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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.
Contents
Award winners
1950s
- 1955: Jack Landau – The Clandestine Marriage / The White Devil
- 1956: José Quintero – The Iceman Cometh
- 1957: no award
- 1958: no award
- 1959: William Ball – Ivanov
1960s
- 1960: no award
- 1961: no award
- 1962: no award
- 1963: no award
- 1964: no award
- 1965: Ulu Grosbard – A View from the Bridge
- 1966: no award
- 1967: Joseph Hardy – You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- 1968
- Robert Moore – The Boys in the Band
- Tom O'Horgan – Tom Paine
- 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
1970s
- 1970
- Jerzy Grotowski – The Apocalypse
- Alan Arkin – The White House Murder Case
- Ron Field – Applause
- Joseph Hardy – Child's Play
- Harold Prince – Company
- 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
- 1972
- Mel Shapiro – Older People
- Andrei Şerban – Medea
- Peter Hall – Old Times
- Jeff Bleckner – Sticks and Bones
- A. J. Antoon – That Championship Season
- Mel Shapiro – Two Gentlemen of Verona
- 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
- 1974
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. http://www.ibdb.com/advSearchAwards.php. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
External links
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director (1955–1974) Jack Landau (1955) · José Quintero (1956) · William Ball (1959) · Ulu Grosbard (1965) · Joseph Hardy (1967) · Robert Moore / Tom O'Horgan (1968) · Tom O'Horgan / Neal Kenyon / Alan Arkin / Michael Schultz / Gordon Davidson / Edwin Sherin (1969) · Jerzy Grotowski / Alan Arkin / Ron Field / Joseph Hardy / Harold Prince (1970) · Robert Wilson / Andre Gregory / Peter Brook / Michael Bennett / Harold Prince / Tom O'Horgan / Paul Sills (1971) · Mel Shapiro / Andrei Serban / Peter Hall / Jeff Bleckner / A. J. Antoon / Mel Shapiro (1972) · Victor Garcia / Joseph Chaikin / Roberta Sklar / Harold Prince / Bob Fosse / Michael Rudman / Harold Prince (1973) · José Quintero / Harold Prince / Frank Dunlop / Marvin Felix Camillo / Harold Prince (1974)
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