Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical

Summary

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City.

Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical
Awarded forOutstanding Lighting Design for a Musical
LocationNew York City
CountryUnited States
Presented byDrama Desk
First awarded2009
Currently held byNatasha Katz for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023)
Websitedramadesk.org (defunct)

The award was established in 1975, with the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design being presented each year to any play or musical production. For 2009, the singular award was replaced by separate play and musical categories, but then merged again from 2010 to 2015; the separate play and musical categories have again co-existed since 2016.

Winners and nominees edit

2000s edit

Year Designer Production
2009
Rick Fisher Billy Elliot the Musical
Kevin Adams Hair
Jules Fisher and Kenneth Posner 9 to 5
Jason Lyons Clay
Sinéad McKenna Improbable Frequency
Richard Pilbrow A Tale of Two Cities

2010s edit

Year Designer Production
2016 Justin Townsend American Psycho
Jane Cox The Color Purple
Jake DeGroot SeaWife
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer Shuffle Along
Ben Stanton Spring Awakening
2017
Bradley King Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Jeff Croiter Bandstand
Mark Henderson Sunset Boulevard
Bradley King Hadestown
Amy Mae Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Malcolm Rippeth 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
2018
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer Once on This Island
Louisa Adamson and Christian Barry Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
Amith Chandrashaker The Lucky Ones
Brian MacDevitt Carousel
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew KPOP
2019
Bradley King Hadestown
Adam Honoré Carmen Jones
Jamie Roderick Midnight at the Never Get
Barbara Samuels Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future
Scott Zielinski Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

2020s edit

Year Designer Production
2020
Justin Townsend Moulin Rouge!
Betsy Adams The Wrong Man
Jane Cox The Secret Life of Bees
Herrick Goldman Einstein's Dreams
Bruno Poet Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
2021 No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City[1]
2022
Natasha Katz MJ
Bradley King Flying Over Sunset
Natasha Katz Diana
Jennifer Tipton Intimate Apparel
2023 Natasha Katz Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Ken Billington New York, New York
Jeff Croiter Only Gold
Heather Gilbert Parade
David Grill Bob Fosse's Dancin'

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References edit

  1. ^ Evans, Greg (2021-05-05). "Broadway To Reopen Sept. 14, Says Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Broadway League "Cautiously Optimistic"". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2023-12-03.

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