Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design for a Musical 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 Sound Design
Awarded for	Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical
Location	New York City
Country	United States
Presented by	Drama Desk
First award	2010
Currently held by	Peter Hylenski for Just in Time (2025)
Website	dramadesk.org (defunct)

The award was established in 1980, with the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design being presented each year to any play or musical production. Starting in 2010, the singular award was replaced by separate play and musical categories.

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Designer	Production
2010
	Acme Sound Partners	Ragtime
	Jonathan Deans	La Cage aux Folles
	Kurt Eric Fischer, Ashley Hanson and Brian Ronan	Everyday Rapture
	Peter Hylenski	The Scottsboro Boys
	Scott Lehrer	Finian's Rainbow
	Brian Ronan	Promises, Promises
2011
	Brian Ronan	Anything Goes
	Lindsay Jones	The Burnt Part Boys
	Michael Rasbury	Hello Again
	Brian Ronan	The Book of Mormon
	Jon Weston	In Transit
2012
	Acme Sound Partners	Porgy and Bess
	Jonathan Deans	Carrie
	Clive Goodwin	Once
	Kai Harada	Follies
	Steve Canyon Kennedy	Jesus Christ Superstar
	Jon Weston	Death Takes a Holiday
2013
	Steve Canyon Kennedy	Hands on a Hardbody
	Scott Lehrer and Drew Levy	Chaplin: The Musical
	Tony Meola	The Mystery of Edwin Drood
	Brian Ronan	Bring It On: The Musical
		Giant
	Dan Moses Schreier	Passion
2014
	Brian Ronan	Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
	Kai Harada	Fun Home
	Peter Hylenski	Bullets Over Broadway
		Rocky the Musical
	Dan Moses Schreier	A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
	Jon Weston	The Bridges of Madison County
2015
	Nevin Steinberg	Hamilton
	Peter Hylenski	Side Show
	Scott Lehrer	The King and I
	Scott Lehrer and Drew Levy	Honeymoon in Vegas
	Brian Ronan	The Last Ship
	Jon Weston	An American in Paris
2016
	Dan Moses Schreier	American Psycho
	Mick Potter	School of Rock
	Brian Ronan	Lazarus
	Nevin Steinberg	Bright Star
	Scott Lehrer	Shuffle Along
2017
	Nicholas Pope	Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
	Simon Baker	946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
	Peter Hylenski	Anastasia
	Scott Lehrer	Hello, Dolly!
	Mick Potter	Cats
	Brian Ronan	War Paint
	Matt Stine	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2018
	Kai Harada	The Band's Visit
	Scott Lehrer	Carousel
	Will Pickens	KPOP
	Dan Moses Schreier	Pacific Overtures
2019
	Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz	Hadestown
	Simon Baker	Girl from the North Country
	Drew Levy	Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
	Brian Ronan	Tootsie
	Mikaal Sulaiman	Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future

2020s

Year	Designer	Production
2020
	Peter Hylenski	Moulin Rouge!
	Tom Gibbons	West Side Story
	Kai Harada	Soft Power
	Hidenori Nakajo	Octet
	Nevin Steinberg	The Wrong Man
2021	No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City[1]
2022
	Gareth Owen	MJ
	Ian Dickinson for Autograph	Company
	Paul Gatehouse	Six
	Kai Harada	Kimberly Akimbo
2023
	Scott Lehrer and Alex Neumann	Into the Woods
	Peter Hylenski	Almost Famous
	John Shivers	Shucked
	Joanna Lynne Staub	Weightless
	Jon Weston	Parade
2024
	Nick Lidster for Autograph	Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
	Cody Spencer	The Outsiders
	Walter Trarbach	Water for Elephants
	Jason Crystal	Suffs
	Kai Harada and Joshua Millican	Dead Outlaw
2025[2]
	Peter Hylenski	Just in Time
	Adam Fisher	Sunset Blvd.
	Scott Lehrer	Gypsy
	Mick Potter	Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
	Dan Moses Schreier	Floyd Collins

See also

• Laurence Olivier Award for Best Sound Design
• Tony Award for Best Sound Design