- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
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The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play is presented by the Drama Desk, a committee of New York City theatre critics, writers, and editors. It honors performances by actors in supporting roles in productions staged on Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, and for legitimate not-for-profit theaters.
It was not until the 21st Annual Drama Desk Awards in 1975 that a specific category for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play was created. That year's recipient was Frank Langella in Seascape, who won over Louis Beachner in The National Health, Larry Blyden in Absurd Person Singular, David Dukes in Love for Love and Rules of the Game, Philip Locke in Sherlock Holmes, and Richard Williams in Black Picture Show.
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Additional winners and nominees
1970s
- 1976: Judd Hirsch – Knock Knock
- Leonard Cimino – A Memory of Two Mondays
- Edward Herrmann – Mrs. Warren's Profession
- Roy Poole – A Memory of Two Mondays
- 1977: Bob Dishy – Sly Fox
- Anthony Call – The Trip Back Down
- Hector Elizondo – Sly Fox
- Michael Lombard – Otherwise Engaged
- Everett McGill – Lu Ann Hampton Laverly
- Ralph Roberts – The Oldest Living Graduate
- 1978: Jeffrey DeMunn – A Prayer for My Daughter
- Visili Bogazianos – P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
- Jerome Dempsey – Dracula
- George Dzundza – A Prayer for My Daughter
- Morgan Freeman – The Mighty Gents
- Michael Higgins – Molly
- Lester Rawlins – Da
- 1979: George Rose – The Kingfisher
- Michael Gough – Bedroom Farce
- I.M. Hobson – The Elephant Man
- Nicholas Woodeson – Man and Superman
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
- 2010: Santino Fontana – Brighton Beach Memoirs
- Chris Chalk – Fences
- Sean Dugan – Next Fall
- Adam James – The Pride
- Hamish Linklater – Twelfth Night
- Nick Westrate – The Boys in the Band
- 2011: Brian Bedford – The Importance of Being Earnest
- Christian Borle – Peter and the Starcatcher
- Boyd Gaines – The Grand Manner
- Logan Marshall-Green – The Hallway Trilogy
- Zachary Quinto – Angels in America
- Tom Riley – Arcadia
- Yul Vázquez – The Motherfucker With the Hat
External links
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play 1975–2000 Frank Langella (1975) · Judd Hirsch (1976) · Bob Dishy (1977) · Jeffrey DeMunn (1978) · George Rose (1979) · David Rounds (1980) · Brian Backer (1981) · Željko Ivanek / Adolph Caesar (1982) · Alan Feinstein (1983) · John Malkovich (1984) · Barry Miller / Charles S. Dutton (1985) · Joseph Maher (1986) · John Randolph (1987) · B. D. Wong (1988) · Peter Frechette (1989) · Charles Durning (1990) · Kevin Spacey (1991) · Laurence Fishburne (1992) · Joe Mantello / Stephen Spinella (1993) · Jeffrey Wright (1994) · Nathan Lane (1995) · Martin Shaw (1996) · Brian Doyle-Murray (1997) · Alfred Molina (1998) · Kevin Anderson (1999) · Roy Dotrice (2000)
2001–present Charles Brown (2001) · Frank Langella (2002) · Denis O'Hare (2003) · Ned Beatty (2004) · Michael Stuhlbarg (2005) · Samuel Barnett (2006) · Boyd Gaines (2007) · Conleth Hill (2008) · Pablo Schreiber (2009) · Santino Fontana (2010) · Brian Bedford (2011)
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Musical Production Categories:- Drama Desk Awards
- 1976: Judd Hirsch – Knock Knock
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