The 2018 Drama Desk Awards, celebrating plays and musicals on Broadway and Off-Broadway, announced this year's nominees yesterday. Among the high-scoring are the Broadway revival of Carousel with 12, and new musicals SpongeBob SquarePants and Mean Girls with 11 and 10 nods, respectively. For plays, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child crossed the ocean to snatch eight nominations.
The winners will be announced during a ceremony on June 3 at midtown Manhattan venue Town Hall. Below is the list of nominees in the design categories. For the full list, visit Variety.
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 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 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, Lincoln Center Theater
- Dede M. Ayite, Bella: An American Tall Tale, Playwrights Horizons