Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play

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The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play was first awarded at the 1974–1975 Drama Desk Awards and has been awarded every year since. Before the 21st Drama Desk Awards, acting awards were given without making distinctions between roles in straight dramas as opposed to musicals, nor were there separate categories for actors and actresses.

Contents

1 Award winners and nominations
- 1.1 1970s
- 1.2 1980s
- 1.3 1990s
- 1.4 2000s
- 1.5 2010s
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Award winners and nominations

[edit] 1970s

1975: Ellen Burstyn – Same Time, Next Year
- Elizabeth Ashley – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Entire female cast – Women Behind Bars
- Tovah Feldshuh – Yentl the Yeshiva Boy
- Rita Moreno – The Ritz
- Diana Rigg – The Misanthrope
- Maggie Smith – Private Lives
- Liv Ullman – A Doll's House
1976: Rosemary Harris – The Royal Family
- Fran Brill – What Every Woman Knows
- Tovah Feldshuh – Yentl
- Lois Nettleton – They Knew What They Wanted
- Meryl Streep – 27 Wagons Full of Cotton / A Memory of Two Mondays / Secret Service / Trelawny of the "Wells"

1977: Irene Worth – The Cherry Orchard
- Trazana Beverley – For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
- Blythe Danner – The New York Idea
- Cara Duff-MacCormick – The Philanderer
- Diane Ladd – Lu Ann Hampton Laverly
- Sofia Landon – Peg O' My Heart
- Dorothy McGuire – The Night of the Iguana
1978: Jessica Tandy – The Gin Game
- Shirley Knight – Landscape of the Body
- Patricia Elliott – Tartuffe
- Tamy Grimes – Tartuffe
- Helen Burns – Catsplay
- Carol Mayo Jenkins – Zinnia
1979: Constance Cummings – Wings and Carole Shelley – The Elephant Man
- Kate Reid – Bosoms and Neglect
- Frances Sternhagen – On Golden Pond
- Susan Stevens – The Price of Genius

[edit] 1980s

1980: Pat Carroll – Gertrude Stein
- Blythe Danner – Betrayal
- Phyllis Frelich – Children of a Lesser God
- Mary Tyler Moore – Whose Life Is It Anyway?
- Gerald Hiken – Strider
- Susan Sarandon – A Coupla Chicks
1981: Joan Copeland – The American Clock
- Eva La Gallienne – To Grandmother's House We Go
- Mary Beth Hurt – Crimes of the Heart
- Amanda Plummer – A Taste of Honey
- Elizabeth Taylor – A Taste of Honey
1982: Zoe Caldwell – Medea
1983: Jessica Tandy – Foxfire
- Suzanne Bertish – Skirmishes
- Colleen Dewhurst – Queen and the Rebels
- Thuli Dumakude – Poppi Nongena
- Christine Estabrook – Win/Lose/Draw
- Susan Sarandon – Extremities
1984: Joan Allen – And a Nightingale Sang
- Rosemary Harris – Heartbreak House
- Kate Nelligan – A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Nausko Ohama – Sound and Beauty
- Marilyn Rockefellow – Open Admissions
- Irene Worth – The Golden Age
1985: Rosemary Harris – Pack of Lies
- Stockard Channing – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
- Roxanne Hart – Digby
- Lynn Redgrave– Aren't We All?
- Elizabeth Wilson – Salonika

1986: Lily Tomlin – The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
- Joan Allen – The Marriage of Bette and Boo
- Stockard Channing – House of Blue Leaves
- Judith Ivey – Precious Sons
- Swoosie Kurtz – House of Blue Leaves
- Kathryn Pogson – Aunt Dan and Lemon
1987: Linda Lavin – Broadway Bound
- Robin Bartlett – The Early Girl
- Lindsay Duncan – Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Dana Ivey – Driving Miss Daisy
- Amy Madigan – The Lucky Spot
- Dianne Wiest – Hunting Cockroaches
1988: Stockard Channing – Woman in Mind
- Kathy Bates – Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune
- Amy Irving – The Road to Mecca
- Glenda Jackson – Macbeth
- E. Katherine Kerr – Laughing Wild
- Gordana Rashovich – Shayna Maidel
1989: Pauline Collins – Shirley Valentine
- Joan Allen – The Heidi Chronicles
- Robin Bartlett – Reckless
- Colleen Dewhurst – Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Gloria Foster – The Forbidden City
- Nancy Marchand – The Cocktail Hour

