The 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards nominations

Nominations for the 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced on Mon 3 May 2010 at The New York Friars Club by former Drama Desk Award winners Brian Stokes Mitchell (Kiss Me, Kate) and Cady Huffman (The Producers).

The winners of the 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards will be announced on 23 May 2010 at a ceremony held in the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center.

The annual awards honor excellence in theater for Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway during the season. Leading the slate of nominees are 'Ragtime' and 'The Scottsboro Boys,' which each received nine nominations each.

John Logan's' Red' was nominated in seven categories, receving the most nominations for any play - new of revival.

The winners of the Drama Desk Awards will be announced at the Awards ceremony to be held on the 17 May 2009 at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center.

The following awards were voted by the nominating committee and will be presented by the Drama Desk at its awards ceremony: Outstanding Ensemble Performances:
This year the nominators chose to bestow special ensemble awards for acting to the casts of two shows. Therefore, individual cast members for these shows were not eligible for acting awards in the competitive categories.

• Circle Mirror Transformation
• The Temperamentals

Outstanding Play:

• My Wonderful Day: Alan Ayckbourn
• Circle Mirror Transformation: Annie Baker,
• Happy Now?: Lucinda Coxon,
• Red: John Logan,
• Next Fall: Geoffrey Nauffts,
• Clybourne Park: Bruce Norris,

Outstanding Musical:

• American Idiot
• Everyday Rapture
• Memphis
• The Addams Family
• The Scottsboro Boys
• Yank!

Outstanding Revival of a Play:

• A View from the Bridge
• Brighton Beach Memoirs
• Fences
• Hamlet
• So Help Me God!
• The Boys in the Band

Outstanding Revival of a Musical:

• A Little Night Music
• Finian's Rainbow
• La Cage Aux Folles
• Promises, Promises
• Ragtime

Outstanding Actor in a Play:

• Bill Heck: The Orphans' Home Cycle
• Jude Law: Hamlet
• Alfred Molina: Red
• Eddie Redmayne: Red
• Liev Schreiber: A View from the Bridge
• John Douglas Thompson: Emperor Jones
• Christopher Walken: A Behanding in Spokane

Outstanding Actress in a Play:

• Ayesha Antoine: My Wonderful Day
• Melissa Errico: Candida
• Anne Hathaway: Twelfth Night
• Kristen Johnston: So Help Me God!
• Laura Linney: Time Stands Still
• Jan Maxwell: The Royal Family

Outstanding Actor in a Musical:

• Brandon Victor Dixon,: The Scottsboro Boys
• Douglas Hodge: La Cage Aux Folles
• Cheyenne Jackson: Finian's Rainbow
• Chad Kimball: Memphis
• Nathan Lane: The Addams Family
• Bobby Steggert: Yank!

Outstanding Actress in a Musical:

• Kate Baldwin: Finian's Rainbow
• Montego Glover: Memphis
• Jayne Houdyshell: Coraline
• Christiane Noll: Ragtime
• Sherie Rene Scott: Everyday Rapture
• Catherine Zeta-Jones: A Little Night Music

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play:

• Chris Chalk: Fences
• Sean Dugan: Next Fall
• Santino Fontana: Brighton Beach Memoirs
• Adam James: The Pride
• Hamish Linklater: Twelfth Night
• Nick Westrate: The Boys in the Band

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play:

• Victoria Clark: When the Rain Stops Falling
• Viola Davis: Fences
• Xanthe Elbrick: Candida
• Mary Beth Hurt: When the Rain Stops Falling
• Scarlett Johansson: A View from the Bridge
• Andrea Riseborough: The Pride

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical:

• Kevin Chamberlin: The Addams Family
• Robin De Jesus: La Cage Aux Folles
• Jeffry Denman: Yank!
• Christopher Fitzgerald: Finian's Rainbow
• Jeremy Morse: Bloodsong of Love
• Bobby Steggert: Ragtime

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical:

• Carolee Carmello: The Addams Family
• Carrie Cimma: Lizzie Borden
• Katie Finneran: Promises, Promises
• Angela Lansbury: A Little Night Music
• Kenita Miller: Langston in Harlem
• Terri White: Finian's Rainbow

Outstanding Director of a Play:

• Jonathan Bank: So Help Me God!
• Jack Cummings III: The Boys in the Band
• Sam Gold: Circle Mirror Transformation
• Michael Grandage: Hamlet
• Michael Grandage: Red
• Ethan Hawke: A Lie of the Mind

