Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Lighting Design |
Location | New York City |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Drama Desk |
First awarded | 1975 |
Last awarded | 2015 |
Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design was an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. The award was first presented in 1975, for work in either a play or musical production. It was briefly retired, when it was replaced in 2009 by separate play and musical categories, but returned as a singular category starting in 2010. It was permanently retired after the 2015 presentation, again replaced by separate play and musical categories.
Winners and nominees
1970s
Year | Designer | Production |
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1975 | ||
Neil Peter Jampolis | Sherlock Holmes | |
Feder | Goodtime Charley | |
Roger Morgan | Saturday Sunday Monday | |
Julia Trevelyan Oman | Brief Lives | |
Andy Phillips | Equus | |
1976 | ||
Jules Fisher | Chicago | |
Ian Calderon | Trelawny of the 'Wells' | |
Leon DiLeone | Angel Street | |
Robert Ornbo | Travesties | |
Thomas R. Skelton | Legend | |
James Tilton | A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton | |
They Knew What They Wanted | ||
1977 | ||
Jennifer Tipton | The Cherry Orchard | |
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf | ||
John Bury | No Man's Land | |
Burl Hash | The Crazy Locomotive | |
Gilbert V. Hemsley, Jr. | Porgy and Bess | |
Ron Wallace | Comedians | |
1978 | ||
Jules Fisher | Dancin' | |
John Arnone and Garland Wright | K | |
Gilbert V. Hemsley, Jr. | The Mighty Gents | |
Roger Morgan | Dracula | |
Ronald Wallace | The Gin Game | |
Marc B. Weiss | Deathtrap | |
1979 | ||
Roger Morgan | The Crucifer of Blood | |
Ken Billington | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | |
Beverly Emmons | The Elephant Man | |
Tharon Musser | Ballroom | |
They're Playing Our Song |
1980s
Year | Designer | Production |
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1980 | ||
Dennis Parichy | Talley's Folly | |
David Hersey | Evita | |
John McLain | Émigrés | |
Tharon Musser | Children of a Lesser God | |
Richard Nelson | Morning's at Seven | |
Duane Schuler | Teibele and Her Demon | |
1981 | ||
Jules Fisher and Robby Monk | Frankenstein | |
John Bury | Amadeus | |
Pat Collins | Penguin Touquet | |
Dennis Parichy | Fifth of July | |
Thomas R. Skelton | Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music | |
Jennifer Tipton | Lunch Hour | |
1982 | ||
Marcia Madeira | Nine | |
Tharon Musser | Dreamgirls | |
Beverly Emmons | The Dresser | |
Eugene Lee | The Hothouse | |
1983 | ||
David Hersey | Cats | |
Ken Billington | Foxfire | |
Allen Lee Hughes | K2 | |
Richard Nelson | Death of Von Richthofen Witnessed from Earth | |
Mal Sturchio | Johnny Got His Gun | |
1984 | ||
Richard Nelson | Sunday in the Park with George | |
Frances Aronson | Painting Churches | |
Jules Fisher | La Cage aux Folles | |
John Gisondi | Sound and Beauty | |
Tharon Musser | The Real Thing | |
Marc B. Weiss | The Rink | |
1985 | ||
Richard Riddell | Big River | |
Ken Billington | Grind | |
Kevin Rigdon | Balm in Gilead | |
Jennifer Tipton | Whoopi Goldberg | |
Ron Wallace | Requiem for a Heavyweight | |
Terry Wuthrich | Tracers | |
1986 | ||
Pat Collins | Execution of Justice | |
Paul Gallo | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | |
Phil Monat | Goblin Market | |
Kevin Rigdon | The Shawl | |
Jennifer Tipton | Hamlet | |
1987 | ||
Chris Parry | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | |
Martin Aronstein | Wild Honey | |
David Hersey | Les Misérables | |
Dennis Parichy | Coastal Disturbances | |
Jennifer Tipton | Worstward Ho | |
1988 | ||
Andrew Bridge | The Phantom of the Opera | |
Pat Collins | Woman in Mind | |
Paul Gallo | Wenceslas Square | |
Anything Goes | ||
David Hersey | Chess | |
Richard Nelson | Into the Woods | |
1989 | ||
Jennifer Tipton | Waiting for Godot | |
Jerome Robbins' Broadway | ||
Long Day's Journey into Night | ||
Mary Jo Dondlinger | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | |
Paul Gallo | Miracolo D'Amore | |
Lend Me a Tenor | ||
Neil Peter Jampolis and Jane Reisman | Black and Blue | |
Kevin Rigdon | Our Town |
1990s
2000s
Year | Designer | Production |
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2000 | ||
Peter Kaczorowski | Contact | |
David J. Lander | Dirty Blonde | |
Brian MacDevitt | An Experiment with an Air Pump | |
Robert Perry | The Water Engine | |
Kenneth Posner | The Wild Party | |
Scott Zielinski | Space | |
2001 | ||
Paul Anderson | Mnemonic | |
Howell Binkley | The Full Monty | |
Peter Kaczorowski | The Producers | |
