From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design is pre- • 1986: Tony Walton for Social Security and The House of
sented by the Drama Desk, a committee composed of New Blue Leaves
York City theatre critics, writers, and editors. It honors • 1987: John Napier for Les Misérables and Starlight
the set designers of productions staged on Broadway, off- Express
Broadway, off-off-Broadway, and for legitimate not-for- • 1988: Maria Björnson for The Phantom of the Opera
profit theaters. • 1989: Loy Arcenas for Reckless
It was not until the 15th Annual Drama Desk Awards • 1990: Robin Wagner for City of Angels
in 1969 that a specific category for Outstanding Set De- • 1991: Heidi Ettinger for The Secret Garden
sign was created. That year’s recipients were Ming Cho • 1992: Joe Vanek for Dancing at Lughnasa
Lee for Billy and Boris Aronson for Zorba. Aronson won • 1993: Guy-Claude Francois for Les Atrides
the following two years as well, making him the only re- • 1994: Ian MacNeil for An Inspector Calls
cipient to be honored three years in a row. • 1995: Eugene Lee for Show Boat
Multiple winners were named until 1975, when the • 1997: Christina Poddubiuk, James Noone, and Robin
rules were changed to allow for only one, unless there is Phillips for Jekyll and Hyde
a tie vote. In 1998, the category was split to differentiate • 1998: The Quay Brothers for The Chairs (play);
between plays and musicals. Richard Hudson for The Lion King (musical)
To date, Robin Wagner holds the record for most • 1999: Richard Hoover for Not About Nightingales
wins, with six to his credit. (play); Lez Brotherston for Swan Lake (musical)
• 2000: Tony Walton for Uncle Vanya (play); Robin
Additional winners Wagner for Kiss Me, Kate (musical)
• 2001: Bob Crowley for The Invention of Love (play);
• 1970: Boris Aronson for Company; Jo Mielziner for Robin Wagner for The Producers (musical)
Child’s Play; Fred Voelpe for The Memory Bank • 2002: Tim Hatley for Private Lives (play); Douglas W.
• 1971: Boris Aronson for Follies; Sally Jacobs for A Schmidt for Into the Woods (musical)
Midsummer Night’s Dream; Robin Wagner for Lenny • 2003: John Lee Beatty for Dinner at Eight (play);
• 1972: Santo Loquasto for Sticks and Bones and That Catherine Martin for La Bohème (musical)
Championship Season; Robert U. Taylor for The Beggar’s • 2004: John Lee Beatty for Twentieth Century (play);
Opera; Kert Lundell for Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Eugene Lee for Wicked (musical)
Death • 2005: Santo Loquasto for Glengarry Glen Ross (play);
• 1973: Victor Garcia and Fabian Puigserver for Yerma; Michael Yeargan for The Light in the Piazza (musical)
Tony Walton for Pippin and Shelter; David Jenkins for • 2006: Michael Yeargan for Awake and Sing! (play);
The Changing Room David Gallo for The Drowsy Chaperone (musical)
• 1974: Franne Lee and Eugene Lee for Candide; David • 2007: Bob Crowley and Scott Pask for The Coast of
Mitchell for Short Eyes; Douglas W. Schmidt for Over Utopia (play); Bob Crowley for Mary Poppins (musical)
Here! and Veronica’s Room • 2008: Scott Pask for Les Liaisons Dangereuses (play);
• 1975: Carl Toms for Sherlock Holmes Michael Yeargan for South Pacific (musical)
• 1976: Boris Aronson for Pacific Overtures • 2009: David Korins for Why Torture is Wrong, and the
• 1977: Santo Loquasto for American Buffalo and The People Who Love Them (play); Tim Hatley for Shrek: The
Cherry Orchard Musical (musical)
• 1978: Robin Wagner for On the Twentieth Century • 2010: Phelim McDermott, Julian Crouch, and Basil
• 1979: John Wulp for The Crucifer of Blood Twist for The Addams Family (musical)
• 1980: John Lee Beatty for Talley’s Folly
• 1981: John Lee Beatty for Fifth of July
• 1982: Robin Wagner for Dreamgirls
External links
• 1983: Ming Cho Lee for K2 • Official Drama Desk Award website
• 1984: Tony Straiges for Sunday in the Park with George
• 1985: Heidi Ettinger for Big River
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