Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design in a Play

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Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Sound Design
Awarded forOutstanding Sound Design in a Play
LocationNew York City
CountryUnited States
Presented byDrama Desk
First awarded2010
Currently held byRyan Rumery for Stereophonic (2024)
Websitedramadesk.org (defunct)

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound 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 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.

Winners and nominees

2010s

YearDesignerProduction
2010
Fitz PattonWhen the Rain Stops Falling
Dan Bianchi and Wes Shippee Frankenstein
Dale Bigall Underground
Adam Cork ENRON
Lindsay JonesTop Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers
Elizabeth RhodesJohn Ball's In the Heat of the Night
2011
Acme Sound Partners and Cricket S. Myers Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Acme Sound Partners The Merchant of Venice
Ian Dickinson John Gabriel Borkman
Brett JarvisBaby Universe
Bray Poor Wings
Eric ShimelonisThe Hallway Trilogy
2012
John Gromada The Best Man
Quentin ChiappettaThe Navigator
Gregory ClarkeMisterman
Gareth Fry Richard III
Stowe NelsonSamuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War
Shane RettigShe Kills Monsters
2013
Mel Mercier The Testament of Mary
Ien DeNio The Pilo Family Circus
Steve FontaineLast Man Club
Christian FredericksonThrough the Yellow Hour
Lindsay JonesWild With Happy
Fergus O'Hare Macbeth
2014
Matt Tierney Machinal
M.L. DoggThe Open House
Katie DownThe Golden Dragon
Paul James Prendergast All the Way
Dan Moses Schreier Act One
Christopher ShuttLove and Information
2015
Ian Dickinson (for Autograph) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Nathan Davis The Other Mozart
Ien DenioDeliverance
Gareth Fry Let the Right One In
John Gromada Lives of the Saints (an anthology of short plays by David Ives)
Matt Tierney Our Lady of Kibeho
2016
Fitz Patton The Humans
Fitz Patton An Act of God
Miles PolaskiFulfillment
Bray PoorJohn
Ryan RumeryEmpanada Loca
2017
Gareth Fry and Pete MalkinThe Encounter
Mikhail Fiksel A Life
Brian QuijadaWhere Did We Sit on the Bus?
Leon Rothenberg Notes from the Field
Jane ShawMen on Boats
2018
Gareth Fry Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Brendan AanesBalls
Tom Gibbons 1984
People, Places and Things
Stefan Gregory Yerma
Palmer HefferanToday is My Birthday
2019
Nick Powell The Ferryman
Tyler KiefferPlano
Fitz Patton Choir Boy
Jane ShawI Was Most Alive with You
Mikaal Sulaiman Fairview

2020s

YearDesignerProduction
2020
Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid The Inheritance
Justin Ellington Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Mikhail FikselDana H.
Palmer Hefferan Fefu and Her Friends
Lee Kinney and Sanae YamadaIs This A Room
2021No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City [1]
2022
Ben and Max Ringham Cyrano de Bergerac
Tyler KiefferSeven Deadly Sins
Hidenori Nakajo and Ryan RumeryAutumn Royal
Mikaal SulaimanSanctuary City
Lee Kinney Selling Kabul
2023
Ben & Max Ringham A Doll's House
Justin Ellington Ohio State Murders
Tom Gibbons Hamlet
Josh Anio GriggLove
Lee Kinney & Daniel Kluger You Will Get Sick
Mikaal Sulaiman Fat Ham
2024
Ryan Rumery Stereophonic
Adam CorkThe Hunt
Tom Gibbons Grey House
Palmer HefferanThe Comeuppance
Bray Poor and Will Pickens Appropriate

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References

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