The 2013 Drama Desk Award Winners
This year’s 2013 Drama Desk Award Winners are:
Outstanding Play
Christopher Durang, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Outstanding Musical
Matilda
Outstanding Revival of a Play
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Outstanding Revival of a Musical or Revue
Pippin
Outstanding Actor in a Play
Tracy Letts, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Outstanding Actress in a Play
Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Billy Porter, Kinky Boots
Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Laura Osnes, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Richard Kind, The Big Knife
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Judith Light, The Assembled Parties
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Bertie Carvel, Matilda
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Andrea Martin, Pippin
Outstanding Director of a Play
Pam MacKinnon, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Outstanding Director of a Musical
Diane Paulus, Pippin
Outstanding Choreography
Chet Walker and Gypsy Snider, Pippin
Outstanding Music
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love
Outstanding Lyrics
Tim Minchin, Matilda
Outstanding Book of a Musical
Dennis Kelly, Matilda
Outstanding Orchestrations
Danny Troob, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Outstanding Music in a Play
Glen Kelly, The Nance
Outstanding Revue
Old Hats
Outstanding Set Design
Rob Howell, Matilda
Outstanding Costume Design
William Ivey Long, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Outstanding Lighting Design
Justin Townsend, Here Lies Love Daniel Winters, The Man Who Laughs
Outstanding Projection Design
Peter Nigrini, Here Lies Love
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical (3-WAY TIE)
Steve Canyon Kennedy, Hands on a Hardbody
Scott Lehrer and Drew Levy, Chaplin: The Musical
Tony Meola, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Outstanding Sound Design in a Play
Mel Mercier, The Testament of Mary
Outstanding Solo Performance
Michael Urie, Buyer & Cellar
Unique Theatrical Experience
Cirque du Soleil: Totem

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