Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | Drama Desk |
| Currently held by | Michael Shannon for Long Day's Journey into Night (2016) |
| Official website | DramaDesk.org |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. The awards were established in 1955, with acting awards being given without making distinctions between roles in plays and musicals, or actors and actresses. The new award categories were later created in the 1975 ceremony.
† - indicates the performance won the Tony Award
‡ - indicates the performance was also nominated for the Tony Award
§- indicates the performance was "nominated" for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play
Winners and nominees
1970s
| Year | Actor | Play | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | |||
| Frank Langella | Seascape | Leslie † | |
| Louis Beachner | The National Health | Flagg | |
| Larry Blyden | Absurd Person Singular | Sidney ‡ | |
| David Dukes | Love for Love | Scandal | |
| Rules of the Game | Guido Venanzi | ||
| Philip Locke | Sherlock Holmes | Professor Moriarty ‡ | |
| Dick Anthony Williams | Black Picture Show | Alexander ‡ | |
| 1976 | |||
| Judd Hirsch | Knock Knock | Various Characters | |
| Leonard Cimino | A Memory of Two Mondays | Jim | |
| Edward Herrmann | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Frank Gardner † | |
| Roy Poole | A Memory of Two Mondays | Gus | |
| 1977 | |||
| Bob Dishy | Sly Fox | Abner Truckle ‡ | |
| Anthony Call | The Trip Back Down | Super Joe Weller | |
| Héctor Elizondo | Sly Fox | Simon Able | |
| Michael Lombard | Otherwise Engaged | Artemy Zemlyanik | |
| Everett McGill | Lu Ann Hampton Laverly Oberlander | Dale Laverty | |
| Ralph Roberts | The Oldest Living Graduate | Mike Tremaine | |
| 1978 | |||
| Jeffrey DeMunn | A Prayer for My Daughter | Jack Delasante | |
| Visili Bogazianos | P.S. Your Cat Is Dead | Vrro | |
| Jerome Dempsey | Dracula | Abraham Van Helsing | |
| George Dzundza | A Prayer for My Daughter | Kelly | |
| Morgan Freeman | The Mighty Gents | Zeke ‡ | |
| Michael Higgins | Molly | Performer | |
| Lester Rawlins | Da | Drumm † | |
| 1979 | |||
| George Rose | The Kingfisher | Hawkins | |
| Michael Gough | Bedroom Farce | Ernest † | |
| I.M. Hobson | The Elephant Man | Various Characters | |
| Nicholas Woodeson | Man and Superman | Henry Straker |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
| Year | Actor | Play | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | |||
| Santino Fontana | Brighton Beach Memoirs | Stanley Jerome | |
| Chris Chalk | Fences | Corey | |
| Sean Dugan | Next Fall | Brandon | |
| Adam James | The Pride | The Man / Peter / The Doctor | |
| Hamish Linklater | Twelfth Night | Sir Andrew Aguecheek | |
| Nick Westrate | The Boys in the Band | Donald | |
| 2011 | |||
| Brian Bedford | The Importance of Being Earnest | Lady Bracknell§ | |
| Christian Borle | Peter and the Starcatcher | Black Stache † | |
| Boyd Gaines | The Grand Manner | Guthrie McClintic | |
| Logan Marshall-Green | The Hallway Trilogy | Lloyd Boyd | |
| Zachary Quinto | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Louis Ironson | |
| Tom Riley | Arcadia | Septimus Hodge | |
| Yul Vázquez | The Motherf**ker with the Hat | Cousin Julio ‡ | |
| 2012 | |||
| Tom Edden | One Man, Two Guvnors | Alfie ‡ | |
| Bill Camp | Death of a Salesman | Charley | |
| Jim Dale | The Road to Mecca | Marius Byleveld | |
| Bill Irwin | King Lear | Lear's Fool | |
| Jefferson Mays | Blood and Gifts | Simon Craig | |
| Will Rogers | Unnatural Acts | Joseph Lumbard | |
| Morgan Spector | Russian Transport | Boris | |
| 2013 | |||
| Richard Kind | The Big Knife | Marcus Hoff ‡ | |
| Chuck Cooper | The Piano Lesson | Wining Boy | |
| Peter Friedman | The Great God Pan | Doug | |
| Aaron Clifton Moten | The Flick | Avery | |
| Brían F. O'Byrne | If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet | George | |
| Tony Shalhoub | Golden Boy | Mr. Bonaparte ‡ | |
| 2014 | |||
| Reed Birney | Casa Valentina | Charlotte ‡ | |
| Chuck Cooper | Choir Boy | Headmaster Marrow | |
| Peter Maloney | Outside Mullingar | Tony Reilly | |
| Bobby Moreno | Year of the Rooster | Odysseus Rex | |
| Bill Pullman | The Jacksonian | Fred | |
| Brian J. Smith | The Glass Menagerie | Jim O'Connor ‡ | |
| 2015 | |||
| K. Todd Freeman | Airline Highway | Sissy Na Na ‡ | |
| F. Murray Abraham | It's Only a Play | Ira Drew | |
| Reed Birney | You Got Older | Father | |
| Jonathan Hadary | Rocket to the Moon | Mr. Prince | |
| Jason Butler Harner | The Village Bike | John | |
| Jonathan Hogan | Pocatello | Cole | |
| José Joaquín Pérez | My Mañana Comes | Jorge | |
| 2016 | |||
| Michael Shannon | Long Day's Journey into Night | James Tyrone Jr. ‡ | |
| Bill Camp | The Crucible | Reverend John Hale ‡ | |
| David Furr | Noises Off | Gary Lejeune ‡ | |
| Matt McGrath | The Legend of Georgia McBride | Tracy Mills | |
| Richard Thomas | Incident At Vichy | Von Berg |
See also
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
References
- "Drama Desk Award for Featured Actor in a Play". Internet Broadway Database. 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
External links
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