Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Puppet Design

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Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Puppet Design
Awarded forOutstanding Puppet Design
LocationNew York City
CountryUnited States
Presented byDrama Desk
First awarded1998
Currently held byRay Wetmore, JR Goodman, and Camille Labarre for Water for Elephants (2024)
Websitedramadesk.org (defunct)

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Puppetry 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 first presented at the 1998 ceremony, as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Puppet Design, [1] then suspended from use until the 2017 ceremony. The current name was introduced as of the 2023 ceremony.

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Unlike some Drama Desk Awards, the award for Outstanding Puppetry combines plays and musicals into a single category.

Winners and nominees

1990s

YearDesignerProduction
1998 [1] Julie Taymor and Michael Curry The Lion King
The Big Nazo StudioJackie: An American Life
Bruce Schwartz Ballad of Yachiyo
Basil Twist Tell-Tale

2010s

YearDesignerProduction
2017 [2] Basil Twist Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Lyndie Wright and Sarah Wright946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
2018 [3]
Michael Curry Frozen
Finn Caldwell and Nick Barnes Angels in America
Charlie Kanev, Sarah Nolan, and Jonathan LevinA Hunger Artist
Vandy WoodThe Artificial Jungle
2019 [4]
Sonny Tilders King Kong
Michael Curry Beetlejuice
Tschabalala Self Daddy

2020s

YearDesignerProduction
2020 [5] Raphael MishlerTumacho
Rockefeller ProductionsPaddington Gets in a Jam
Amanda VillalobosIs This a Room
2021No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City [6]
2022 [7] [8]
James Ortiz The Skin of Our Teeth
Amanda VillalobosWolf Play
Rockefeller Productions Winnie the Pooh
2023
Nick Barnes & Finn Caldwell Life of Pi
John Leader Wuthering Heights
James Ortiz (design), Kennedy Kanagawa (as Milky White) Into the Woods
Kirjan WaageThe Immortal Jellyfish Girl
2024
Ray Wetmore, JR Goodman, and Camille Labarre Water for Elephants
Matt AchesonHotel Happy
Adrian Kohler & Handspring Puppet Company Life & Times of Michael K
David ValentinePoor Yella Rednecks

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