Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. This category was not created until the 1980 ceremony and has only been regularly awarded since 2009.
| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Music in a Play |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | Drama Desk |
| Currently held by | Martha Redbone for for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (2020) |
| Website | DramaDeskAwards.com |
† - indicates the performance won the Tony Award
‡ - indicates the performance was also nominated for the Tony Award
Winners and nominees
1980s
| Year | Composer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | ||
| Norman L. Berman | Strider | |
| Richard Peaslee | Teibele and Her Demon | |
| Stanley Silverman | Bent | |
| 1981–89 | N/A | |
1990s
| Year | Composer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 1990–91 | N/A | |
| 1992 | ||
| Jan A.P. Kaczmarek | 'Tis Pity She's a Whore | |
| Richard Peaslee | Akin | |
| 1993 | ||
| Ladysmith Black Mambazo | The Song of Jacob Zulu | |
| 1994 | ||
| Stephen Warbeck | An Inspector Calls | |
| Jonathan Dove | Medea | |
| Duke Ellington & Stanley Silverman | Timon of Athens | |
| 1995–98 | N/A | |
| 1999 | ||
| Jeanine Tesori | Twelfth Night ‡ | |
| Steven Edis | Not About Nightingales | |
| Drew McVety | Corpus Christi | |
| David Van Tieghem | The Turn of the Screw | |
| Richard Woodbury | Death of a Salesman | |
2000s
| Year | Composer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 2000–01 | N/A | |
| 2002 | ||
| Willy Schwarz | Metamorphoses | |
| Crispin Cioe | True Love | |
| Nona Hendryx | Blue | |
| Peter John Still | Cymbeline | |
| 2003–06 | N/A | |
| 2007 | ||
| Mark Bennett | The Coast of Utopia | |
| Adam Cork | Frost/Nixon | |
| Gerard McBurney | Oliver Twist | |
| The Propeller Company | The Taming of the Shrew | |
| Ray Rizzo, Adam Rapp & Lucas Papaelias | Essential Self-Defense | |
| David Van Tieghem | Inherit the Wind | |
| 2008 | N/A | |
| 2009 | ||
| Dominic Kanza | Ruined | |
| Mark Bennett | The Cherry Orchard | |
| The Winter's Tale | ||
| DJ Rekha | Rafta, Rafta... | |
| Richard Woodbury | Desire Under the Elms | |
| Gary Yershon | The Norman Conquests | |
2010s
| Year | Composer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||
| Branford Marsalis | Fences ‡ | |
| Adam Cochran | A Play on War | |
| Adam Cork | Red | |
| Shelby Gaines & Latham Gaines | A Lie of the Mind | |
| Philip Glass | The Bacchae | |
| Hem | Twelfth Night | |
| 2011 | ||
| Wayne Barker | Peter and the Starcatcher ‡ | |
| Kathryn Bostic | Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | |
| Lars Petter Hagen | Baby Universe | |
| Alan John | The Diary of a Madman | |
| Tom Kitt | The Winter's Tale | |
| Dan Moses Schreier | The Merchant of Venice | |
| 2012 | ||
| Grant Olding | One Man, Two Guvnors ‡ | |
| Mark Bennett | An Iliad | |
| Richard III | ||
| Tom Kitt | All's Well That Ends Well | |
| Gina Leishman | Septimus and Clarissa | |
| Duncan Sheik & Suzanne Vega | Carson McCullers Talks About Love | |
| 2013 | ||
| Glen Kelly | The Nance | |
| César Alvarez with The Lisps | The Good Person of Szechwan | |
| Jiří Kadeřábek, Mahir Cetiz & Ana Milosavljevic | Act Before You Speak: The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
| Eugene Ma | The Man Who Laughs | |
| Steve Martin | As You Like It | |
| Jane Wang | Strange Tales of Liaozhai | |
| 2014 | ||
| Nico Muhly | The Glass Menagerie | |
| Lewis Flinn | The Tribute Artist | |
| Elliot Goldenthal | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| Rob Kearns | The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle | |
| Tom Kochan | Almost, Maine | |
| Duncan Sheik | A Man's a Man | |
| 2015 | ||
| Arthur Solari & Jane Shaw | Tamburlaine the Great | |
| Cesar Alvarez | An Octoroon | |
| Danny Blackburn and Bryce Hodgson | Deliverance | |
| Sean Cronin | Kill Me Like You Mean It | |
| Bongi Duma | Generations | |
| Freddi Price | The Pigeoning | |
| 2016 | ||
| Philip Glass | The Crucible | |
| Billie Joe Armstrong | These Paper Bullets! | |
| Estelle Bajou | Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally | |
| Shaun Davey | Pericles | |
| Tom Kitt | Cymbeline | |
| 2017 | ||
| Bill Sims Jr. | Jitney | |
| Daniel Ocanto, Graham Ulicny, & Sean Smith | Alligator | |
| Marcus Shelby | Notes from the Field | |
| 2018 | ||
| Imogen Heap | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | |
| Justin Hicks | Mlima’s Tale | |
| Amatus Karim-Ali | The Homecoming Queen | |
| Justin Levine | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | |
| Adrian Sutton | Angels in America ‡ | |
| 2019 | ||
| Jason Michael Webb and Fitz Patton | Choir Boy | |
| Paul Castles and Jongbin Jung | Wild Goose Dreams | |
| Justin Ellington | Mrs. Murray's Menagerie | |
| The House That Will Not Stand | ||
| Nick Powell | The Lehman Trilogy |
2020s
| Year | Composer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||
| Martha Redbone | for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf | |
| Steve Earle | Coal Country | |
| Frightened Rabbit | Square Go | |
| Jim Harbourne | Feral | |
| Adam Seidel, Jane Bruce, and Daniel Ocanto | Original Sound |
See also
References
- "Drama Desk Award for Music". Internet Broadway Database. 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
External links
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