Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design of a Play

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume 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 Costume Design for a Play
Awarded for	Outstanding Costume Design for a Play
Location	New York City
Country	United States
Presented by	Drama Desk
First award	2016
Currently held by	Dede Ayite for Our Town (2025)
Website	dramadesk.org (defunct)

The award was established in 1969, with the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design being presented each year to any play or musical production. Starting in 2016, the singular award was replaced by separate play and musical categories.

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Designer	Production
2016
	Anita Yavich	The Legend of Georgia McBride
	Jessica Ford	These Paper Bullets!
	Martha Hally	Women Without Men
	Constance Hoffman	Pericles
	William Ivey Long	Shows for Days
2017
	Jane Greenwood	The Little Foxes
	Susan Hilferty	Present Laughter
	Murell Horton	The Liar
	Toni-Leslie James	Jitney
	Stewart Laing	The Hairy Ape
	Ann Roth	The Front Page
2018
	Jonathan Fensom	Farinelli and the King
	Dede M. Ayite	School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
	Katrina Lindsay	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
	Ann Roth	Three Tall Women
	Emilio Sosa	Venus
2019
	Toni-Leslie James	Bernhardt/Hamlet
	Dede M. Ayite	By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
		If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka
	Ásta Bennie Hostetter	Mrs. Murray's Menagerie
	Nicole Slaven	Henry VI: Shakespeare's Trilogy in Two Parts

2020s

Year	Designer	Production
2020
	Rachel Townsend and Jessica Jahn	The Confession of Lily Dare
	Asa Benally	Blues for an Alabama Sky
	Montana Levi Blanco	Fefu and Her Friends
	Toni-Leslie James	for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
	Antony McDonald	Judgment Day
	Kaye Voyce	Coriolanus
2021	No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City[1]
2022
	Jennifer Moeller	Clyde's
	Linda Cho	The Chinese Lady
	Gregory Gale	Fairycakes
	Tilly Grimes	The Alchemist
	Qween Jean	On Sugarland
2023	Emilio Sosa	Ain't No Mo'
	Kara Branch	According to the Chorus
	Enver Chakartash	Public Obscenities
	Qween Jean	Wedding Band
	Sarah Laux	Wish You Were Here
	Roberto Surace	Peter Pan Goes Wrong
2024	Enver Chakartash	Stereophonic
	Alex Berry	Macbeth (an undoing)
	Karen Boyer	Warrior Sisters of Wu
	Lux Haac	Manahatta
	Rodrigo Muñoz	Sally & Tom
2025[2]
	Dede Ayite	Our Town
	Brenda Abbandandolo	The Antiquities
	Christopher Ford	The Beastiary
	Camilla Lind	Dark Noon
	Karl Ruckdeschel	Twelfth Night

See also

• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design of a Musical
• Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design
• Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play