[edit] 1990s

1990: Geraldine James – The Merchant of Venice
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – Twelfth Night
- S. Epatha Merkerson – The Piano Lesson
- Mary Louise Parker – Prelude to a Kiss
1991: Mercedes Ruehl – Lost in Yonkers
- Stockard Channing – Six Degrees of Separation
- Angela Goethals – The Good Times Are Killing Me
- Audra Lindley – About Time
1992: Laura Esterman – Marvin's Room
- Jane Alexander – The Visit
- Glenn Close – Death and the Maiden
- Deborah Hedwall – Sight Unseen
1993: Jane Alexander – The Sisters Rosensweig
- Juliana Carneiro da Cunha – Les Atrides
- Christine Lahti – Three Hotels
- Debra Monk – Redwood Curtain
- Natasha Richardson – Anna Christie
1994: Myra Carter – Three Tall Women
- Kathleen Chalfant – Angels in America: Perestroika
- Amy Irving – Broken Glass
- Diana Rigg – Medea
- Joan Rivers – Sally Marr...and Her Escorts
- Harriet Walter – Three Birds Alighting on a Field
1995: Cherry Jones – The Heiress
- Mary Alice – Having Our Say
- Stockard Channing – Hapgood
- Linda Lavin – Death Defying Acts
- Helen Mirren – A Month in the Country
- Mercedes Ruehl – The Rose Tattoo

1996: Zoe Caldwell – Master Class
- Catherine Byrne – Molly Sweeney
- Uta Hagen – Mrs. Klein
- Lisagay Hamilton – Valley Song
- Rosemary Harris – A Delicate Balance
- Sarah Jessica Parker – Sylvia
1997: Janet McTeer – A Doll's House
- Jayne Atkinson – The Skriker
- Frances Conroy – The Rehearsal
- Shirley Knight – The Young Man From Atlanta
- Vanessa Redgrave – Antony and Cleopatra
- Lia Williams – Skylight
1998: Cherry Jones – Pride's Crossing
- Edie Falco – Side Man
- Marie Mullen – The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- J. Smith-Cameron – As Bees in Honey Drown
- Frances Sternhagen – Long Day's Journey Into Night
1999: Kathleen Chalfant – Wit
- Judi Dench – Amy's View
- Lindsay Duncan – Ashes to Ashes
- Elizabeth Franz – Death of a Salesman
- Swoosie Kurtz – The Mineola Twins
- Zoë Wanamaker – Electra

[edit] 2000s

2000: Eileen Heckart – The Waverly Gallery
- Sinéad Cusack – Our Lady of Sligo
- Linda Lavin – The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
- Claudia Shear – Dirty Blonde
- Lynn Thigpen – Jar the Floor
- Charlyne Woodard – In the Blood
2001: Mary-Louise Parker – Proof
- Eileen Atkins – The Unexpected Man
- Janie Dee – Comic Potential
- Mary Beth Fisher – Boys Get Girl
- Marian Seldes – The Play About the Baby
- Lili Taylor – The Dead Eye Boy
2002: Lindsay Duncan – Private Lives
- Robin Bartlett – Everett Beekin
- Anna Paquin – The Glory of Living
- Sarah Jessica Parker – Wonder of the World
- Mercedes Ruehl – The Goat
- Meryl Streep – The Seagull
2003: Vanessa Redgrave – Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Jayne Atkinson – Enchanted April
- Marylouise Burke – Kimberly Akimbo
- Claire Higgins – Vincent in Brixton
- Dael Orlandersmith – Yellowman
- Fiona Shaw – Medea
2004: Viola Davis – Intimate Apparel / Phylicia Rashad – A Raisin in the Sun
- Eileen Atkins – The Retreat from Moscow
- Shannon Cochran – Bug
- Lizan Mitchell – Trojan Women
- Jeanie Smith Cameron – Sarah, Sarah

