| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical |
| Location | New York City |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Drama Desk |
| First award | 2010 |
| Currently held by | Peter Hylenski for Just in Time (2025) |
| Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound 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 1980, with the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design being presented each year to any play or musical production. Starting in 2010, the singular award was replaced by separate play and musical categories.
| Year | Designer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||
| Peter Hylenski | Moulin Rouge! | |
| Tom Gibbons | West Side Story | |
| Kai Harada | Soft Power | |
| Hidenori Nakajo | Octet | |
| Nevin Steinberg | The Wrong Man | |
| 2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City [1] | |
| 2022 | ||
| Gareth Owen | MJ | |
| Ian Dickinson for Autograph | Company | |
| Paul Gatehouse | Six | |
| Kai Harada | Kimberly Akimbo | |
| 2023 | ||
| Scott Lehrer and Alex Neumann | Into the Woods | |
| Peter Hylenski | Almost Famous | |
| John Shivers | Shucked | |
| Joanna Lynne Staub | Weightless | |
| Jon Weston | Parade | |
| 2024 | ||
| Nick Lidster for Autograph | Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club | |
| Cody Spencer | The Outsiders | |
| Walter Trarbach | Water for Elephants | |
| Jason Crystal | Suffs | |
| Kai Harada and Joshua Millican | Dead Outlaw | |
| 2025 [2] | ||
| Peter Hylenski | Just in Time | |
| Adam Fisher | Sunset Blvd. | |
| Scott Lehrer | Gypsy | |
| Mick Potter | Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | |
| Dan Moses Schreier | Floyd Collins | |