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| 2018 Drama Desk Awards winners announced | |
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| 2018 DRAMA DESK AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED Awards were presented Sunday, June 3 at The Town Hall www.DramaDeskAwards.com (Sunday, June 3, 2018) - Winners for the 63rd Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this evening at The Town Hall. The 2018 Drama Desk Awards were streamed live on www.TheaterMania.com. The full list of winners is available at the website www.DramaDeskAwards.com, and below. In keeping with Drama Desk's mission, nominators considered shows that opened on Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway during the 2017-2018 New York theater season in the same competitive categories. For the seventh consecutive year, TheaterMania presented the awards ceremony and Joey Parnes Productions produced and managed the show. Gretchen Shugart is Managing Executive Producer of the Drama Desk Awards. The Awards show was written by Bill Rosenfield (46 Beacon, True Fans, Sunshine and Shadow), and directed by Mark Waldrop (Not That Jewish, Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly, Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends). About The Drama Desk The Drama Desk was founded in 1949 to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York. The organization began presenting its awards in 1955, and it is the only critics' organization to honor achievement in the theater with competition among Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway productions in the same categories. The 2017-2018 Drama Desk Nominating Committee is composed of: David Barbour, (Lighting&Sound America - Committee Chair), Linda Buchwald (freelance: Theatre is Easy, Playbill, American Theatre, TDF Stages), Peter Filichia (Broadway Select; Broadway Radio; author, most recently, Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - St. Martin's Press), Helen Shaw (Time Out NY; Village Voice), Martha Wade Steketee (freelance; The Clyde Fitch Report, TDF Stages, HowlRound), Zachary Stewart (TheaterMania.com), Doug Strassler (Garden State Journal; Center on the Aisle; Back on the Block; TDF Stages), Charles Wright (Drama Desk President), ex officio. About TheaterMania.com Founded in 1999, TheaterMania connects the theater industry to a mass consumer audience, with comprehensive listings, news, reviews, features, interviews and video content that covers theater across the United States and the United Kingdom. TheaterMania's widely distributed email newsletters provide special offers to over 1 million subscribers. In addition to providing theaters with online marketing programs to drive ticket sales, TheaterMania's proprietary ticketing system OvationTix is used throughout America by hundreds of performing arts organizations, museums, concerts, festivals and events to process ticket sales and manage fundraising and patron information. TheaterMania owns London-based WhatsOnStage, a source for information and tickets to UK theater, and also produces the annual WhatsOnStage Awards. TheaterMania became presenter of the Drama Desk Awards in 2012. In July of 2017, TheaterMania became part of AudienceView Ticketing Corporation, a leading provider of ticketing software to major performing arts, sports and other organizations around the globe. www.DramaDeskAwards.com 2018 DRAMA DESK AWARD NOMINATIONS Outstanding Play **Admissions, by Joshua Harmon, Lincoln Center Theater Mary Jane, by Amy Herzog, New York Theatre Workshop Miles for Mary, by The Mad Ones, Playwrights Horizons People, Places & Things, by Duncan Macmillan, National Theatre/St. Ann's Warehouse/Bryan Singer Productions/Headlong School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, by Jocelyn Bioh, MCC Theater Outstanding Musical Desperate Measures, The York Theatre Company KPOP, Ars Nova/Ma-Yi Theatre Company/Woodshed Collective Mean Girls Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, 2b Theatre Company/59E59 **SpongeBob SquarePants Outstanding Revival of a Play **Angels in America Hindle Wakes, Mint Theater Company In the Blood, Signature Theatre Company Three Tall Women Travesties, Menier Chocolate Factory/Roundabout Theatre Company Outstanding Revival of a Musical Amerike-The Golden