Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play

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Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Scenic Design
Awarded forOutstanding Scenic Design of a Play
LocationNew York City
CountryUnited States
Presented byDrama Desk
First awarded1996
Currently held by Tim Hatley for Life of Pi (2023)
Websitedramadesk.org (defunct)

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for a Play 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.

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The award was established in 1969, with the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design being presented each year to any play or musical production. Starting in 1996, 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.

Winners and nominees

1990s

YearDesignerProduction
1996
Scott Bradley Seven Guitars
Derek McLane and Mark McKennaThe Monogamist
Neil Patel Quills
Narelle Sissons Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Julie Taymor and Christine Jones The Green Bird
Tony Walton A Fair Country
1997
David Gallo and Jan HartleyBunny Bunny
Robert Brill The Rehearsal
Marina DraghiciThe Skriker
Derek McLane Present Laughter
James Noone The Gin Game
1998
The Quay Brothers The Chairs
Loy ArcenasBallad of Yachiyo
Chris Barreca Three Days of Rain
John Lee Beatty Ivanov
Santo Loquasto Milansky/Zilisnky or 'Schmucks'
Derek McLane Misalliance
1999
Richard Hoover Not About Nightingales
John Lee Beatty The Mystery of Irma Vep
Maria Björnson Britannicus and Phèdre
Bob Crowley Twelfth Night
Allen Moyer That Championship Season
James Noone Night Must Fall

2000s

YearDesignerProduction
2000
David Gallo Jitney
Derek McLane East is East
James Noone The Time of the Cuckoo
Rob OdorisioAn Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf
Neil Patel Dinner with Friends
Tony Walton Uncle Vanya
2001
Bob Crowley The Invention of Love
John Lee Beatty Comic Potential
Jeff Cowie The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
David Gallo King Hedley II
Thomas Lynch Old Money
Dean TaucherTabletop
2002
Tim Hatley Private Lives
John Lee Beatty Morning's at Seven
Michael BrownWorld of Mirth
David Gallo Wonder of the World
Derek McLane The Women
Douglas Stein and Rupert Bohle36 Views
2003
John Lee Beatty Dinner at Eight
John Lee Beatty My Old Lady
Troy HourieTemporary Help
Scott Pask Take Me Out
Neil Patel Endpapers
B.T. WhitehallShanghai Moon
2004
John Lee Beatty Twentieth Century
Scott BradleyThe Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Ralph Funicello Henry IV
David Korins Blackbird
Andrew LiebermanWintertime
Derek McLane I Am My Own Wife
2005
Santo Loquasto Glengarry Glen Ross
Robert Brill A Streetcar Named Desire
Marisa Frantz Frankenstein
Nathan Heverin Outward Bound
Richard Hoover After the Fall
David KorinsOrange Flower Water
2006
Michael Yeargan Awake and Sing!
Roger HannaWalking Down Broadway
Eugene Lee The Ruby Sunrise
Derek McLane Abigail's Party
Robert Wilson Peer Gynt
Michael Yeargan Seascape
2007
Bob Crowley and Scott Pask The Coast of Utopia
David Gallo Radio Golf
David KorinsEssential Self-Defense
Jack Goes Boating
Garin MarschallHell House
Scott Pask Blackbird
2008
Scott Pask Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Beowulf BorittSpain
Scott Bradley Eurydice
David Korins Hunting and Gathering
Santo Loquasto Trumpery
Clint RamosThe Return of the Prodigal
2009
David KorinsWhy Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them
Dale Ferguson Exit the King
Rob Howell The Norman Conquests
Neil Patel Fifty Words
Derek McLane 33 Variations
Walt Spangler Desire Under the Elms

2010s

YearDesignerProduction
2016
Christopher Oram Hughie
Riccardo HernandezRed Speedo
Mimi LienJohn
G. W. MercierHead of Passes
Derek McLane Fully Committed
2017
Nigel Hook The Play That Goes Wrong
David Gallo Jitney
Laura Jellinek A Life
Stewart Laing The Hairy Ape
Douglas W. Schmidt The Front Page
2018
Miriam Buether Three Tall Women
Bunny Christie People, Places and Things
Lizzie Clachan Yerma
Maruti EvansKill Move Paradise
Louisa Thompson In the Blood
2019
Matt Saunders"Daddy"
Miriam Buether The Jungle
Es Devlin Girls & Boys
Maruti EvansThe Peculiar Patriot
Mimi Lien Fairview

2020s

YearDesignerProduction
2020
Clint Ramos Grand Horizons
Catherine Cornell Mac Beth
Adam Rigg Fefu and Her Friends
Paul SteinbergJudgment Day
B.T. WhitehillThe Confession of Lily Dare
2021No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City [1]
2022
Takeshi Kata Clyde's
Beowulf Boritt Merry Wives
Wilson ChinPass Over
Marsha GinsbergEnglish
Junghyun Georgia LeeKristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
2023 Tim Hatley Life of Pi
Jason Ardizzone-West Wedding Band
Beowulf Boritt Ohio State Murders
dotsPublic Obscenities
Natasha JenkinsLove
John McDermottChains


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