Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director

This is a list of winners of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director introduced in 1955 to honour directors of plays and directors of musicals. From 1968, multiple awards were presented for each season. In 1975 the category was retired and divided into Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical, with each discipline receiving its own.

Award winners

1950s

1955: Jack Landau – The Clandestine Marriage / The White Devil No nominees 1956: José Quintero – The Iceman Cometh No nominees

1959: William Ball – Ivanov No nominees

1960s

1965: Ulu Grosbard – A View from the Bridge No nominees 1967: Joseph Hardy – You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown No nominees 1968: Robert Moore – The Boys in the Band and Tom O'Horgan – Tom Paine No nominees

1969: Tom O'Horgan – Futz Neal Kenyon – Dames at Sea Alan Arkin – Little Murders Michael Schultz – Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? Gordon Davidson – In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer Edwin Sherin – The Great White Hope No nominees

1970s

1970: Jerzy Grotowski – The Apocalypse Alan Arkin – The White House Murder Case Ron Field – Applause Joseph Hardy – Child's Play Harold Prince – Company No nominees 1971: Robert Wilson – Deafman Glance Andre Gregory – Alice in Wonderland Peter Brook – A Midsummer Night's Dream Michael Bennett – Follies Harold Prince – Follies Tom O'Horgan – Lenny Paul Sills – Ovid's Metamorphoses and Paul Sills' Story Theatre No nominees 1972: Mel Shapiro – Older People Andrei Șerban – Medea Peter Hall – Old Times Jeff Bleckner – Sticks and Bones A. J. Antoon – That Championship Season Mel Shapiro – Two Gentlemen of Verona No nominees

1973: Victor Garcia – Yerma Joseph Chaikin – The Mutation Show Roberta Sklar – The Mutation Show Harold Prince – A Little Night Music Bob Fosse – Pippin Michael Rudman – The Changing Room Harold Prince – The Great God Brown No nominees 1974: José Quintero – A Moon for the Misbegotten Harold Prince – Candide Frank Dunlop – Scapino Marvin Felix Camillo – Short Eyes Harold Prince – The Visit No nominees

See also

• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical

References

• "Drama Desk Award for Director (Drama Desk)". Internet Broadway Database. 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-21.

External links

• Drama Desk official website