Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play (Drama Desk Award)

Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. This category was not created until the 1980 ceremony and has only been regularly awarded since 2009. † - indicates the performance won the Tony Award ‡ - indicates the performance was also nominated for the Tony Award

Check all the winners of Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play presented under Drama Desk Award since 1992 .

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Drama Desk Awards 2014

Nico Muhly

Honored for : The Glass Menagerie

Nominations 2014 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Lewis Flinn	The Tribute Artist
Elliot Goldenthal	A Midsummer Night's Dream
Rob Kearns	The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle
Tom Kochan	Almost, Maine
Duncan Sheik	A Man's a Man
Nico Muhly	The Glass Menagerie

Glen Kelly

Honored for : The Nance

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
César Alvarez	Good Person of Szechwan
Eugene Ma	The Man Who Laughs
Jane Wang	Strange Tales of Liaozhai
Steve Martin	As You Like It
Jiří Kadeřábek	Act Before You Speak: The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Ana Milosavljevic	Act Before You Speak: The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Mahir Cetiz	Act Before You Speak: The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Glen Kelly	The Nance

Grant Olding

Honored for : One Man, Two Guvnors

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Grant Olding	One Man, Two Guvnors
Mark Bennett	An Iliad
Mark Bennett	Richard III
Tom Kitt	All's Well That Ends Well
Gina Leishman	Septimus and Clarissa
Duncan Sheik	Carson McCullers Talks About Love
Suzanne Vega	Carson McCullers Talks About Love

Wayne Barker

Honored for : Peter and the Starcatcher

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Wayne Barker	Peter and the Starcatcher
Alan John	The Diary of a Madman
Lars Petter Hagen	Baby Universe: A Puppet Odyssey
Tom Kitt	The Winter's Tale
Kathryn Bostic	Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Dan Moses Schreier	The Merchant of Venice

Branford Marsalis

Honored for : Fences

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Branford Marsalis	Fences
Adam Cochran	A Play on War
Latham Gaines	A Lie of the Mind
Shelby Gaines	A Lie of the Mind
Philip Glass	The Bacchae
Hem	Twelfth Night
Adam Cork	Red

Dominic Kanza

Honored for : Ruined

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Dominic Kanza	Ruined
Mark Bennett	The Winter's Tale","The Cherry Orchard
DJ Rekha	Rafta, Rafta...
Richard Woodbury	Desire Under the Elms
Gary Yershon	The Norman Conquests: Living Together","The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden","The Norman Conquests: Table Manners

Mark Bennett

Honored for : The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Mark Bennett	The Coast of Utopia: Voyage","The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck","The Coast of Utopia: Salvage
Adam Cork	Frost/Nixon
David Van Tieghem	Inherit the Wind
Gerard McBurney	Oliver Twist
The Propeller Company	The Taming of the Shrew
Ray Rizzo	Essential Self-Defense
Adam Rapp	Essential Self-Defense
Lucas Papaelias	Essential Self-Defense

Willy Schwarz

Honored for : Metamorphoses

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Peter John Still	Cymbeline
Nona Hendryx	Blue
Crispin Cioe	True Love
Willy Schwarz	Metamorphoses

Jeanine Tesori

Honored for : Twelfth Night

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Jeanine Tesori	Twelfth Night
Drew McVety	Corpus Christi
David Van Tieghem	The Turn of the Screw
Richard Woodbury	Death of a Salesman
Steven Edis	Not About Nightingales

Stephen Warbeck

Honored for : An Inspector Calls

Nominations 1994 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Stephen Warbeck	An Inspector Calls
Jonathan Dove	Medea
Duke Ellington	Timon of Athens
Stanley Silverman	Timon of Athens

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Honored for : The Song of Jacob Zulu

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Ladysmith Black Mambazo	The Song of Jacob Zulu

Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

Honored for : Tis Pity She's a Whore

Nominations 1992 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek	Tis Pity She's a Whore
Richard Peaslee	Akin

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play