Awards & Winners

1991 Drama Desk Award

Check winners and nominations of 1991 Drama Desk Award. Check awards winners of 36th Drama Desk Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

36th Drama Desk Awards

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play

Ron Rifkin

Honored for : The Substance of Fire

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ron Rifkin The Substance of Fire
Kevin Kline Hamlet
Sab Shimono The Wash
Tom McGowan La Bête
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play

Mercedes Ruehl

Honored for : Lost in Yonkers

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Nominee Nominated Work
Mercedes Ruehl Lost in Yonkers
Stockard Channing Six Degrees of Separation
Angela Goethals The Good Times Are Killing Me
Audra Lindley About Time
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography

Tommy Tune

Honored for : Will Rogers Follies

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Nominee Nominated Work
Tommy Tune Will Rogers Follies
Susan Stroman And the World Goes Round
Dan Siretta Oh, Kay!
Michael Lichtefeld The Secret Garden
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design

Patricia Zipprodt

Honored for : Shogun: The Musical

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Nominee Nominated Work
Patricia Zipprodt Shogun: The Musical
Richard Hudson La Bête
Santo Loquasto Lost in Yonkers
Toni-Leslie James Caucasian Chalk Circle
Stephen Kaplin Caucasian Chalk Circle
Barbara Pollitt Caucasian Chalk Circle
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical

Scott Ellis

Honored for : And the World Goes Round

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Nominee Nominated Work
Scott Ellis And the World Goes Round
Lisa Peterson The Waves
Jerry Zaks Assassins
Susan H. Schulman The Secret Garden
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play

Jerry Zaks

Honored for : Six Degrees of Separation

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jerry Zaks Six Degrees of Separation
Richard Jones La Bête
Kevin Kline Hamlet
Michael Greif Machinal
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

Bruce Adler

Honored for : Those Were the Days

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Nominee Nominated Work
Bruce Adler Those Were the Days
John Cameron Mitchell The Secret Garden
John Remme A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Lee Wilkof Assassins
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

Kevin Spacey

Honored for : Lost in Yonkers

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Nominee Nominated Work
Kevin Spacey Lost in Yonkers
Leland Gantt Let Me Live
Josef Sommer Hamlet
Dylan Baker La Bête
Marcus Chong Stand-Up Tragedy
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Karen Ziemba

Honored for : And the World Goes Round

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Nominee Nominated Work
Karen Ziemba And the World Goes Round
Regina Resnik A Little Night Music
Alison Fraser The Secret Garden
Rebecca Luker The Secret Garden
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

Karen Ziemba

Honored for : And the World Goes Round

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Nominee Nominated Work
Karen Ziemba And the World Goes Round
Alison Fraser The Secret Garden
Rebecca Luker The Secret Garden
Regina Resnik A Little Night Music
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

David Hersey

Honored for : Miss Saigon

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Nominee Nominated Work
David Hersey Miss Saigon
Jules Fisher Hamlet
Donald Holder Caucasian Chalk Circle
Kenneth Posner Machinal
Tharon Musser The Secret Garden
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics

William Finn

Honored for : Falsettoland

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Nominee Nominated Work
Marsha Norman The Secret Garden
Stephen Sondheim Assassins
William Finn Falsettoland
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations

William David Brohn

Honored for : Miss Saigon

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Nominee Nominated Work
William David Brohn The Secret Garden
William David Brohn Miss Saigon
Billy Byers Will Rogers Follies
David Krane And the World Goes Round
Mbongeni Ngema Township Fever
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music

Cy Coleman

Honored for : The Will Rogers Follies

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Nominee Nominated Work
Cy Coleman The Will Rogers Follies
William Finn Falsettoland
David Bucknam The Waves
Stephen Sondheim Assassins
Lucy Simon The Secret Garden
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations

William David Brohn

Honored for : The Secret Garden

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
William David Brohn The Secret Garden
William David Brohn Miss Saigon
Billy Byers Will Rogers Follies
David Krane And the World Goes Round
Mbongeni Ngema Township Fever
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music

