DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS AND WINNERS



Outstanding Play
Buicks by Julian Sheppard
Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Peter and Vandy by Jay DiPietro
Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg WINNER
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
Yellowman by Dael Orlandersmith

Outstanding Musical
Amour
Avenue Q
Hairspray WINNER
A Man of No Importance
Movin' Out
Zanna, Don't!

Outstanding Revival of a Play
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Dinner at Eight
Long Day's Journey Into Night WINNER
Medea
Twelfth Night (Donmar Warehouse/BAM)
Uncle Vanya (Donmar Warehouse/BAM)

Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Gypsy
La Boheme
Man of La Mancha
Nine WINNER

Outstanding Actor in a Play
Simon Russell Beale (Uncle Vanya)
Norbert Leo Butz (Buicks)
Jim Dale (Comedians)
Brian Dennehy (Long Day's Journey Into Night)
Eddie Izzard (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg)WINNER
Daniel Sunjata (Take Me Out)

Outstanding Actress in a Play
Jayne Atkinson (Enchanted April)
Marylouise Burke (Kimberly Akimbo)
Clare Higgins (Vincent in Brixton)
Dael Orlandersmith (Yellowman)
Vanessa Redgrave (Long Day's Journey Into Night)WINNER
Fiona Shaw (Medea)

Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Antonio Banderas (Nine)WINNER TIE
Harvey Fierstein (Hairspray)WINNER TIE
Malcolm Gets (Amour) Brian Stokes Mitchell (Man of La Mancha)
Jason Petty (Hank Williams: Lost Highway)
John Selya (Movin' Out)

Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Avenue Q)
Ann Duquesnay (Cookin' at the Cookery)
Wei Huang (La Boheme)
Elizabeth Parkinson (Movin' Out)
Bernadette Peters (Gypsy)
Marissa Jaret Winokur (Hairspray)WINNER

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Simon Russell Beale (Twelfth Night)
Walter Bobbie (Polish Joke)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Long Day's Journey Into Night) T.R. Knight (Scattergood)
Denis O'Hare (Take Me Out)WINNER
Frederick Weller (Take Me Out)

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Christine Ebersole (Talking Heads)
Jan Maxwell (My Old Lady)
Helen McCrory (Uncle Vanya)
Nancy Opel (Polish Joke)
Lynn Redgrave (Talking Heads)WINNER
Jeanine Serralles (Hold Please)

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
John Dossett (Gypsy)
Christopher Fitzgerald (Amour)
Charles Keating (A Man of No Importance)
Dick Latessa (Hairspray)WINNER
Steven Pasquale (A Man of No Importance)
Corey Reynolds (Hairspray)

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Kerry Butler (Hairspray)
Jane Krakowski (Nine)WINNER
Mary Stuart Masterson (Nine)
Sally Mayes (Urban Cowboy)
Chita Rivera (Nine)
Debra Walton (Cookin' at the Cookery)

Outstanding Director of a Play
Robert Falls (Long Day's Journey Into Night)WINNER
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Our Lady of 121st Street)
Joe Mantello (Take Me Out)
Sam Mendes (Twelfth Night)
Sam Mendes (Uncle Vanya)
Deborah Warner (Medea)

Outstanding Director of a Musical
James Lapine (Amour)
David Leveaux (Nine)
Baz Luhrmann (La Boheme)
Joe Mantello (A Man of No Importance)
Jack O'Brien (Hairspray)WINNER
Twyla Tharp (Movin' Out)

Outstanding Choreography
Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray)
Ken Roberson (Harlem Song)
Twyla Tharp (Movin' Out)WINNER
Tommy Tune (Tommy Tune: White Tie and Tails)

Outstanding Music
Tim Acito (Zanna, Don't!)
Stephen Flaherty (A Man of No Importance)
Michel Legrand (Amour)
Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx (Avenue Q) Keb' Mo', Anderson Edwards, Keith Glover (Thunder Knocking on the Door) Marc Shaiman (Hairspray)WINNER

Outstanding Lyrics
Tim Acito, Alexander Dinelaris (Zanna, Don't!)
Lynn Ahrens (A Man of No Importance)
Craig Carnelia (Imaginary Friends)
Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx (Avenue Q)
Jeremy Sams, Didier van Cauwelaert (Amour)
Scott Wittman, Marc Shaiman (Hairspray)WINNER

Outstanding Book of a Musical
Tim Acito, Alexander Dinelaris (Zanna, Don't!)
Terrence McNally (A Man of No Importance)
Mark O'Donnell, Thomas Meehan (Hairspray)WINNER
Jeremy Sams, Didier van Cauwelaert (Amour)
Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q)

Outstanding Orchestrations
Luther Henderson (Little Ham)
Michel Legrand (Amour)
Harold Wheeler (Hairspray)WINNER

Outstanding Set Design of a Play
John Lee Beatty (Dinner at Eight)WINNER
John Lee Beatty (My Old Lady) Troy Hourie (Temporary Help)
Scott Pask (Take Me Out)
Neil Patel (Endpapers)
B.T. Whitehall (Shanghai Moon)

Outstanding Set Design of a Musical
Riccardo Hernandez, Batwin + Robin Productions (Radiant Baby)
Catherine Martin (La Boheme)WINNER
Scott Pask (Amour)
Stephane Roy (Cirque du Soleil: Varekai)
David Rockwell (Hairspray)

Outstanding Costume Design
Michael Bottari, Ronald Case (Shanghai Moon)
Jess Goldstein (Enchanted April)
Eiko Ishioka (Cirque du Soleil: Varekai)
William Ivey Long (Hairspray)WINNER
Catherine Martin, Angus Strathie (La Boheme)
Catherine Zuber (Dinner at Eight)

Outstanding Lighting Design
Kevin Adams (Take Me Out)
Russell H. Champa (Yellowman)
Donald Holder (Movin' Out)
Donald Holder (Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme)
Nigel Levings (La Boheme)WINNER
Peter Mumford (Vincent in Brixton)

Outstanding Sound Design
Acme Sound Partners (La Boheme)WINNER
Mark Bennett (Golda's Balcony)
Mark Bennett (Julius Caesar)
Francois Bergeron (Cirque du Soleil: Varekai)
Janet Kalas (Take Me Out)
David Meschter, Mel Mercier (Medea)

Outstanding Solo Performance
Barbara Cook (Mostly Sondheim)
Tovah Feldshuh (Golda's Balcony)WINNER
Frank Gorshin (Say Goodnight, Gracie)
Ricky Jay (Ricky Jay: On the Stem)
Priscilla Lopez (Class Mothers '68)
Charlayne Woodard (In Real Life)

Unique Theatrical Experience
Cirque du Soleil: Varekai
The Exonerated WINNER
The Play What I Wrote
Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway

Special Awards will be given to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Charles Busch and to Geoffrey Johnson and Vincent Liff (posthumous) of Johnson-Liff Casting.