drama desk nominations

Here are the nominations for the 2024 Drama Desk Awards, which were announced on April 29, 2024, honoring the best of the 2023-2024 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. Note: There are no "Drama Desk Nominations" for 2025 yet. The 2025 nominations will typically be announced in late April 2025 for the 2024-2025 season. Here is a summary of the major categories for the 2024 Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Play Doubt: A Parable (Revival) Jaja's African Hair Braiding Purlie Victorious (Revival) Stereophonic The Comeuppance The Welkin Outstanding Musical Days of Wine and Roses Dead Outlaw Gutenberg! The Musical! Hell's Kitchen The Outsiders Water for Elephants Outstanding Revival of a Play An Enemy of the People Appropriate Doubt: A Parable The Hunt Purlie Victorious Waiting for Godot Outstanding Revival of a Musical Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Merrily We Roll Along Monty Python's Spamalot The Wiz Titanique (Off-Broadway) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Opera/Musical Play) Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play Will Brill Stereophonic Jessica Brown Findlay The Hunt Sarah Paulson Appropriate Liev Schreiber Doubt: A Parable Kara Young Purlie Victorious William Jackson Harper Primary Trust Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical Brody Grant The Outsiders Jonathan Groff Merrily We Roll Along Kelli O'Hara Days of Wine and Roses Maleah Joi Moon Hell's Kitchen Sutton Foster Once Upon a Mattress (Nominations for this season were for the Encores! production) Brian d'Arcy James Days of Wine and Roses Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play Quincy Tyler Bernstine Doubt: A Parable Eli Gelb Stereophonic Jim Parsons Mother Play Juliana Canfield Stereophonic Aya Cash The Comeuppance Annie Fang The Ally Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical Olivia Kaufmann The Outsiders Shoshana Bean Hell's Kitchen Brandon Victor Dixon The Wiz Joshua Boone The Outsiders Nikki Crawford The Wiz Bebe Neuwirth Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Outstanding Director of a Play Daniel Aukin Stereophonic Victoria Clark Doubt: A Parable Lila Neugebauer Appropriate Kenny Leon Purlie Victorious David Cromer The Hunt Outstanding Director of a Musical Maria Friedman Merrily We Roll Along Michael Arden The Outsiders Rebecca Frecknall Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Jessica Stone Water for Elephants Michael Mayer Days of Wine and Roses Outstanding Music Justin Levine, Jonathan Oleksiak, Matt Hinkley, Jamestown Revival The Outsiders Will Aronson A Man of No Importance (Encores! Off-Broadway) Scott Gilman Dead Outlaw Adam Guettel Days of Wine and Roses Will Butler Stereophonic Shaina Taub Suffs Outstanding Lyrics Shaina Taub Suffs Adam Guettel Days of Wine and Roses Erik Della Penna Dead Outlaw Michael R. Jackson Teeth Daniel Messé The Lonely Few Jonathan Hogue The Pink Unicorn Outstanding Book of a Musical David West Read The Outsiders Craig Lucas Days of Wine and Roses Kristoffer Diaz Hell's Kitchen Ittai Yerushalmy Dead Outlaw Sutton Foster, Rachel Sussman, Lilli Cooper, Katie Thompson Once Upon a Mattress John Weidman The Bedwetter Special Awards (Selected) Special Award (Ensemble): The cast of An Enemy of the People (Sam Gold's production). Special Award (Sustained Excellence): André De Shields. Regional Excellence Award: The Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.). Would you like to see the full list of all 30+ categories, or are you looking for winners (the ceremony took place June 10, 2024)?