Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design

Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Set Design
Drama Desk Award ; for Outstanding Set Design
Awarded for	Outstanding Set Design
Location	New York City
Country	United States
Presented by	Drama Desk
First award	1969
Final award	2015
Website	dramadesk.org (defunct)

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design was 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. The award was first presented in 1969, for work in either a play or musical production. It was retired after the 1997 ceremony, replaced by separate play and musical categories, but returned as a singular category starting in 2010. It was permanently retired after the 2015 presentation, again replaced by separate play and musical categories.

Quick Facts Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design, Awarded for ...

Year	Designer	Production
1969
	Boris Aronson	*Zorba*
	Ming Cho Lee	*Billy*

Year	Designer	Production
1970
	Boris Aronson	*Company*
	Jo Mielziner	*Child's Play*
	Fred Voelpe	The Memory Bank
1971
	Boris Aronson	*Follies*
	Sally Jacobs	*A Midsummer Night's Dream*
	Robin Wagner	Lenny
1972
	Santo Loquasto	Sticks and Bones
	Santo Loquasto	*That Championship Season*
	Kert Lundell	*Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death*
	Robert U. Taylor	The Beggar's Opera
1973
	Victor Garcia and Fabian Puigserver	Yerma
	David Jenkins	*The Changing Room*
	Tony Walton	*Pippin*
	Tony Walton	Shelter
1974
	Franne Lee and Eugene Lee	*Candide*
	David Mitchell	Short Eyes
	Douglas W. Schmidt	Over Here!
	Douglas W. Schmidt	Veronica's Room
1975
	Carl Toms	*Sherlock Holmes*
	John Conklin	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
	Tom H. John	The Wiz
	Scott Johnson	Dance with Me
	John Napier	Equus
	Julia Trevelyan Oman	Brief Lives
	William Ritman	God's Favorite
	Franco Zeffirelli	Saturday Sunday Monday
1976
	Boris Aronson	*Pacific Overtures*
	John Lee Beatty	Knock Knock
	Santo Loquasto	Kennedy's Children
	Santo Loquasto	Legend
	Robert U. Taylor	Lamppost Reunion
	James Tilton	A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
	James Tilton	They Knew What They Wanted
1977
	Santo Loquasto	*American Buffalo*
	Santo Loquasto	*The Cherry Orchard*
	John Lee Beatty	The Innocents
	Clarke Dunham	Hagar's Children
	George C. Jenkins	Sly Fox
	Robert Randolph	Porgy and Bess
	Douglas W. Schmidt	The Crazy Locomotive
	Douglas W. Schmidt	The Robber Bridegroom
1978
	Robin Wagner	*On the Twentieth Century*
	Edward Gorey	Dracula
	Judie Juracek	P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
	Santo Loquasto	The Play's the Thing
	David Mitchell	The Gin Game
	William Ritman	Deathtrap
1979
	John Wulp	*The Crucifer of Blood*
	Wilford Leach	All's Well That Ends Well
	Eugene Lee	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Santo Loquasto	King of Hearts
	Steven Rubin	On Golden Pond

Year	Designer	Production
1980
	John Lee Beatty	*Talley's Folly*
	David Jenkins	The Art of Dining
	David Jenkins	I Ought to Be in Pictures
	David Mitchell	Barnum
	William Ritman	Morning's at Seven
	Douglas W. Schmidt	Sidewalkin'
1981
	John Lee Beatty	*Fifth of July*
	John Bury	Amadeus
	Wilford Leach and Bob Shaw	The Pirates of Penzance
	Douglas W. Schmidt	Frankenstein
1982
	Robin Wagner	*Dreamgirls*
	David Chapman	The First
	Laurie Dennett	The Dresser
	Eugene Lee	The Hothouse
	Santo Loquasto	Crossing Niagara
	Santo Loquasto	Gardenia
	Stuart Wurtzel	Henry IV
1983
	Ming Cho Lee	K2
	John Gunter	All's Well That Ends Well
	Andrew Jackness	Geniuses
	Andrew Jackness	Whodunnit
	Marjorie Bradley Kellogg	Extremities
		Present Laughter
		Steaming
	Kert Lundell	Johnny Got His Gun
	Douglas W. Schmidt	Death of Von Richthofen Witnessed from Earth
1984
	Tony Straiges	*Sunday in the Park with George*
	Michael Annals	Noises Off
	Peter Larkin	The Rink
	David Potts	Full Hookup
	Bill Stabile	Spookhouse
	Tony Walton	The Real Thing
1985
	Heidi Ettinger	*Big River*
	John Lee Beatty	The Octette Bridge Club
	Clarke Dunham	Grind
	James Leonard Joy	Digby
	Marjorie Bradley Kellogg	Requiem for a Heavyweight
	Ralph Koltai	Much Ado About Nothing
	Kevin Rigdon	Balm in Gilead
1986
	Tony Walton	Social Security
	Tony Walton	*The House of Blue Leaves*
	William Barclay	Goblin Market
	Ming Cho Lee	Execution of Justice
	Thomas Lynch	Little Footsteps
	Bob Shaw	Hamlet
	Bob Shaw	The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1987
	John Napier	*Les Misérables*
	John Napier	Starlight Express
	Bob Crowley	Les Liaisons Dangereuses
	Edward Gianfrancesco	North Shore Fish
	John Gunter	Wild Honey
	Martin Johns	Me and My Girl
	Tony Walton	The Front Page
1988
	Maria Björnson	*The Phantom of the Opera*
	Scott Bradley	Joe Turner's Come and Gone
	Eiko Ishioka	M. Butterfly
	Tony Straiges	Into the Woods
	Tony Walton	Anything Goes
1989
	Santo Loquasto	Italian American Reconciliation
	Santo Loquasto	*Café Crown*
	Loy Arcenas	Reckless
	John Lee Beatty	Aristocrats
	Thomas Lynch	The Heidi Chronicles
	James Morgan	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Tony Walton	Lend Me a Tenor

