Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Sound Design |
Location | New York City |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Drama Desk |
First awarded | 1980 |
Last awarded | 2009 |
Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design was 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 award was first presented in 1980, for work in either a play or musical production. It was retired after the 2009 ceremony, replaced by separate play and musical categories (Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical and Outstanding Sound Design in a Play).
Year | Designer | Production |
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1980 | ||
Norman L. Berman | Strider | |
Richard Peaslee | Teibele and Her Demon | |
Stanley Silverman | Bent | |
1985 | ||
John DiFusco | Tracers | |
Nigel Hess | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
Much Ado About Nothing | ||
John Malkovich | Balm in Gilead | |
1986 | ||
Otts Munderloh | The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe | |
Tom Morse | Execution of Justice | |
The Red Clay Ramblers | A Lie of the Mind |
Year | Designer | Production |
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1991 | ||
Aural Fixation | Red Scare on Sunset | |
Olu Dara | Let Me Live | |
John Gromada | Machinal | |
Janet Kalas | The Good Times Are Killing Me | |
1992 | ||
Paul Arditti | Four Baboons Adoring the Sun | |
Mark Bennett and Jim van Bergen | Lypsinka! A Day in the Life | |
Stewart Werner | Lips Together, Teeth Apart | |
1993 | ||
Steve Canyon Kennedy | The Who's Tommy | |
Rodrigo Bachler-Klein | Les Atrides | |
Dan Moses Schreier | Spic-O-Rama | |
Richard Woodbury | Wings | |
1994 | ||
John A. Leonard | Medea | |
Mark Bennett | The Lights | |
T. Richard Fitzgerald | Beauty and the Beast | |
John Gromada | Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 | |
1995 | — | |
1996 | ||
Dan Moses Schreier | Floyd Collins | |
David Van Tieghem | The Grey Zone | |
1997 | ||
John Gromada | The Skriker | |
Dan Moses Schreier | God's Heart | |
Marc Anthony Thompson | A Huey P. Newton Story | |
1998 | ||
Tony Meola | The Lion King | |
Paul Arditti | The Chairs | |
Mark Bennett | A View from the Bridge | |
Thomas Cabaniss | Mamba's Daughters | |
Rinde Eckert and Gina Leishman | Thérèse Raquin | |
David Van Tieghem | Scotland Road | |
1999 | ||
Christopher Shutt | Not About Nightingales | |
John Collins and James Johnson | House/Lights | |
Jonathan Deans | Parade | |
Fergus O'Hare | Electra | |
David Van Tieghem | Stop Kiss | |
Darron L. West | Bob |
Year | Designer | Production |
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2000 | ||
Jamie Mereness | Charlie Victor Romeo | |
Marc Gwinn | Coyote on a Fence | |
Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen | Space | |
Darron L. West | Chesapeake | |
Y2K | ||
2001 | ||
Christopher Shutt | Mnemonic | |
Mark Bennett and Michael Creason | Dogeaters | |
Bruce Ellman | Comic Potential | |
Gregory Kostroff | Lypsinka the Boxed Set | |
Mic Pool and David Bullard | The Unexpected Man | |
Jerry Vager | Up Against the Wind | |
2002 | ||
Dan Moses Schreier | Into the Woods | |
John Collins, Geoff Abbas and Jim Dawson | To You, the Birdie! | |
Mark Huang | Cressida Among the Greeks | |
Scott Lehrer | Franny's Way | |
Matthew Spiro | 36 Views | |
David Van Tieghem | The Glory of Living | |
2003 | ||
Acme Sound Partners | La Bohème | |
Mark Bennett | Julius Caesar | |
Golda's Balcony | ||
Francois Bergeron | Cirque du Soleil: Varekai | |
Janet Kalas | Take Me Out | |
Mel Mercier and David Meschter | Medea | |
2004 | ||
Dan Moses Schreier | Assassins | |
Mark Bennett | Henry IV | |
Scott Jennings | Ramayana 2K3 | |
Brian Ronan | Bug | |
David Van Tieghem | The Stendhal Syndrome | |
2005 | ||
Paul Arditti | The Pillowman | |
Acme Sound Partners | The Light in the Piazza | |
Jill DuBoff | Miss Julie | |
Spatter Pattern | ||
Jeff Lorenz | Frankenstein | |
Darron L. West | Hot 'n' Throbbing | |
2006 | ||
Steve Canyon Kennedy | Jersey Boys | |
Acme Sound Partners | See What I Wanna See | |
The Drowsy Chaperone | ||
Brian Ronan | Grey Gardens | |
The Pajama Game | ||
Dan Moses Schreier | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | |
2007 | ||
Gregory Clarke | Journey's End | |
Acme Sound Partners | In the Heights | |
Mark Bennett | The Coast of Utopia | |
Duncan Edwards | LoveMusik | |
Frank Gaeta | Dai (enough) | |
Richard Woodbury | Talk Radio | |
2008 | ||
Scott Lehrer | South Pacific | |
Adam Cork | Macbeth | |
Jorge Cousineau | Opus | |
Joseph Fosco | The Conversation | |
Mic Pool | The 39 Steps | |
Tony Smolenski, IV | Adding Machine | |
2009 | ||
Paul Arditti | Billy Elliot the Musical | |
Acme Sound Partners | Irving Berlin's White Christmas | |
Gregory Clarke | Equus | |
John Gromada | Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont | |
André J. Pluess | 33 Variations | |
John Shivers | 9 to 5 |
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