Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Projection Design

Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Projection Design
Drama Desk Award ; for Outstanding Projection Design
Awarded for	Outstanding projection Design
Location	New York City
Country	United States
Presented by	Drama Desk
First award	2008
Currently held by	David Bergman, The Picture of Dorian Gray (2025)
Website	dramadesk.org

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Projection Design is 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.^[1]

Quick facts Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Projection Design, Awarded for ...

The category was added for the 2008-2009 ceremony but was not subsequently included until the 2015-2016 season.

Finn Ross holds the record for most wins in the category, with three, followed closely by Peter Nigrini and Aaron Rhyne with two each. Nigrini holds the record for most nominations, with six, followed by Finn Ross with four.

[1]

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
2008
	Timothy Bird & The Knifedge Creative Network	Sunday in the Park with George	^[2]^[3] ^[4]
	Paul Barritt	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
	Zachary Borovay	A Catered Affair
	Jim Findlay & Jeff Sugg	The Slug Bearers of Karol Island
	Lorna Heavey	Macbeth
	Tal Yarden	The Misanthrope
2009	N/A

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
2010-2012	N/A
2013
	Peter Nigrini	Here Lies Love	^[5]^[6]
	Jon Driscoll	Chaplin: The Musical
	Wendall K. Harrington	Old Hats
	Darrel Maloney	Checkers
	Pedro Pires	Cirque du Soleil: Totem
	Aaron Rhyne	Wild With Happy
2014
	Aaron Rhyne	A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder	^[7]^[8] ^[9]
	Robert Massicotte and Alexis Laurence	Cirkopolis
	Sven Ortel	A Midsummer Night's Dream
	Shawn Sagady	All The Way
	Austin Switser	Sontag: Reborn
	Ben Rubin	Arguendo
2015
	Finn Ross	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	^[10]^[11]
	59 Productions	An American in Paris
	Roger Hanna & Price Johnston	Donogoo
	Darrel Maloney	Found
	Peter Nigrini	Our Lady of Kibeho
	Austin Zwitser	Big Love
2016
	Finn Ross	American Psycho	^[12]^[13]
	Nicholas Hussong	These Paper Bullets!
	Darrel Maloney	Tappin’ Thru Life
	Peter Nigrini	Dear Evan Hansen
	Tal Yarden	Lazarus
2017
	Aaron Rhyne	Anastasia	^[14]^[15]
	Reid Farrington	CasablancaBox
	Elaine J. McCarthy	Notes from the Field
	Jared Mezzocchi	Vietgone
	John Narun	Gorey: The Secret Lives of Edward
2018
	Finn Ross and Ash J. Woodward	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child	^[16]^[17]
	David Bengali	Van Gogh’s Ear, Ensemble for the Romantic Century
	Andrezj Goulding	People, Places & Things, National Theatre/St. Ann’s Warehouse/Bryan Singer Productions/Headlong
	Peter Nigrini	SpongeBob SquarePants
	Finn Ross and Adam Young	Mean Girls
2019
	Peter England	King Kong	^[18]^[19]
	Katherine Freer	By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
	Luke Halls	The Lehman Trilogy
	Alex Basco Koch	Be More Chill
	Peter Nigrini	Beetlejuice
	Joshua Thorson	Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

Year	Designer	Production	Ref.
2020
	Luke Halls	West Side Story	^[20]^[21]
	David Bengali	Einstein's Dreams
	Julia Frey	Medea
	Lisa Renkel and POSSIBLE	Emojiland
	Hannah Wasileski	Fires in the Mirror
2021	No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City		^[22]
2022
	59 Productions	Flying Over Sunset	^[23]^[24] ^[25]
	David Bengali	Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
	Stefania Bulbarella and Alex Basco Koch	Space Dogs
	Shawn Duan	The Chinese Lady
	Sven Ortel	Thoughts of a Colored Man
2023
	Andrzej Goulding	Life of Pi	^[26]^[27]
	Simon Baker	Wuthering Heights
	Caite Hevner	Between the Lines
	Josh Higgason	White Girl in Danger
	Nicholas Hussong	On That Day in Amsterdam
	Johnny Moreno	Public Obsceneties
2024	Peter Nigrini	Hell's Kitchen	^[28]^[29]
	Eric Dunlap	Our Class
	Jared Mezzocchi	Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy
	Olivia Sebesky	Melissa Etheridge: My Window
	Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew	The Connector
2025
	David Bergman	The Picture of Dorian Gray	^[30]^[31]
	Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom	Sunset Blvd.
	Jake Barton	McNeal
	Jesse Garrison	The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux]
	Hana S. Kim	Redwood

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Projection Design

Winners and nominees

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

References

External links

Wikiwand - on