William Finn

Honored for : Falsettoland

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Cy Coleman The Will Rogers Follies
William Finn Falsettoland
David Bucknam The Waves
Stephen Sondheim Assassins
Lucy Simon The Secret Garden
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical

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Nominee Nominated Work
Stewart F. Lane Will Rogers Follies
Max Weitzenhoffer Will Rogers Follies
Dodger Theatricals The Secret Garden
Jujamcyn Theaters The Secret Garden
TV Asahi The Secret Garden
Rick Steiner The Secret Garden
Elizabeth Williams The Secret Garden
Heidi Ettinger The Secret Garden
Frederic H. Mayerson The Secret Garden
Playwrights Horizons Assassins
Pierre Cossette Will Rogers Follies
Martin Richards Will Rogers Follies
Sam Crothers Will Rogers Follies
James M. Nederlander Will Rogers Follies
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play

Emanuel Azenberg

Honored for : Lost in Yonkers

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Nominee Nominated Work
Emanuel Azenberg Lost in Yonkers
Manhattan Theatre Club The Wash
Philip Kan Gotanda The Wash
Stuart Ostrow La Bête
Andrew Lloyd Webber La Bête
Lincoln Center Theater Six Degrees of Separation
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival

New York City Opera

Honored for : A Little Night Music

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Nominee Nominated Work
New York City Opera A Little Night Music
Ridiculous Theatrical Company Camille
Public Theater Hamlet
Public Theater Machinal
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design

Heidi Ettinger

Honored for : The Secret Garden

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Nominee Nominated Work
Heidi Ettinger The Secret Garden
Richard Hudson La Bête
David Gallo Machinal
Andrew Jackness Road to Nirvana
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
R. Tyler Gatchell Jr. And the World Goes Round
Gene R. Korf And the World Goes Round
Peter Neufeld And the World Goes Round
Patrick J. Patek And the World Goes Round
McCarter Theatre And the World Goes Round
Eugene V. Wolsk Forever Plaid
Carolyn Rossi Copeland Smoke on the Mountain
Zalmen Mlotek Those Were the Days
Victor H. Potamkin Those Were the Days
Moishe Rosenfeld Those Were the Days
Moe Septee Those Were the Days
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design

Aural Fixation

Honored for : Red Scare on Sunset

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Nominee Nominated Work
Aural Fixation Red Scare on Sunset
John Gromada Machinal
Janet Kalas The Good Times Are Killing Me
Olu Dara Let Me Live
Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience
Drama Desk Special Award

Brooklyn Academy of Music

(For bringing international productions to New York .)
Drama Desk Special Award

James McMullan

(For consistently inspired art work for theater.)
Drama Desk Special Award

New Dramatists

(For decades of nurturing American playwrights)
Drama Desk Special Award

Harold Jacob Rome

(For his distinctive contribution to musical theate)
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance

Eileen Atkins

Honored for : A Room of One's Own
(Outstanding Solo Performance/One Person Show)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Tracey Ullman The Big Love
Outstanding Solo Performance/One Person Show
Spalding Gray Monster in a Box
Outstanding Solo Performance/One Person Show
Jeffrey Essmann Artificial Reality
Outstanding Solo Performance/One Person Show
Eileen Atkins A Room of One's Own
Outstanding Solo Performance/One Person Show
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical

Jonathan Pryce

Honored for : Miss Saigon

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jonathan Pryce Miss Saigon
Paul Hipp Buddy \u2013 The Buddy Holly Story
Mandy Patinkin The Secret Garden
Keith Carradine Will Rogers Follies
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical

Lea Salonga

Honored for : Miss Saigon

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Nominee Nominated Work
Lea Salonga Miss Saigon
LaChanze Once On This Island
June Angela Shogun: The Musical
Daisy Eagan The Secret Garden
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical

Marsha Norman

Honored for : The Secret Garden

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Nominee Nominated Work
Marsha Norman The Secret Garden
John Weidman Assassins
Drama Desk Special Award

Brooklyn Academy of Music

(For bringing international productions to New York)
Drama Desk Special Award

New Dramatists

(For decades of nurturing American playwrights.)
Drama Desk Special Award

Harold Jacob Rome

(For his distinctive contribution to musical theater.)