The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Puppetry 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. The award was first presented at the 1998 ceremony, as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Puppet Design,[1] then suspended from use until the 2017 ceremony. The current name was introduced as of the 2023 ceremony.
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Puppet Design | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Puppet Design |
Location | New York City |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Drama Desk |
First awarded | 1998 |
Currently held by | Nick Barnes & Finn Caldwell for Life of Pi (2023) |
Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
Unlike some Drama Desk Awards, the award for Outstanding Puppetry combines plays and musicals into a single category.
Year | Designer | Production |
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1998[1] | Julie Taymor and Michael Curry | The Lion King |
The Big Nazo Studio | Jackie: An American Life | |
Bruce Schwartz | Ballad of Yachiyo | |
Basil Twist | Tell-Tale |
Year | Designer | Production |
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2017[2] | Basil Twist | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
Lyndie Wright and Sarah Wright | 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips | |
2018[3] | ||
Michael Curry | Frozen | |
Finn Caldwell and Nick Barnes | Angels in America | |
Charlie Kanev, Sarah Nolan, and Jonathan Levin | A Hunger Artist | |
Vandy Wood | The Artificial Jungle | |
2019[4] | ||
Sonny Tilders | King Kong | |
Michael Curry | Beetlejuice | |
Tschabalala Self | Daddy |
Year | Designer | Production |
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2020[5] | Raphael Mishler | Tumacho |
Rockefeller Productions | Paddington Gets in a Jam | |
Amanda Villalobos | Is This a Room | |
2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City[6] | |
2022[7][8] | ||
James Ortiz | The Skin of Our Teeth | |
Amanda Villalobos | Wolf Play | |
Rockefeller Productions | Winnie the Pooh | |
2023 | ||
Nick Barnes & Finn Caldwell | Life of Pi | |
John Leader | Wuthering Heights | |
James Ortiz (deisgn), Kennedy Kanagawa (as Milky White) | Into the Woods | |
Kirjan Waage | The Immortal Jellyfish Girl |