57th Drama Desk Awards

The 19th Annual Panasonic Gobel Awards : Winners Announced

Award		Winner
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play		James Corden Honored for : One Man, Two Guvnors
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical		Danny Burstein Honored for : Follies
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical		Audra McDonald Honored for : Porgy and Bess
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical		Joe DiPietro Honored for : Nice Work If You Can Get It
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography		Christopher Gattelli Honored for : Newsies
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play		Tracie Bennett Honored for : End of the Rainbow
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical		John Tiffany Honored for : Once
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play		Mike Nichols Honored for : Death of a Salesman
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical		Michael McGrath Honored for : Nice Work If You Can Get It
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical		Judy Kaye Honored for : Nice Work If You Can Get It
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design		Gregg Barnes Honored for : Follies
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design		Brian MacDevitt Honored for : Death of a Salesman
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play		Nina Raine Honored for : Tribes
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play		Grant Olding Honored for : One Man, Two Guvnors
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play		Judith Light Honored for : Other Desert Cities
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical		The Shubert Organization, Barbara Broccoli, John Hart, Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick M. Zollo, Brian Carmody, Orin Wolf Honored for : Once
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design		Jon Driscoll, Rob Howell, Paul Kieve Honored for : Ghost The Musical
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play		Tom Edden Honored for : One Man, Two Guvnors
Drama Desk Special Award		Mary Testa (For over three decades, she has dazzled audiences with consistently outstanding work)
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical		Nederlander Presentations Inc., Adrienne Arsht, HRH Foundation, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Honored for : Follies
Drama Desk Special Award		Nick Westrate (His versatility in Unnatural Acts, Love's Labor's Lost, and Galileo was a highlight of the season)
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue		Rubicon Theatre Company Honored for : The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman (Outstanding Musical Revue)
Drama Desk Special Award		New Victory Theater (For providing enchanting, sophisticated children's theater that appeals to the child in all of us, and for nurturing a love of theater in young people)
Drama Desk Special Award		Stephen Karam (The newly created Sam Norkin Off Broadway Award: The Profoundly moving Sons of the Prophet confirmed his status as one of the most promising playwrights of his generation)
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design of a Musical		Acme Sound Partners Honored for : Porgy and Bess
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance		Jon DeVries, Shuler Hensley, Maryann Plunkett, Laila Robins, Jay O. Sanders, J. Smith-Cameron Honored for : Sweet and Sad
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play		The Shubert Organization, Scott Rudin, Stuart Thompson, Jon B. Platt, Columbia Pictures, Jean Doumanian, Merritt Forrest Baer, Roger Berlind, Scott M. Delman, Ruth Hendel, Carl Moellenberg, Zeilinger Productions, Eli Bush, Sonia Friedman Productions, Robert G. Bartner Honored for : Death of a Salesman
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music		Alan Menken Honored for : Newsies
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance		Cillian Murphy Honored for : Misterman
Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience		Public Theater Honored for : Gob Squad's Kitchen
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design of a Play		John Gromada Honored for : The Best Man
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics		Markéta Irglová, Glen Hansard Honored for : Once
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations		Martin Lowe Honored for : Once

Award

Winner

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play

James Corden

Honored for : One Man, Two Guvnors

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical

Danny Burstein

Honored for : Follies

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical

Audra McDonald

Honored for : Porgy and Bess

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical

Joe DiPietro

Honored for : Nice Work If You Can Get It

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography

Christopher Gattelli

Honored for : Newsies

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play

Tracie Bennett

Honored for : End of the Rainbow

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical

John Tiffany

Honored for : Once

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play

Mike Nichols

Honored for : Death of a Salesman

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

Michael McGrath

Honored for : Nice Work If You Can Get It

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Judy Kaye

Honored for : Nice Work If You Can Get It

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design

Gregg Barnes

Honored for : Follies

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

Brian MacDevitt

Honored for : Death of a Salesman

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play

Nina Raine

Honored for : Tribes

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play

Grant Olding

Honored for : One Man, Two Guvnors

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

Judith Light

Honored for : Other Desert Cities

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical

The Shubert Organization, Barbara Broccoli, John Hart, Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick M. Zollo, Brian Carmody, Orin Wolf

Honored for : Once

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design

Jon Driscoll, Rob Howell, Paul Kieve

Honored for : Ghost The Musical

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play