Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Director of a Play |
Location | New York City |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Drama Desk |
First awarded | 1975 |
Currently held by | Daniel Aukin for Stereophonic (2024) |
Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play 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. The awards were established in 1955, with the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director being presented each year to a director from any play or musical production. Starting in 1975, the singular director's award was replaced by separate play and musical categories.
Year | Director | Production |
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1975 | ||
John Dexter | Equus | |
Frank Dunlop | Sherlock Holmes | |
Athol Fugard | Sizwe Banzi Is Dead | |
The Island | ||
Peter H. Hunt | Goodtime Charlie | |
Ron Link | Women Behind Bars | |
Gene Saks | Same Time, Next Year | |
1976 | ||
Ellis Rabb | The Royal Family | |
Edward Albee | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
Arvin Brown | Dual Bill | |
Mike Nichols | Streamers | |
Stephen Porter | They Knew What They Wanted | |
Tom Signorelli | Lamppost Reunion | |
1977 | ||
Mike Nichols | Comedians | |
Alan Schneider | A Texas Trilogy | |
Frank Dunlop | The New York Idea | |
Tony Giordano | G.R. Point | |
Ulu Grosbard | American Buffalo | |
Oz Scott | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf | |
1978 | ||
Melvin Bernhardt | Da | |
Peter Bennett | Dracula | |
Joseph Chaikin | The Dybbuk | |
Mike Nichols | The Gin Game | |
Steven Robman | Uncommon Women | |
Garland Wright | K | |
1979 | ||
Jack Hofsiss | The Elephant Man | |
Alan Ayckbourn | Bedroom Farce | |
John Madden | Wings | |
Stephen Porter | Man and Superman | |
Horacena J. Taylor | Nevis Mt. Dew | |
Ted Weiant | The Miracle Worker |
Year | Director | Production |
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2020 | ||
Stephen Daldry | The Inheritance | |
Jessica Blank | Coal Country | |
John Ortiz | Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven | |
Tina Satter | Is This A Room | |
Erica Schmidt | Mac Beth | |
2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City [1] | |
2022 | ||
Rebecca Frecknall | Sanctuary City | |
Knud Adams | English | |
Saheem Ali | Merry Wives | |
Taibi Magar | Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 | |
Whitney White | On Sugarland | |
2023 | ||
Max Webster | Life of Pi | |
Zi Alikhan | On That Day in Amsterdam | |
Shayok Misha Chowdhury | Public Obscenities | |
Miranda Cromwell | Death of a Salesman | |
Adam Meggido | Peter Pan Goes Wrong | |
Alexander Zeldin | Love | |
2024 [2] | ||
Daniel Aukin | Stereophonic | |
Rupert Goold | The Hunt | |
Kenny Leon | Purlie Victorious | |
Lila Neugebauer | Appropriate | |
Ciarán O’Reilly | Philadelphia, Here I Come! | |
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