Land, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene Carousel **My Fair Lady Once on This Island Pacific Overtures, Classic Stage Company Outstanding Actor in a Play Johnny Flynn, Hangmen, Royal Court Theatre/Atlantic Theater Company **Andrew Garfield, Angels in America Tom Hollander, Travesties, Menier Chocolate Factor/Roundabout Theatre Company James McArdle, Angels in America Paul Sparks, At Home at the Zoo, Signature Theatre Company Outstanding Actress in a Play Carrie Coon, Mary Jane, New York Theatre Workshop Denise Gough, People, Places & Things, National Theatre/St. Ann's Warehouse/Bryan Singer Productions/Headlong **Glenda Jackson, Three Tall Women Laurie Metcalf, Three Tall Women Billie Piper, Yerma, Young Vic/Park Avenue Armory Outstanding Actor in a Musical Jelani Alladin, Frozen Harry Hadden-Paton, My Fair Lady Joshua Henry, Carousel Evan Ruggiero, Bastard Jones, the cell **Ethan Slater, SpongeBob SquarePants Outstanding Actress in a Musical Gizel Jiménez, Miss You Like Hell, The Public Theater LaChanze, Summer **Jessie Mueller, Carousel Ashley Park, KPOP, Ars Nova/Ma-Yi Theater Company/Woodshed Collective Daphne Rubin-Vega, Miss You Like Hell, The Public Theater Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Anthony Boyle, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Ben Edelman, Admissions, Lincoln Center Theater Brian Tyree Henry, Lobby Hero, Second Stage **Nathan Lane, Angels in America David Morse, The Iceman Cometh Gregg Mozgala, Cost of Living, Manhattan Theatre Club Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Jocelyn Bioh, In the Blood, Signature Theatre **Jamie Brewer, Amy and the Orphans, Roundabout Underground Barbara Marten, People, Places & Things, National Theatre/St. Ann's Warehouse/Bryan Singer Productions/Headlong Deirdre O'Connell, Fulfillment Center, Manhattan Theatre Club Constance Shulman, Bobbie Clearly, Roundabout Underground Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Damon Daunno, The Lucky Ones, Ars Nova Alexander Gemignani, Carousel Grey Henson, Mean Girls **Gavin Lee, SpongeBob SquarePants Tony Yazbeck, Prince of Broadway, Manhattan Theatre Club Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical **Lindsay Mendez, Carousel Kenita R. Miller, Once on This Island Ashley Park, Mean Girls Diana Rigg, My Fair Lady Kate Rockwell, Mean Girls Outstanding Director of a Play Marianne Elliott, Angels in America Jeremy Herrin, People, Places & Things, National Theatre/St. Ann's Warehouse/Bryan Singer Productions/Headlong Joe Mantello, Three Tall Women Lila Neugebauer, Miles for Mary, Playwrights Horizons Simon Stone, Yerma, Young Vic/Park Avenue Armory **John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Outstanding Director of a Musical Christian Barry, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, 2b Theatre Company/59E59 Teddy Bergman, KPOP, Ars Nova/Ma-Yi Theater Company/Woodshed Collective Jack O'Brien, Carousel **Tina Landau, SpongeBob SquarePants Bartlett Sher, My Fair Lady The LaDuca Award for Outstanding Choreography Camille A. Brown, Once on This Island Christopher Gattelli, SpongeBob SquarePants Casey Nicholaw, Mean Girls **Justin Peck, Carousel Nejla Yatkin, The Boy Who Danced on Air, Abingdon Theatre Company Outstanding Music The Bengsons, The Lucky Ones, Ars Nova/Piece by Piece Productions/Z Space Ben Caplan, Christian Barry, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, 2b Theatre Company/59E59 **David Friedman, Desperate Measures, The York Theatre Company Erin McKeown, Miss You Like Hell, The Public Theater Helen Park, Max Vernon, KPOP, Ars Nova/Ma-Yi Theater Company/Woodshed Collective Outstanding Lyrics Nell Benjamin, Mean Girls Quiara Alegría Hudes/Erin McKeown, Miss You Like Hell, Public Theatre **Peter Kellogg, Desperate Measures, The York Theatre Company Helen Park, Max Vernon, KPOP, Ars Nova/Ma-Yi Theater Company/Woodshed Collective Outstanding Book of a Musical **Tina Fey, Mean Girls Kyle Jarrow, SpongeBob Squarepants Peter Kellogg, Desperate Measures, York Theatre Company Hannah Moscovitch, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, 2B Theatre/59E59 Outstanding Orchestrations Tom Kitt, SpongeBob SquarePants Annmarie Milazzo and Michael Starobin (John Bertles and Bash the Trash, found instrument design) Once on This Island Charlie Rosen, Erin McKeown, Miss You