Nominations for the 88th Annual Drama League Awards were announced April 25 by Denée Benton and André De Shields at an event at the New York Library for the Performing Arts. The honors will be handed out May 20 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom.
The Drama League Awards are among the oldest theatrical honors in America, having been first presented in 1922 and subsequently formalized in 1935. The ceremony culminates in the presentation of the Distinguished Performance Award, which goes to one artist a year and can only be won once in an artist’s lifetime. Recent winners have included Glenda Jackson for Three Tall Women, Ben Platt for Dear Evan Hansen, and Lin-Manuel Miranda for Hamilton.
As previously announced, the League will honor The Music Man star Hugh Jackman, American Buffalo producer Willette Murphy Klausner, Mr. Saturday Night writer and star Billy Crystal, and The Skin of Our Teeth director Lileana Blain-Cruz as its 2022 Special Recognition Honorees at the ceremony.
See below for the full list of nominations.
DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE AWARD
Uzo Aduba, Clyde's
Simon Russell Beale, The Lehman Trilogy
Shoshana Bean, Mr. Saturday Night
Gabby Beans, The Skin of Our Teeth
Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo
Sharon D. Clarke, Caroline, or Change
Billy Crystal, Mr. Saturday Night
Matt Doyle, Company
Rachel Dratch, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive
Edie Falco, Morning Sun
Tyler Fauntleroy, Tambo & Bones
Beanie Feldstein, Funny Girl
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me Out
Sutton Foster, The Music Man
Myles Frost, MJ: The Musical
Adrianna Hicks, SIX
Marin Ireland, Morning Sun
Nikki M. James, SUFFS
Ron Cephas Jones, Clyde's
Joaquina Kalukango, Paradise Square
LaChanze, Trouble in Mind
L Morgan Lee, A Strange Loop
Jane Lynch, Funny Girl
Taylor Mac, The Hang
Brittney Mack, SIX
Ebony Marshall-Oliver, 7 Minutes
Elizabeth Marvel, Long Day's Journey Into Night
James McAvoy, Cyrano de Bergerac
Rob McClure, Mrs. Doubtfire
Kenita R. Miller, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Bonnie Milligan, Kimberly Akimbo
David Morse, How I Learned to Drive
Deirdre O'Connell, Dana H.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Plaza Suite
Phylicia Rashad, Skeleton Crew
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Lackawanna Blues
Arturo Luis Soria, Ni Mi Madre
Jaquel Spivey, A Strange Loop
Cecily Strong, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
Will Swenson, Assassins
Julie White, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive
Jesse Williams, Take Me Out
Michelle Wilson, Confederates
The League also acknowledges previous Distinguished Performance Award winners, ineligible to win the honor again, showing exemplary work in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions this season, including Hugh Jackman for The Music Man, Patti LuPone for Company, and Mary-Louise Parker for How I Learned to Drive.
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY
Clyde's
Confederates
Dana H.
English
Hangmen
The Lehman Trilogy
Merry Wives
The Minutes
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Prayer for the French Republic
Selling Kabul
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
American Buffalo
Cyrano de Bergerac
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
How I Learned to Drive
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Skeleton Crew
The Skin of Our Teeth
Take Me Out
Trouble in Mind
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL
David Byrne's American Utopia
The Hang
Kimberly Akimbo
MJ: The Musical
Mr. Saturday Night
Mrs. Doubtfire
Oratorio for Living Things
SIX
A Strange Loop
Suffs
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Assassins
Company
Caroline, or Change
Funny Girl
The Music Man
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Knud Adams, English
Saheem Ali, Merry Wives
Stori Ayers, Confederates
Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Matthew Dunster, Hangmen
Jamie Lloyd, Cyrano de Bergerac
Sam Mendes, The Lehman Trilogy
Tyne Rafaeli, Selling Kabul
Taylor Reynolds, Tambo & Bones
Les Waters, Dana H.
Kate Whoriskey, Clyde's
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
John Doyle, Assassins
Marianne Elliott, Company
Lee Sunday Evans, Oratorio for Living Things
Michael Mayer, Funny Girl
Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage, SIX
Leigh Silverman, Suffs
Niegel Smith, The Hang
Christopher Wheeldon, MJ: The Musical
Jerry Zaks, The Music Man
Original revival cast members Jonathan Groff and Tammy Blanchard in Little Shop of Horrors
