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.
| 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) |
Winners and nominees
edit1970s
edit| Year | Designer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 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
edit1990s
edit2000s
edit2010s
edit| Year | Designer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |