
This year’s Drama Desk Awards took place at Sardi’s (234 W 44th Street) on June 14th from 3:00 – 6:00pm.
The Drama Desk Awards are produced by Tony Award winner Scott Mauro/Scott Mauro Entertainment and the show is being written by six-time Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch.
Broadway On Demand streamed the 2022 Drama Desk Awards free of charge.
Renée Elise Goldsberry (Hamilton; The Color Purple; Girl5eva) hosted the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards.
Presenters included Charles Busch
Kerry Butler
Liz Callaway
Lileana Blain-Cruz
Max von Essen
Jessica Hecht
Brittany Johnson
Talia Suskauer
Derek McLane
and Sanaz Toossi.
There were performances by the 2020 Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding Revival –
Little Shop of Horrors
The cast of Harmony
and The Broadway Boys.
Outstanding Play: Prayer for the French Republic, by Joshua Harmon, Manhattan Theatre Club;
Outstanding Musical: Kimberly Akimbo, Atlantic Theater Company;
Outstanding Revival of a Play: How I Learned to Drive, Manhattan Theatre Club;
Outstanding Revival of a Musical: Company;
Outstanding Actor in a Play: Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Lackawanna Blues, Manhattan Theatre Club;
Outstanding Actress in a Play: Phylicia Rashad, Skeleton Crew, Manhattan Theatre Club;
Outstanding Actor in a Musical: Jaquel Spivey, A Strange Loop;
Outstanding Actress in a Musical: Joaquina Kalukango, Paradise Square;
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Ron Cephas Jones, Clyde’s, Second Stage Theater;
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play: Francis Benhamou, Prayer for the French Republic, Manhattan Theatre Club;
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Matt Doyle, Company;
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Patti LuPone, Company;
Outstanding Director of a Play: Rebecca Frecknall, Sanctuary City, New York Theatre Workshop;
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Marianne Elliott, Company;
Outstanding Choreography presented by LaDuca Dance Shoes: Bill T. Jones, Garrett Coleman, and Jason Oremus (Irish Hammerstep), Gelan Lambert and Chloe Davis (associates), Paradise Square;
Outstanding Music Presented by Music Theatre International: Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, Six;
Outstanding Lyrics Presented by Music Theatre International: Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, Six;

Bruce Sussman and The cast of Harmony Sean Bell, Steven Telsey, Danny Kornfeld, Bruce Sussman, Eric Peters, Blake Roman, Zal Owen

Bruce Sussman and The cast of Harmony Sean Bell, Steven Telsey, Danny Kornfeld, Bruce Sussman, Eric Peters, Blake Roman, Zal Owen
Outstanding Book of a Musical Presented by Music Theatre International: Bruce Sussman, Harmony, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene;
Outstanding Orchestrations: Jason Michael Webb and David Holcenberg, MJ;
Outstanding Music in a Play: Bill Sims Jr., Lackawanna Blues, Manhattan Theatre Club;
Outstanding Scenic Design for a Play: Takeshi Kata, Clyde’s, Second Stage Theater;
Outstanding Scenic Design for a Musical Presented by Hudson Scenic: Beowulf Boritt, Flying Over Sunset, Lincoln Center Theater;
Outstanding Costume Design for a Play: Jennifer Moeller, Clyde’s, Second Stage Theater
Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical Presented by Production Resource Group: Gabriella Slade, Six;
Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play (tie): Christopher Akerlind, Clyde’s, Second Stage Theater; and Amith Chandrashaker, Prayer for the French Republic, Manhattan Theatre Club;
Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical (tie): Natasha Katz, MJ; and Bradley King, Flying Over Sunset, Lincoln Center Theater;
Outstanding Projection Design: 59 Productions, Flying Over Sunset, Lincoln Center Theater
Outstanding Sound Design for a Play: Ben and Max Ringham, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Jamie Lloyd Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music;
Outstanding Sound Design for a Musical: Gareth Owen, MJ;
Outstanding Wig and Hair: David Brian Brown, Mrs. Doubtfire;
Outstanding Solo Performance: Kristina Wong, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, New York Theatre Workshop;
The Chase Award for Unique Theatrical Experience: Seven Deadly Sins, Tectonic Theater Project and Madison Wells Live
Outstanding Adaptation: Merry Wives, by Jocelyn Bioh, The Public Theater Free Shakespeare in the Park;
Outstanding Puppet Design: James Ortiz, The Skin of Our Teeth, Lincoln Center Theater;
Harold Prince Lifetime Achievement Award: Playwright and actress Alice Childress (1912-1994);

Adrianna Hicks, Andrea Macasaet, Brittney Mack, Samantha Pauly, Anna Uzele Lucy Moss, Toby Marlow and Gabriella Slade
Ensemble Award: Six, Adrianna Hicks, Andrea Macasaet, Brittney Mack, Abby Mueller, Samantha Pauly, and Anna Uzele
The Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award: Actress Marjan Neshat (Selling Kabul and English);
Additional Special Awards: Costume designer Dede Ayite (Merry Wives, Seven Deadly Sins, The Last of the Love Letters, Chicken and Biscuits, Slave Play, Nollywood Dreams, American Buffalo, and How I learned to Drive)
Scenic designer Adam Rigg (Cullud Wattah, On Sugarland, and The Skin of Our Teeth)
and Composer Heather Christian (Oratorio for Living Things).
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