Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical |
Location | New York City |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Drama Desk |
First awarded | 2009 |
Currently held by | Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim for The Outsiders (2024) |
Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical is 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 established in 1975, with the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design being presented each year to any play or musical production. For 2009, the singular award was replaced by separate play and musical categories, but then merged again from 2010 to 2015; the separate play and musical categories have again co-existed since 2016.
Year | Designer | Production |
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2009 | ||
Rick Fisher | Billy Elliot the Musical | |
Kevin Adams | Hair | |
Jules Fisher and Kenneth Posner | 9 to 5 | |
Jason Lyons | Clay | |
Sinéad McKenna | Improbable Frequency | |
Richard Pilbrow | A Tale of Two Cities |
Year | Designer | Production |
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2016 | Justin Townsend | American Psycho |
Jane Cox | The Color Purple | |
Jake DeGroot | SeaWife | |
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer | Shuffle Along | |
Ben Stanton | Spring Awakening | |
2017 | ||
Bradley King | Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 | |
Jeff Croiter | Bandstand | |
Mark Henderson | Sunset Boulevard | |
Bradley King | Hadestown | |
Amy Mae | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | |
Malcolm Rippeth | 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips | |
2018 | ||
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer | Once on This Island | |
Louisa Adamson and Christian Barry | Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story | |
Amith Chandrashaker | The Lucky Ones | |
Brian MacDevitt | Carousel | |
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew | KPOP | |
2019 | ||
Bradley King | Hadestown | |
Adam Honoré | Carmen Jones | |
Jamie Roderick | Midnight at the Never Get | |
Barbara Samuels | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future | |
Scott Zielinski | Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! |
Year | Designer | Production |
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2020 | ||
Justin Townsend | Moulin Rouge! | |
Betsy Adams | The Wrong Man | |
Jane Cox | The Secret Life of Bees | |
Herrick Goldman | Einstein's Dreams | |
Bruno Poet | Tina: The Tina Turner Musical | |
2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City [1] | |
2022 | ||
Natasha Katz | MJ | |
Bradley King | Flying Over Sunset | |
Natasha Katz | Diana | |
Jennifer Tipton | Intimate Apparel | |
2023 | Natasha Katz | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
Ken Billington | New York, New York | |
Jeff Croiter | Only Gold | |
Heather Gilbert | Parade | |
David Grill | Bob Fosse's Dancin' | |
2024 | Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim | The Outsiders |
Lap Chi Chu | Suffs | |
Heather Gilbert | Dead Outlaw | |
Bradley King | Water for Elephants | |
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew | The Connector |
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