Like Hell, Public Theater Jonathan Tunick, Pacific Overtures, Classic Stage Company **Jonathan Tunick, Carousel Outstanding Music in a Play **Imogen Heap, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Justin Hicks, Mlima's Tale, Public Theatre Amatus Karim-Ali, The Homecoming Queen, Atlantic Theater Company Justin Levine, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Public Theater Adrian Sutton, Angels in America The Hudson Scenic Studio Award for Outstanding Set Design of a Play **Miriam Buether, Three Tall Women Bunny Christie, People, Places & Things, St. Ann's Warehouse/National Theatre/Bryan Singer Productions/Headlong Lizzie Clachan, Yerma, Young Vic/Park Avenue Armory Maruti Evans, Kill Move Paradise, National Black Theatre Louisa Thompson, In the Blood, Signature Theatre Outstanding Set Design for a Musical Louisa Adamson, Christian Barry, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, 2b Theatre Company/59E59 Beowulf Boritt, Prince of Broadway, Manhattan Theatre Club Dane Laffrey, Once on This Island Santo Loquasto, Carousel **David Zinn, SpongeBob SquarePants Outstanding Costume Design for a Play Dede M. Ayite, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, MCC Theater **Jonathan Fensom, Farinelli and the King Katrina Lindsay, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Ann Roth, Three Tall Women Emilio Sosa, Venus, Signature Theatre Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical Gregg Barnes, Mean Girls Clint Ramos, Once on This Island David Zinn, SpongeBob SquarePants **Catherine Zuber, My Fair Lady Dede M. Ayite, Bella: An American Tall Tale, Playwrights Horizons Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play **Neil Austin, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Natasha Chivers, 1984 Alan C. Edwards, Kill Move Paradise, National Black Theatre Paul Gallo, Three Tall Women Paul Russell, Farinelli and the King Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical Louisa Adamson, Christian Barry, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, 2B Theatre Company/59E59 Amith Chandrashaker, The Lucky Ones **Jules Fisher, Peggy Eisenhauer, Once on This Island Brian MacDevitt, Carousel Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, KPOP, Ars Nova, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Woodshed Collective Outstanding Projection Design David Bengali, Van Gogh's Ear, Ensemble for the Romantic Century Andrezj Goulding, People, Places & Things, National Theatre/St. Ann's Warehouse/Bryan Singer Productions/Headlong Peter Nigrini, SpongeBob SquarePants Finn Ross and Adam Young, Mean Girls **Finn Ross and Ash J. Woodward, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Outstanding Sound Design in a Play Brendan Aanes, Balls, One Year Lease Theater Company/Stages Repertory Theatre/59E59 **Gareth Fry, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Tom Gibbons, 1984 Tom Gibbons, People, Places & Things, National Theatre/St. Ann's Warehouse/Bryan Singer Productions/Headlong Stefan Gregory, Yerma, Young Vic/Park Avenue Armory Palmer Hefferan, Today is My Birthday, Page 73 Productions Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical **Kai Harada, The Band's Visit Scott Lehrer, Carousel Will Pickens, KPOP, Ars Nova, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, Woodshed Collective Dan Moses Schreier, Pacific Overtures, Classic Stage Company Outstanding Wig and Hair Carole Hancock, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Campbell Young Associates, Farinelli and the King Cookie Jordan, School Girls; or The African Mean Girls Play, MCC Theater **Charles G. LaPointe, SpongeBob SquarePants Josh Marquette, Mean Girls Outstanding Solo Performance **Billy Crudup, Harry Clarke, Vineyard Theatre David Greenspan, Strange Interlude, Transport Group Jonathan Levin, A Hunger Artist, The Tank/Flint & Tinder Lesli Margherita, Who's Holiday! Sophie Melville, Iphigenia in Splott, Sherman Theatre, Cardiff/59E59 The Chase Award for Unique Theatrical Experience **Derren Brown: Secret , Atlantic Theater Company Master, Foundry Theatre Say Something Bunny! Outstanding Fight Choreography J. David Brimmer, Is God Is, Soho Rep **Steve Rankin, Carousel Unkle Dave's Fight House, Oedipus El Rey, The Public Theater/The Sol Project Outstanding Puppet Design Finn Caldwell, Nick