Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Actress in a Musical |
Location | United States |
Presented by | Drama Desk |
Currently held by | Joaquina Kalukango for Paradise Square (2022) |
Website | DramaDesk.org |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. The awards were established in 1955, with acting awards being given without making distinctions between roles in plays and musicals, or actors and actresses. The new award categories were later created in the 1975 ceremony.
Winners and nominees
1960s
Year | Actress | Musical | Character |
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1964 | |||
Imelda de Martin | The Amorous Flea | Agnes | |
1965–68 | |||
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1969 | |||
Dorothy Loudon | The Fig Leaves Are Falling | Lillian Stone | |
Bernadette Peters | Dames at Sea | Ruby |
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Year | Actress | Musical | Character |
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2020 | |||
Adrienne Warren | Tina: The Tina Turner Musical | Tina Turner | |
Tammy Blanchard | Little Shop of Horrors | Audrey | |
Beth Malone | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Molly Brown | |
Saycon Sengbloh | The Secret Life of Bees | Rosaleen | |
Elizabeth Stanley | Jagged Little Pill | Mary Jane "M.J." Healy | |
2021 | — | ||
2022 | |||
Joaquina Kalukango | Paradise Square | Nelly O'Brien | |
Kearstin Piper Brown | Intimate Apparel | Esther | |
Victoria Clark | Kimberly Akimbo | Kimberly | |
Sharon D. Clarke | Caroline, or Change | Caroline Thibodeaux | |
Jeanna de Waal | Diana | Princess Diana |
Multiple Winners
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Multiple nominees
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