The Drama Desk Awards have announced the nominations for the 65th annual awards, honoring outstanding achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway. Live Design has highlighted the design nominees below. For the full list of Drama Desk nominees, visit their website.
Outstanding Scenic Design for a Play
- Catherine Cornell, Mac Beth
- Clint Ramos, Grand Horizons
- Adam Rigg, Fefu and Her Friends
- Paul Steinberg, Judgment Day
- B.T. Whitehill, The Confession of Lily Dare
Outstanding Scenic Design for a Musical
- Julian Crouch, Little Shop of Horrors
- Anna Louizos, Scotland, PA
- Derek McLane, Moulin Rouge!
- Clint Ramos, Soft Power
- Amy Rubin and Brittany Vasta, Octet
Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play
- Isabella Byrd, Heroes of the Fourth Turning
- Oona Curley, Dr. Ride’s American Beach House
- Heather Gilbert, The Sound Inside
- Mimi Jordan Sherin, Judgment Day
- Yi Zhao, Greater Clements
Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical
- Betsy Adams, The Wrong Man
- Jane Cox, The Secret Life of Bees
- Herrick Goldman, Einstein’s Dreams
- Bruno Poet, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
- Justin Townsend, Moulin Rouge!
Outstanding Projection Design
- David Bengali, Einstein’s Dreams
- Julia Frey, Medea
- Luke Halls, West Side Story
- Lisa Renkel and POSSIBLE, Emojiland
- Hannah Wasileski, Fires in the Mirror
Outstanding Sound Design for a Play
- Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid, The Inheritance
- Justin Ellington, Heroes of the Fourth Turning
- Mikhail Fiksel, Dana H.
- Palmer Hefferan, Fefu and Her Friends
- Lee Kinney and Sanae Yamada, Is This A Room
Outstanding Sound Design for a Musical
- Tom Gibbons, West Side Story
- Kai Harada, Soft Power
- Peter Hylenski, Moulin Rouge!
- Hidenori Nakajo, Octet
- Nevin Steinberg, The Wrong Man
Outstanding Costume Design for a Play
- Asa Benally, Blues for an Alabama Sky
- Montana Levi Blanco, Fefu and Her Friends
- Toni-Leslie James, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
- Antony McDonald, Judgment Day
- Rachel Townsend and Jessica Jahn, The Confession of Lily Dare
- Kaye Voyce, Coriolanus
Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical
- Vanessa Leuck, Emojiland
- Jeff Mahshie, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- Mark Thompson, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
- Anita Yavich, Soft Power
- Catherine Zuber, Moulin Rouge!
Outstanding Wig and Hair Design
- Campbell Young Associates, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
- Cookie Jordan, Fefu and Her Friends
- Nikiya Mathis, STEW
- Tom Watson, The Great Society
- Bobbie Zlotnik, Emojiland