Outstanding Director of a Musical:

• Warren Carlyle: Finian's Rainbow
• Marcia Milgrom Dodge: Ragtime
• Igor Goldin: Yank!
• Terry Johnson: La Cage Aux Folles
• Michael Mayer: American Idiot
• Susan Stroman: The Scottsboro Boys

Outstanding Choreography:

• Warren Carlyle: Finian's Rainbow
• Marcia Milgrom Dodge: Ragtime
• Lynne Page: La Cage Aux Folles
• Susan Stroman: The Scottsboro Boys
• Twyla Tharp: Come Fly Away
• Sergio Trujillo: Memphis

Outstanding Music:

• David Bryan: Memphis
• Michael Friedman: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
• Joe Iconis: Bloodsong of Love
• John Kander & Fred Ebb: The Scottsboro Boys
• Andrew Lippa: The Addams Family
• Joseph Zellnik: Yank!

Outstanding Lyrics:

• Rick Crom: Newsical The Musical
• Kevin Del Aguila: Click, Clack, Moo
• John Kander & Fred Ebb: The Scottsboro Boys
• Dillie Keane and Adèle Anderson: Fascinating Aïda Absolutely Miraculous!
• Andrew Lippa: The Addams Family
• David Zellnik: Yank!

Outstanding Book of a Musical:

• Joe DiPietro: Memphis
• Joe Iconis: Bloodsong of Love
• Dick Scanlan & Sherie Rene Scott: Everyday Rapture
• David Thompson: The Scottsboro Boys
• Alex Timbers: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
• David Zellnik: Yank!

Outstanding Orchestrations:

• William David Brohn: Ragtime - Note this nomonation has been withdrawn
• Larry Hochman: The Scottsboro Boys
• Tom Kitt: American Idiot
• Tom Kitt: Everyday Rapture
• John Oddo: All About Me
• Daryl Waters & David Bryan: Memphis

Outstanding Musical Revue:

• Fascinating Aïda Absolutely Miraculous!
• Million Dollar Quartet
• Newsical The Musical
• Simon Green: Traveling Light
• Sondheim on Sondheim

Outstanding Music in a Play

• Adam Cochran: A Play on War
• Adam Cork: Red
• Gaines: A Lie of the Mind
• Philip Glass: The Bacchae
• Hem: Twelfth Night
• Branford Marsalis: Fences

Outstanding Set Design:

• Sandra Goldmark: The Boys in the Band
• Phelim McDermott, Julian Crouch & Basil Twist: The Addams Family
• Derek McLane: Ragtime
• Christopher Oram: Red
• Jay Rohloff: Underground
• Karen Tennent: Hansel and Gretel

Outstanding Costume Design:

• Antonia Ford-Roberts & Bob Flanagan: The Emperor Jones
• Santo Loquasto: Ragtime - Note this nomonation has been withdrawn
• Clint Ramos: So Help Me God!
• Bobby Frederick Tilley II: Lizzie Borden
• Matthew Wright: La Cage Aux Folles
• David Zinn: In the Next Room or the vibrator play

Outstanding Lighting Design:

• Neil Austin: Hamlet
• Neil Austin: Red
• Christian M. DeAngelis: Lizzie Borden
• Maruti Evans: John Ball's In the Heat of the Night
• Natasha Katz: The Addams Family
• Dane Laffrey: The Boys in the Band

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical:

• Acme Sound Partners: Ragtime
• Jonathan Deans: La Cage Aux Folles
• Ashley Hanson, Kurt Eric Fischer & Brian Ronan: Everyday Rapture
• Peter Hylenski: The Scottsboro Boys
• Scott Lehrer: Finian's Rainbow
• Brian Ronan: Promises, Promises

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play:

• Dan Bianchi & Wes Shippee: Frankenstein
• Dale Bigall: Underground
• Adam Cork: Enron
• Lindsay Jones: Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers
• Fitz Patton: When the Rain Stops Falling
• Elizabeth Rhodes: John Ball's In the Heat of the Night

Outstanding Solo Performance:

• Theodore Bikel: Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears
• Jim Brochu: Zero Hour
• Colman Domingo: A Boy and his Soul
• Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
• Judith Ivey: The Lady With All the Answers
• Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy

Unique Theatrical Experience: