| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical |
| Location | New York City |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Drama Desk |
| First award | 1975 |
| Final award | 2022 |
| Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical was an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. The award was one of eight new acting awards first presented in 1975, when Drama Desk retired an earlier award that had made no distinction between work in plays and musicals, nor between actors and actresses, nor between lead performers and featured performers.
After the 2022 ceremony, all eight acting categories introduced in 1975 were retired. The award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, along with Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, were replaced in 2023 with the gender neutral category of Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical.
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | |||
| Christian Borle | Little Shop of Horrors | Orin Scrivello | |
| George Abud | Emojiland | Nerd Face | |
| Jay Armstrong Johnson | Scotland, PA | Banko | |
| Conrad Ricamora | Soft Power | Xue Xing | |
| Ryan Vasquez | The Wrong Man | The Man in Black | |
| 2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City [2] | ||
| 2022 | |||
| Matt Doyle | Company | Jamie | |
| Justin Austin | Intimate Apparel | George Armstrong | |
| Justin Cooley | Kimberly Akimbo | Seth | |
| Jared Grimes | Funny Girl | Eddie Ryan | |
| Tavon Olds-Sample | MJ | Michael | |
[note: citation provides nominations, does not confirm who winner was]