This Year's Drama Desk Award Nominees Meet the Press

Nominees for the 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards celebrated their honors at this year's meet-the-press reception on May 9 at Friedman's at the Edison. Check out TheaterMania's photos in the gallery below.

The Drama Desk Awards, which are presented annually, honor outstanding achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway. The awards are voted on by theater critics, journalists, editors, and publishers covering theater.

The 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony will be held at Town Hall on Sunday, June 3, and will be hosted by Michael Urie, who won a 2013 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance in Buyer & Cellar as well as a joint 2010 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance for the play The Temperamentals.

For the list of nominees, click here.