Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Projection Design

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]

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	Peter Nigrini for Hell's Kitchen (2024)
Website	dramadesk.org

Winners and nominees

Source:^[2]

2000s

Year	Designer	Production
2008[3]
	Timothy Bird & The Knifedge Creative Network	Sunday in the Park with George
	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

2010s

Year	Designer	Production
2013[4]
	Peter Nigrini	Here Lies Love
	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[5][6]
	Aaron Rhyne	A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
	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[7]
	Finn Ross	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
	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[8][9]
	Finn Ross	American Psycho
	Nicholas Hussong	These Paper Bullets!
	Darrel Maloney	Tappin’ Thru Life
	Peter Nigrini	Dear Evan Hansen
	Tal Yarden	Lazarus
2017[10]
	Aaron Rhyne	Anastasia
	Reid Farrington	CasablancaBox
	Elaine J. McCarthy	Notes from the Field
	Jared Mezzocchi	Vietgone
	John Narun	Gorey: The Secret Lives of Edward
2018[11]
	Finn Ross and Ash J. Woodward	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
	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
	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!

2020s

Year	Designer	Production
2020
	Luke Halls	West Side Story
	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[12]
2022
	59 Productions	Flying Over Sunset
	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
	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
	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[13]	Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom	Sunset Blvd.
	Jake Barton	McNeal
	David Bergman	The Picture of Dorian Gray
	Jesse Garrison	The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux]
	Hana S. Kim	Redwood