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2014 Awards

The Winners of the 2014 Drama Desk Awards

Outstanding Play
Robert Schenkkan, All the Way

Outstanding Musical
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Revival of a Play
Twelfth Night

Outstanding Revival of a Musical or Revue
Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Outstanding Actor in a Play
Bryan Cranston, All the Way

Outstanding Actress in a Play
Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

Outstanding Actor in a Musical (tie)
Neal Patrick Harris Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Jessie Mueller, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Reed Birney, Casa Valentina

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Celia Keenan-Bolger, The Glass Menagerie 

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
James Monroe Iglehart, Aladdin

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (tie)
Anika Larsen, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Lauren Worsham, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Director of a Play
Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night

Outstanding Director of a Musical
Darko Tresnjak, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Choreography
Warren Carlyle, After Midnight

Outstanding Music
Jason Robert Brown, The Bridges of Madison County

Outstanding Lyrics
Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder 

Outstanding Book of a Musical
Robert L. Freedman, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Orchestrations
Jason Robert Brown, The Bridges of Madison County

Outstanding Music in a Play
Nico Muhly, The Glass Menagerie

Outstanding Revue
After Midnight 

Outstanding Set Design
Christopher Barreca, Rocky

Outstanding Costume Design
William Ivey Long, Bullets Over Broadway

Outstanding Lighting Design
Christopher Akerlind, Rocky

Outstanding Projection Design
Aaron Rhyne, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder 

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical
Brian Ronan, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play
Matt Tierney, Machinal

Outstanding Solo Performance
John Douglas Thompson, Satchmo at the Waldorf

Unique Theatrical Experience
Cirkopolis

Productions with Multiple Wins
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder – 7
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical – 3
Twelfth Night – 2
After Midnight – 2
All the Way – 2
The Bridges of Madison County – 2
The Glass Menagerie – 2
Hedwig and the Angry Inch – 2
Rocky – 2