Michael Krass
• Constance Hoffman
• Lez Brotherston
• Chris March
• Susan Hilferty
• Tim Hatley
• Mara Blumenfeld
• Michael Bottari
• Ronald Case
• Paloma Young
• Loren Shaw

See also

• Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design
• Tony Award for Best Costume Design

References

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