Barnes, Angels in America **Michael Curry, Frozen Charlie Kanev, Sarah Nolen, and Jonathan Levin, A Hunger Artist, The Tank/Flint & Tinder Vandy Wood, The Artificial Jungle, Theatre Breaking Through Barriers SPECIAL AWARDS To Sean Carvajal and Edi Gathegi of Jesus Hopped the A Train whose last-minute entrances into the Signature production of this powerful play ensured it had a happy real-life ending Ensemble Award: To Nabiyah Be, MaameYaa Boafo, Paige Gilbert, Zainab Jah, Ník? Uche Kadri, Abena Mensah-Bonsu, Mirirai Sithole, and Myra Lucretia Taylor of School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play, whose characters learn the facts of life but whose portrayers taught us all a thing or two about the way things are. Sam Norkin Award: To Juan Castano, whose varied performances this season in Oedipus El Rey, A Parallelogram, and Transfers not only make a complex statement about American life but also indicate great things to come for this talented performer. |
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| re: 2018 Drama Desk Awards winners announced | |
| Posted by: lowwriter 11:18 pm EDT 06/03/18 | |
| In reply to: 2018 Drama Desk Awards winners announced - Official_Press_Release 11:15 pm EDT 06/03/18 | |
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| I liked a lot of the winners especially music and lyrics for Desperate Measures. But how did Admissions win Best Play? I thought it was the weakest one nominated. | |
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| Posted by: lowwriter 11:34 pm EDT 06/03/18 | |
| In reply to: re: 2018 Drama Desk Awards winners announced - lowwriter 11:18 pm EDT 06/03/18 | |
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| i was also surprised by Jesse Mueller's win. | |
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| Last Edit: WaymanWong 11:02 am EDT 06/04/18 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 10:55 am EDT 06/04/18 | |
| In reply to: re: 2018 Drama Desk Awards winners announced - lowwriter 11:34 pm EDT 06/03/18 | |
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| Mueller's win is no surprise. History shows that the overwhelmingly number of Drama Desk winners come from Broadway shows. I doubt that enough of the DD voters saw Park in ''KPOP'' or Jimenez or Rubin-Vega in ''Miss You Like Hell,'' both limited Off-Broadway runs. Even if the Public got enough DD voters in to ''Miss You Like Hell,'' Jimenez and Rubin-Vega could've split some votes. So it was between the two Broadway contenders: Mueller and LaChanze. ''Carousel'' had 12 DD nominations; ''Summer,'' only 1. ''Carousel'' was better reviewed than ''Summer'' and had more nominations, so Mueller benefited. It would've been a different race if the 8 Drama Desk nominators also nominated Ambrose and Kilgore (both Tony nominees), but that's showbiz. The Tony race will be more competitive with 6 nominees, but it looks like it'll be a showdown between Lenk and Ambrose. |
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| re: 2018 Drama Desk Awards winners announced | |
| Posted by: Thom915 11:19 am EDT 06/04/18 | |
| In reply to: re: 2018 Drama Desk Awards winners announced - WaymanWong 10:55 am EDT 06/04/18 | |
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| I was also surprised by Mueller's win since I thought in nominating LaChanze as sole nominee from "Summer" she might have been thought of as standing above that show and as something special (I haven't seen the show.) I agree that Kilgore should have been nominated and I am puzzed as to why she was not except for the fact that it is the Drama Desk. I am still puzzled as to why Ethan Slater was not nominated by the Drama League, not that he would have presented any competition to Glenda Jackson but with over 50 persons nominated, you would think one of the leading contenders for Tony Best Musical actor might have been recognized. As to the Tony Awards, I think that "The Bands Visit" has sort of a lock on Best Musical, Best Actress and Best Musical Score. I think most of the other awards are either going to other shows (Tina Fey should start preparing an acceptance speech for book of a musical e.g.) or are up for grabs. I hope you are going to be at the party Saturday. I look forward to meeting you. | |
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