Brian MacDevitt | The Invention of Love | |
Kenneth Posner | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | |
Hugh Vanstone | The Unexpected Man | |
2002 | ||
T.J. Gerckens | Metamorphoses | |
Frances Aronson | Psych | |
David Hersey | Oklahoma! | |
Natasha Katz | Sweet Smell of Success | |
Peter Mumford | Private Lives | |
Kenneth Posner | Monster | |
2003 | ||
Nigel Levings | La Bohème | |
Kevin Adams | Take Me Out | |
Russell H. Champa | Yellowman | |
Donald Holder | Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme | |
Movin' Out | ||
Peter Mumford | Vincent in Brixton | |
2004 | ||
Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher | Assassins | |
T.J. Gerckens | The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci | |
Donald Holder | The Violet Hour | |
David J. Lander | I Am My Own Wife | |
Brian MacDevitt | Henry IV | |
Kenneth Posner | Wicked | |
2005 | ||
Christopher Akerlind | The Light in the Piazza | |
Christopher Akerlind | Belle Époque | |
Mark Henderson | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | |
Donald Holder | Gem of the Ocean | |
R. Lee Kennedy | The Audience | |
James Japhy Weideman | Frankenstein | |
2006 | ||
Richard G. Jones | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | |
Christopher Akerlind | Awake and Sing! | |
Traci Klainer | The Asphalt Kiss | |
Martin Labrecque | Rain | |
John McKernon | The Trip to Bountiful | |
Robert Wilson | Peer Gynt | |
2007 | ||
Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner and Natasha Katz | The Coast of Utopia | |
Howell Binkley | LoveMusik | |
Paul Gallo | Blackbird | |
Mark Jonathan | Prometheus Bound | |
James Japhy Weideman | Jack Goes Boating | |
2008 | ||
Kevin Adams | The 39 Steps | |
Ken Billington | Sunday in the Park with George | |
Maruti Evans | Slaughterhouse-Five | |
Donald Holder | South Pacific | |
Natasha Katz | The Little Mermaid | |
Keith Parham | Adding Machine | |
2009 | — |
2010s
Year | Designer | Production |
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2010 | ||
Neil Austin | Red | |
Neil Austin | Hamlet | |
Christian DeAngelis | Lizzie Borden | |
Maruti Evans | John Ball's In the Heat of the Night | |
Natasha Katz | The Addams Family | |
Dane Laffery | The Boys in the Band | |
2011 | ||
David Lander | Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | |
Jean Kalman | John Gabriel Borkman | |
R. Lee Kennedy | See Rock City & Other Destinations | |
Laura Mroczkowksi | Spy Garbo | |
Ben Stanton | The Whipping Man | |
David Weiner | A Small Fire | |
2012 | ||
Brian MacDevitt | Death of a Salesman | |
Kevin Adams | Carrie | |
Neil Austin | Evita | |
David Lander | One Arm | |
Kenneth Posner | Death Takes a Holiday | |
Paul Pyant | Richard III | |
2013 | ||
Justin Townsend | Here Lies Love | |
Daniel Winters | The Man Who Laughs | |
Ken Billington | Chaplin: The Musical | |
Jane Cox | Passion | |
Kenneth Posner | Pippin | |
Scott Zielinski | A Civil War Christmas | |
2014 | ||
Christopher Akerlind | Rocky the Musical | |
Jane Cox | Machinal | |
David Lander | The Civil War | |
Peter Mumford | King Lear | |
Brian Tovar | Tamar of the River | |
Japhy Weideman | Macbeth | |
2015 | ||
Paule Constable | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | |
Howell Binkley | Hamilton | |
Paule Constable and David Plater | Wolf Hall Parts One & Two | |
Maruti Evans | Deliverance | |
Natasha Katz | The Iceman Cometh | |
Ben Stanton | Our Lady of Kibeho |
See also
References
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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design
- Neil Peter Jampolis (1975)
- Jules Fisher (1976)
- Jennifer Tipton (1977)
- Jules Fisher (1978)
- Roger Morgan (1979)
- Dennis Parichy (1980)
- Jules Fisher / Robby Monk (1981)
- Tharon Musser / Marcia Madeira (1982)
- David Hersey (1983)
- Richard Nelson (1984)
- Richard Riddell (1985)
- Pat Collins (1986)
- Chris Parry (1987)
- Andrew Bridge (1988)
- Jennifer Tipton (1989)
- Jules Fisher (1990)
- David Hersey (1991)
- Paul Gallo / Jules Fisher (1992)
- Chris Parry (1993)
- Rick Fisher (1994)
- Richard Pilbrow (1995)
- Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher (1996)
- Ken Billington (1997)
- Donald Holder (1998)
- Chris Parry (1999)
- Peter Kaczorowski (2000)
- Paul Anderson (2001)
- T. J. Gerckens (2002)
- Nigel Levings (2003)
- Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher (2004)
- Christopher Akerlind (2005)
- Richard G. Jones (2006)
- Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner, and Natasha Katz (2007)
- Kevin Adams (2008)
- Neil Austin (2010)
- David Lander (2011)
- Brian MacDevitt (2012)
- Justin Townsend / Daniel Winters (2013)
- Christopher Akerlind (2014)
- Paule Constable (2015)