• This is a list of winners of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director introduced in 1955 to honour directors, with no distinction between work in...
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  • The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in theatre across...
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  • The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre across...
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  • The Drama Desk Award is an annual prize recognizing excellence in New York theatre. First bestowed in 1955 as the Vernon Rice Award, the prize initially...
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    Booth Theatre. Awards 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play – The Piano Lesson 2001 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play – The...
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  • Trevor Nunn (category English film directors)
    Award for Best Direction of a Musical, the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director, and the Drama Desk Award...
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  • Merchant of Venice 2017 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play - If I Forget 2017 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play - The Little...
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    Leigh Silverman (category American theatre directors)
    for the musicals Violet and Suffs, and the 2008 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for the play From Up Here. Silverman was born in Rockville...
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  • Richard Maltby Jr. (category American theatre directors)
    N.Y. Drama Critics, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards, also Tony Award for Best Director) and Fosse (1999: Tony, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards). Maltby...
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  • Shirley Valentine (category Laurence Olivier Award–winning plays)
    Nominations 1989 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play 1989 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play 1989 Tony Award for Best Play Russell...
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  • master's own plans for them. The music was by Jim Dale. In 1974 Frank Dunlop was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director; Dale won the...
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    Allison Janney (category Drama Desk Award winners)
    "affecting". For her performance, Janney won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress...
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  • John Tillinger (category American theatre directors)
    Lortel Award for Outstanding Director (Love Letters, winner) 1986 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (Loot, nominee) 1986 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding...
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    Matthew Warchus (category British film directors)
    Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play transfer of his Old Vic production of The Norman Conquests, for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding...
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    John Larroquette (category Drama Desk Award winners)
    Bigley in a role for which he received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a...
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  • Graciela Daniele (category American musical theatre directors)
    Foretold) 1996 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical (Chronicle of a Death Foretold) 1994 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography...
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  • Kevin Conway (actor) (category Film directors from New York City)
    Small), and Dinner at Eight. In 1980, he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play (Mecca). In his first major screen role...
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  • John Tiffany (category Drama Desk Award winners)
    Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, 2018 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play, and 2018 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director...
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  • Award for Best Direction of a Musical Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical Drama Desk Award...
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    Deborah Warner (category English theatre directors)
    "for services to drama". Nominations 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play – The Waste Land 2003 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director...
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    Tom Hulce (category Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie Primetime Emmy Award winners)
    that won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Critics Circle Award, and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play....
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    A Lie of the Mind (category Drama Desk Award–winning plays)
    Lortel Awards for Outstanding Revival (nominee) 2010 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Director of a Play, Ethan Hawke (nominee) 2010 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding...
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  • La Bête (play) (category Laurence Olivier Award–winning plays)
    Play (Baker) Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costumes Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design "James...
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  • Michael Blakemore (category Drama Desk Award winners)
    Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Musical – City of Angels 1997 – Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical – The Life 1997 – Drama Desk Award...
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  • Hayes Award for Outstanding Director (Big River, nominee) 2004 Tony Award Tony Honor for Excellence in Theatre (Big River, winner) 2004 Drama Desk Award for...
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  • James Hammerstein (category American theatre directors)
    nominated for the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revue for I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (as producer) and the 1990 Drama Desk Award for...
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  • Amy Herzog (category David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni)
    both of which earned her Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play nominations and wins for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Adaptation. Herzog's grandfather...
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  • Ulu Grosbard (category Drama Desk Award winners)
    and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for an off-Broadway revival of the Arthur Miller play, A View from the Bridge, for which Dustin...
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  • On Your Toes (category Tony Award–winning musicals)
    Award for Outstanding Choreography (nominee) Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical (winner) Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations...
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    Natasha Richardson (category Drama Desk Award winners)
    returned to Broadway in Closer, for which she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, and in 2005 Richardson appeared...
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