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69th Drama Desk Awards
DateJune 1, 2025
VenueSkirball Center for the Performing Arts
Hosted byDebra Messing and Tituss Burgess
Most winsMaybe Happy Ending (6)
Most nominationsBoop! The Musical (11)
Websitedramadesks.com.
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The 69th Drama Desk Awards were held on June 1, 2025, at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, recognizing excellence in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions during the 2024–25 season. Nominations were announced on April 30, 2025, with Boop! The Musicalreceiving the most nominations with 11. Stranger Things: The First Shadow and The Picture of Dorian Gray were the most nominated play productions, receiving five nominations each.[1]

Maybe Happy Ending won the most awards of the evening, winning six including Outstanding Musical. Among the other big winners were Purpose, which won Outstanding Play, Eureka Day, which received Outstanding Revival of a Play and Gypsy, which won Outstanding Revival of a Musical.[2]

Winners and nominees

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The 69th Drama Desk Award nominations were announced on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, by Norm Lewis. The winners were announced on June 1, 2025, in an awards gala held at The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, hosted by Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess.

Category Winner and nominees[3][4]
Outstanding Play * Purpose by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Outstanding Musical *Maybe Happy Ending
Outstanding Revival of a Play *Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector
Outstanding Revival of a Musical *Gypsy
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play *Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California and Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play *Amalia Yoo, John Proctor is the Villain and Kara Young, Purpose
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical *Audra McDonald, Gypsy and Jasmine Amy Rogers, Boop! The Musical
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical (tie) *Brooks Ashmanskas, Smash, Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat and Michael Urie, Once Upon a Mattress
Outstanding Solo Performance *Andrew Scott, Vanya
  • David Greenspan, I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan
  • Ryan J. Haddad, Hold Me in the Water
  • Sam Kissajukian, 300 Paintings
  • Mark Povinelli, The Return of Benjamin Lay
Outstanding Direction of a Play *Danya Taymor, John Proctor is the Villain
Outstanding Direction of a Musical *Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending
Outstanding Choreography *Jerry Mitchell, Boop! The Musical
Outstanding Music *Will Aronson and Hue Park, Maybe Happy Ending
Outstanding Lyrics *Will Aronson and Hue Park, Maybe Happy Ending
Outstanding Book of a Musical *Will Aronson and Hue Park, Maybe Happy Ending
Outstanding Orchestrations *Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber, Just in Time
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play *Miriam Buether, Jamie Harrison and Chris Fisher, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical *Dane Laffrey and George Reeve, Maybe Happy Ending
Outstanding Costume Design of a Play *Dede Ayite, Our Town
Outstanding Costume Design of a Musical *Gregg Barnes, Boop! The Musical
Outstanding Lighting Design of a Play *Jon Clark, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical *Jack Knowles, Sunset Blvd.
Outstanding Sound Design of a Play *Paul Arditti, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
  • Johnny Gasper, Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods
  • Matt Otto, All of Me
  • Bray Poor, Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.
  • Clemence Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Fan Zhang, Good Bones
Outstanding Sound Design of a Musical *Peter Hylenski, Just in Time
Outstanding Projection and Video Design *David Bergman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Outstanding Wig and Hair *Charles G. LaPointe, Death Becomes Her
Outstanding Puppetry *Amanda Villalobos, Becoming Eve
  • Dorothy James, Bill’s 44th
  • Tom Lee, See What I Wanna See
  • Simple Mischief Studio, Small Acts of Daring Invention
  • Kirjan Waage, Dead as a Dodo
Outstanding Fight Choreography *Rick Sordelet and Christian Kelly-Sordelet, Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Outstanding Adaptation *Pirates! The Penzance Musical by Rupert Holmes
Outstanding Revue *Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song
Unique Theatrical Experience *The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Odd Man Out
  • The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux]
  • The Voices in Your Head
  • The Wind and the Rain: A story about Sunny’s Bar

Special awards

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Award Recipient[5][6]
Ensemble Award The cast of Liberation: Betsy Aidem, Audrey Corsa, Kayla Davion, Susannah Flood, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, Charlie Thurston, and Adina Verson
Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award Stephen Michael Spencer
Drama Desk Special Award Pregones/PRTT
Stacey Derosier
Danger and Opportunity

References

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  1. ^ Gans, Andrew (April 30, 2025). "'Boop!' leads 2025 Drama Desk Awards nominations". Broadway News. Retrieved May 3, 2026.
  2. ^ Culwell-Block, Logan (June 1, 2025). "Drama Desk Award Winners 2025: The Full List". Playbill. Retrieved May 3, 2026.
  3. ^ "2025 Awards – Nominees and Recipients". Drama Desk. Retrieved May 3, 2026.
  4. ^ Logan Culwell-Block (June 1, 2025). "Drama Desk Award Winners 2025: The Full List". Playbill. Retrieved May 3, 2026.
  5. ^ "2025 Awards – Nominees and Recipients". Drama Desk. Retrieved September 21, 2025.
  6. ^ Logan Culwell-Block (June 1, 2025). "Drama Desk Award Winners 2025: The Full List". Playbill. Retrieved May 3, 2026.
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