2023 Drama League Award Nominees Announced

The 2023 Drama League Award nominees were announced this morning in an event hosted by Roger Bart and Justin Guarini at the New York Library for the Performing Arts. The announcement kicks off a month of celebrations that will culminate in the 89th Annual Drama League Awards, which will be held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on Friday, May 19, at noon.

Read below for the list of nominees.

Outstanding Production of a Play
The Bandaged Place
Cost of Living
Dark Disabled Stories
Downstate
Elyria
Fat Ham
Good Night, Oscar
Leopoldstadt
Life of Pi
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Prima Facie
Public Obscenities
Summer, 1976

Outstanding Revival of a Play
A Doll’s House
Ohio State Murders
Hamlet/Oresteia
The Piano Lesson
A Raisin in the Sun
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
The Thanksgiving Play
Topdog/Underdog
Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White
Wolf Play

Outstanding Production of a Musical
& Juliet
A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical
Dreaming Zenzile
New York, New York
Shucked
Some Like It Hot
Titanique
White Girl in Danger
Wise Children’s Wuthering Heights

Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Bob Fosse’s Dancin’
Camelot
Into the Woods
A Man of No Importance
Parade
1776
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Outstanding Direction of a Play
Jo Bonney, Cost of Living
Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Public Obscenities
Anne Kauffman, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
Kenny Leon, Topdog/Underdog
Jamie Lloyd, A Doll’s House
David Mendizábal, The Bandaged Place
Awoye Timpo, Elyria and Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White
Dustin Wills, Wolf Play

Outstanding Direction of a Musical
Lileana Blain-Cruz, Dreaming Zenzile and White Girl In Danger
Lear DeBessonet, Into the Woods
Thomas Kail, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Casey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot
Jack O’Brien, Shucked
Bartlett Sher, Camelot
Susan Stroman, New York, New York

Nominees for the Distinguished Performance Award
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Topdog/Underdog
Hiran Abeysekera, Life of Pi
Annaleigh Ashford, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sara Bareilles, Into the Woods
Stephanie Berry, The Bandaged Place
Brittany Bradford, Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story In Black And White
Danielle Brooks, The Piano Lesson
Rachel Brosnahan, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
Marylouise Burke, Epiphany
D’Arcy Carden, The Thanksgiving Play
Jessica Chastain, A Doll’s House
Sharon D. Clarke, Death of a Salesman
Jodie Comer, Prima Facie
Jordan E. Cooper, Ain’t No Mo’
Lorna Courtney, & Juliet
Micaela Diamond, Parade
K. Todd Freeman, Downstate
J. Harrison Ghee, Some Like It Hot
Josh Groban, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Ryan J. Haddad, Dark Disabled Stories
Corey Hawkins, Topdog/Underdog
Sean Hayes, Good Night, Oscar
Stephen McKinley Henderson, Between Riverside and Crazy
Oscar Isaac, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
Tarra Conner Jones, White Girl in Danger
Esco Jouléy, Wolf Play
Somi Kakoma, Dreaming Zenzile
David Krumholtz, Leopoldstadt
Linda Lavin, You Will Get Sick
Laura Linney, Summer, 1976
Jefferson Mays, A Christmas Carol
Patina Miller, Into the Woods
Marla Mindelle, Titanique
Arian Moayed, A Doll’s House
Gargi Mukherjee, Public Obscenities
Alex Newell, Shucked
Jeremy Pope, The Collaboration
Colton Ryan, New York, New York
Phillipa Soo, Camelot
Marcel Spears, Fat Ham
Katy Sullivan, Cost of Living
Will Swenson, A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical
John Douglas Thompson, Endgame
Anna Uzele, New York, New York
John David Washington, The Piano Lesson
Betsy Wolfe, & Juliet
David Zayas, Cost of Living

The Drama League additionally acknowledges the work of the following past recipients of the Distinguished Performance Award (which can only be won once in a performer’s lifetime):
Danny Burstein, Pictures From Home
Norbert Leo Butz, Cornelia Street
Kathleen Chalfant, The Year of Magical Thinking
Neil Patrick Harris, Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Nathan Lane, Pictures From Home
Audra McDonald, Ohio State Murders
Bebe Neuwirth, The Bedwetter
Ben Platt, Parade

As previously announced, the Drama League will also present Special Recognition Awards to André De Shields (Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater), Lear deBessonet (Founders Award for Excellence in Directing), the Drama Book Shop (Contribution to the Theater), and Darin Oduyoye (The Gratitude Award).

Kimberly Akimbo was considered last season for its off-Broadway run, prior to the Broadway transfer.