Year	Designer	Production
1990
	Robin Wagner	*City of Angels*
	Edward Gianfrancesco	The Widow's Blind Date
	Kevin Rigdon	The Grapes of Wrath
	Tony Walton	Grand Hotel
1991
	Heidi Ettinger	*The Secret Garden*
	David Gallo	Machinal
	Richard Hudson	La Bête
	Andrew Jackness	Road to Nirvana
1992
	Tony Walton	*Guys and Dolls*
	John Conklin	'Tis Pity She's a Whore
	Joe Vanek	Dancing at Lughnasa
	Robin Wagner	Crazy for You
	James Youmans	Bella, Belle of Byelorussia
1993
	John Arnone and Wendall K. Harrington	*The Who's Tommy*
	Mark Beard	Brother Truckers
	Heidi Ettinger	One Shoe Off
	Guy-Claude Francois	Les Atrides
	Jerome Sirlin	Kiss of the Spider Woman
1994
	Ian MacNeil	*An Inspector Calls*
	Bob Crowley	Carousel
	Peter J. Davison	Medea
	Marina Draghici	The Lights
	Adrianne Lobel	Passion
	George Tsypin	In the Summer House
1995
	Eugene Lee	Show Boat
	Bob Crowley	Hapgood
	Stephen Brimson Lewis	Indiscretions
	Santo Loquasto	A Month in the Country
	Mark Thompson	Arcadia
	James Youmans	The Petrified Prince

Year	Designer	Production
2010
	Phelim McDermott, Julian Crouch and Basil Twist	The Addams Family
	Sandra Goldmark	The Boys in the Band
	Derek McLane	Ragtime
	Christopher Oram	Red
	Jay Rohloff	Underground
	Karen Tennent	Hansel and Gretel
2011
	Derek McLane	*Anything Goes*
	Rachel Hauck	Orange, Hat & Grace
	David Korins and Zachary Borovay	Lombardi
	Derek McLane	Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
	Tony Straiges	Treasure Island
	Mark Wendland	The Merchant of Venice
2012
	Jon Driscoll, Rob Howell and Paul Kieve	*Ghost the Musical*
	David Gallo	The Mountaintop
	Roger Hanna	A Little Journey
	David Korins	Assistance
	David Korins	Chinglish
	Derek McLane	Follies
2013
	Rob Howell	*Matilda the Musical*
	Mimi Lien	The Whale
	Santo Loquasto	The Assembled Parties
	Anna Louizos	The Mystery of Edwin Drood
	Michael Yeargan	Golden Boy
	David Zinn	The Flick
2014
	Christopher Barreca	*Rocky the Musical*
	Alexander Dodge	A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
	Richard Hoover	Small Engine Repair
	Santo Loquasto	Bullets Over Broadway
	Ian MacNeil	A Doll's House
	Donyale Werle	The Explorers Club
2015
	Bob Crowley	An American in Paris
	Christine Jones	Let the Right One In
	David Korins	Hamilton
	Mimi Lien	An Octoroon
	Scott Pask	The Visit
	Daniel Zimmerman	Fashions for Men

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design

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