Drama_Desk_Award_for_Outstanding_Lighting_Design
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.
Quick Facts Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design, Awarded for ...
| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design | |
|---|---|
| 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) |
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1970s
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| 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 |
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1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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2010s
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| 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 |
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