2005: Cherry Jones – Doubt: A Parable
- Veanne Cox – Last Easter
- Judy Kaye – Souvenir
- Laura Linney – Sight Unseen
- Frances Sternhagen – Echoes of the War
- Kathleen Turner – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2006: Lois Smith – The Trip to Bountiful
- Margaret Colin – Defiance
- Cherry Jones – Faith Healer
- Jennifer Jason Leigh – Abigail's Party
- Jan Maxwell – Entertaining Mr. Sloane
- Julie White – The Little Dog Laughed
2007: Eve Best – A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Orlagh Cassidy – The Field
- Blythe Danner – Suddenly Last Summer
- Jennifer Mudge – Dutchman
- Sandra Oh – Satellites
- Annie Parisse – The Internationalist
- Meryl Streep – Mother Courage and Her Children
2008: Deanna Dunagan – August: Osage County
- Sinéad Cusack – Rock ’n’ Roll
- Frances McDormand – The Country Girl
- Amy Morton – August: Osage County
- Fiona Shaw – Happy Days
- Julie White – From Up Here
2009: Janet McTeer – Mary Stuart
- Saidah Arrika Ekulona – Ruined
- Jane Fonda – 33 Variations
- Marcia Gay Harden – God of Carnage
- Elizabeth Marvel – Fifty Words
- Jan Maxwell – Scenes From an Execution

[edit] 2010s

2010: Jan Maxwell – The Royal Family
- Ayesha Antoine – My Wonderful Day
- Melissa Errico – Candida
- Anne Hathaway – Twelfth Night
- Kristen Johnston – So Help Me God!
- Laura Linney – Time Stands Still

2011: Frances McDormand – Good People
- Nina Arianda – Born Yesterday
- Stockard Channing – Other Desert Cities
- Laurie Metcalf – The Other Place
- Michele Pawk – A Small Fire
- Lily Rabe – The Merchant of Venice

[edit] See also

[edit] References

"Drama Desk Award for Actress in a Play". Internet Broadway Database. 2008. http://www.ibdb.com/advSearchAwards.php. Retrieved 2008-08-21.

[edit] External links

Drama Desk official website

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play

1975–2000

Ellen Burstyn (1975)
Rosemary Harris (1976)
Irene Worth (1977)
Jessica Tandy (1978)
Constance Cummings / Carole Shelley (1979)
Pat Carroll (1980)
Joan Copeland (1981)
Zoe Caldwell (1982)
Jessica Tandy (1983)
Joan Allen (1984)
Rosemary Harris (1985)
Lily Tomlin (1986)
Linda Lavin (1987)
Stockard Channing (1988)
Pauline Collins (1989)
Geraldine James (1990)
Mercedes Ruehl (1991)
Laura Esterman (1992)
Jane Alexander (1993)
Myra Carter (1994)
Cherry Jones (1995)
Zoe Caldwell (1996)
Janet McTeer (1997)
Cherry Jones (1998)
Kathleen Chalfant (1999)
Eileen Heckart (2000)

2001–present

v t e Drama Desk Awards

Play	Play Revival of a Play Actor in a Play Actress in a Play Featured Actor in a Play Featured Actress in a Play Director of a Play Music in a Play

Musical	Musical Revival of a Musical Actor in a Musical Actress in a Musical Featured Actor in a Musical Featured Actress in a Musical Director of a Musical Music Lyrics Book Orchestrations

Production	Director Choreography Set Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Revival Revue One-Person Show Special Award Unique Theatrical Experience

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