Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design in a Play

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design for a Play is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City.

Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Sound Design
Awarded forOutstanding Sound Design in a Play
LocationNew York City
CountryUnited States
Presented byDrama Desk
First awarded2010
Currently held byRyan Rumery for Stereophonic (2024)
Websitedramadesk.org (defunct)

The award was established in 1980, with the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design being presented each year to any play or musical production. Starting in 2010, the singular award was replaced by separate play and musical categories.

Winners and nominees

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2010s

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Year Designer Production
2010
Fitz Patton When the Rain Stops Falling
Dan Bianchi and Wes Shippee Frankenstein
Dale Bigall Underground
Adam Cork ENRON
Lindsay Jones Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers
Elizabeth Rhodes John Ball's In the Heat of the Night
2011
Acme Sound Partners and Cricket S. Myers Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Acme Sound Partners The Merchant of Venice
Ian Dickinson John Gabriel Borkman
Brett Jarvis Baby Universe
Bray Poor Wings
Eric Shimelonis The Hallway Trilogy
2012
John Gromada The Best Man
Quentin Chiappetta The Navigator
Gregory Clarke Misterman
Gareth Fry Richard III
Stowe Nelson Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War
Shane Rettig She Kills Monsters
2013
Mel Mercier The Testament of Mary
Ien DeNio The Pilo Family Circus
Steve Fontaine Last Man Club
Christian Frederickson Through the Yellow Hour
Lindsay Jones Wild With Happy
Fergus O'Hare Macbeth
2014
Matt Tierney Machinal
M.L. Dogg The Open House
Katie Down The Golden Dragon
Paul James Prendergast All the Way
Dan Moses Schreier Act One
Christopher Shutt Love and Information
2015
Ian Dickinson (for Autograph) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Nathan Davis The Other Mozart
Ien Denio Deliverance
Gareth Fry Let the Right One In
John Gromada Lives of the Saints (an anthology of short plays by David Ives)
Matt Tierney Our Lady of Kibeho
2016
Fitz Patton The Humans
Fitz Patton An Act of God
Miles Polaski Fulfillment
Bray Poor John
Ryan Rumery Empanada Loca
2017
Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin The Encounter
Mikhail Fiksel A Life
Brian Quijada Where Did We Sit on the Bus?
Leon Rothenberg Notes from the Field
Jane Shaw Men on Boats
2018
Gareth Fry Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Brendan Aanes Balls
Tom Gibbons 1984
People, Places and Things
Stefan Gregory Yerma
Palmer Hefferan Today is My Birthday
2019
Nick Powell The Ferryman
Tyler Kieffer Plano
Fitz Patton Choir Boy
Jane Shaw I Was Most Alive with You
Mikaal Sulaiman Fairview

2020s

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Year Designer Production
2020
Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid The Inheritance
Justin Ellington Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Mikhail Fiksel Dana H.
Palmer Hefferan Fefu and Her Friends
Lee Kinney and Sanae Yamada Is This A Room
2021 No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City[1]
2022
Ben and Max Ringham Cyrano de Bergerac
Tyler Kieffer Seven Deadly Sins
Hidenori Nakajo and Ryan Rumery Autumn Royal
Mikaal Sulaiman Sanctuary City
Lee Kinney Selling Kabul
2023
Ben & Max Ringham A Doll's House
Justin Ellington Ohio State Murders
Tom Gibbons Hamlet
Josh Anio Grigg Love
Lee Kinney & Daniel Kluger You Will Get Sick
Mikaal Sulaiman Fat Ham
2024
Ryan Rumery Stereophonic
Adam Cork The Hunt
Tom Gibbons Grey House
Palmer Hefferan The Comeuppance
Bray Poor and Will Pickens Appropriate

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Evans, Greg (2021-05-05). "Broadway To Reopen Sept. 14, Says Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Broadway League "Cautiously Optimistic"". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
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