Please join us for the
91st Annual Drama League Awards at The Ziegfeld Ballroom on Friday, May 16, 2025
Hosted by
Frank DiLella
Honorees
Kate Navin and Audible Theater
Contribution to the Theater Award
Lea Salonga
Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater
Photo Credit: Raymund Isaac
Whitney White
Founders Award for Excellence in Directing
Photo Credit: Mecca McDonald
for By Pedestal
Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron
Gratitude Award
NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT
Tune in to our 91st Annual Drama League Awards Nominations Announcement on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 11am on BroadwayWorld.com!
Co-Hosted By
Sarah Hyland & Orville Peck
Photo Credit: Araya Doheny
Photo Credit: Sam Ramirez
Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees!
Thank you to our Nominations Announcement Co-Hosts Vanessa Williams and Bebe Neuwirth.
Miss the announcement? Watch the reading of the nominees HERE!
Photo Credit: Catalin Media
Drama League Awards winners are determined by Drama League Members. Become a Member by April 15, 2025 to vote on the 2025 Drama League Awards.
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NOMINEES & WINNERS
Signature Theatre
The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Eric Ting
Produced by Signature Theatre (Paige Evans, Artistic Director; Timothy J. McClimon, Executive Director)
Lincoln Center Theater
Written by Candrice Jones
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (André Bishop, Producing Artistic Director; Adam Siegel, Managing Director; Naomi Grabel, Executive Director of Development and Planning)
Clubbed Thumb
Written by Liza Birkenmeier
Directed by Tara Ahmadinejad
Produced by Clubbed Thumb (Maria Striar, Artistic Director and Founder; Michael Bulger, Producing Director) in partnership with New Georges (Susan Bernfield, Artistic Director); presented at The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director)
St. Ann’s Warehouse
Written by Thomas Vinterberg & Tobias Lindholm
Adapted by David Farr
Directed by Rupert Goold
Produced by the Almeida Theatre (Rupert Goold, Artistic Director; Denise Wood, Executive Director), presented by St. Ann’s Warehouse (Susan Feldman, Artistic Director; Lianna Portnoy, Managing Director; Erik Wallin, General Manager)
Manhattan Theatre Club
Written by Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by Whitney White
Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Chris Jennings, Executive Director) and Madison Wells Live, with LaChanze & Taraji P. Henson
Second Stage Theater
Written by Paula Vogel
Directed by Tina Landau
Produced by Second Stage Theater (Carole Rothman, President and Artistic Director; Lisa Lawer Post, Executive Director) in association with Salman and Vienn Al-Rashid, Courtney Lederer and Mark Thierfelder, Jerry and Roz Meyer, Alix L.L. Ritchie and Jayne Baron Sherman
Lucille Lortel Theatre
Written by Cole Escola
Directed by Sam Pinkleton
Produced by Kevin McCollum, Lucas McMahon, Mike Lavoie and Carlee Briglia by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Theatre
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Written by Peter Morgan
Directed by Rupert Goold
Produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, NETFLIX, Nederlander Presentations Inc., Richard Winkler, Stephanie P. McClelland, Ted Snowdon, Jamie deRoy/Ken & Rande Greiner, Richard D. Batchelder Jr., The Almeida Theatre
PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
Manhattan Theatre Club
Written by Joshua Harmon
Directed by David Cromer
Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Chris Jennings, Executive Director)
STEREOPHONIC (WINNER)
John Golden Theatre/Playwrights Horizons
Written by David Adjmi
Directed by Daniel Aukin
Produced by Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Seaview, Sonia Friedman Productions, Linden Productions, Ashley Melone, Nick Mills; Co-Produced by Jillian Robbins, Stella La Rue, Alex Levy & David Aron, Dori Berinstein, James Bolosh, Burnt Umber Productions, The Cohn Sisters, Cathy Dantchik, Alexander R. Donnelly, Emerald Drive, Federman Koenigsberg, Dann Fink, Ruth Hendel, Larry Hirschhorn, Jenen Rubin, John Gore Organization, Willette & Manny Klausner, LAMF Protozoa, Katrina McCann, Stephanie P. McClelland, No Guarantees, Marissa Palley & Daniel Aron, Anna Schafer, Soto Namoff Productions, Sean Walsh, Bruce & Peggy Wanta, Hillary Wyatt, deRoy Howard, Winkler & Smalberg, 42nd.CLUB, Craig Balsam, Concord Theatricals, Creative Partners Productions, Jonathan Demar, Douglas Denoff, DJD Productions, Echo Lake Entertainment, Faliro House, FilmNation Entertainment, Roy Gabay, GFour Productions, Candy Kosow Gold, Wes Grantom, Rachel Bendit & Mark Bernstein; and Playwrights Horizons (Adam Greenfield, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director; Carol Fishman, General Manager); Associate Producer: Zachary Baer
Playwrights Horizons/MCC Theater
Written by John J. Caswell, Jr.
Directed by Dustin Wills
Produced by Playwrights Horizons (Adam Greenfield, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director; Carol Fishman, General Manager) and MCC Theater (Bernie Telsey and Will Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director)
Keeping in the tradition of honoring the outstanding accomplishments of the theatrical community, as they have since 1935, The Drama League Awards will be bestowed in the following competitive categories:
- Distinguished Performance Award
- Outstanding Direction of a Play
- Outstanding Direction of a Musical
- Outstanding Production of a Play
- Outstanding Production of a Musical
- Outstanding Revival of a Play
- Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Broadway and Off-Broadway (non-virtual only) productions eligible for the 2025 Drama League Awards must be in preview performances between April 21, 2024, and April 20, 2025 (inclusive of evening performances).
HONORARY HOST COMMITTEE
Sutton Foster
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Patti LuPone
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PATTI LuPONE is a three-time Tony Award winner for her performances in Evita, Gypsy, and Company. Her NY stage credits include: The Roommate, War Paint (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations) Shows for Days; The Seven Deadly Sins ( NY City Ballet); Company (NY Philharmonic); Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations); Noises Off; The Old Neighborhood; Master Class; Anything Goes (Tony nomination., Drama Desk Award); Oliver!; Accidental Death of An Anarchist; The Water Engine; and The Robber Bridegroom (Tony and Drama Desk nominations). Film credits include: Beau is Afraid, The School for Good and Evil (Netflix), Last Christmas, The Comedian, Parker, Union Square, Driving Miss Daisy, Witness. TV/Streaming: “And Just Like That” (upcoming), Marvel’s “Agatha All Along” (Independent Spirit and Critics Choice Award nominations), “Hollywood,” “Pose,” “Mom,” “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “Penny Dreadful” (Critics Choice Award nomination), “Girls,” “American Horror Story: Coven and NYC,” “30 Rock,” and four seasons as Libby Thatcher on ABC’s “Life Goes On.” She is a founding member of both the Drama Division of The Juilliard School and John Houseman’s The Acting Company and the author of the NY Times best-seller Patti LuPone: A Memoir.
Audra McDonald
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Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy, in 2015 she received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. She won Tonys for her performances in Carousel, Master Class, Ragtime, A Raisin in the Sun, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, which also served as the vehicle for her Olivier-nominated 2017 West End debut. On television, McDonald won an Emmy as the official host of PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center, and is known for recurring roles on Private Practice (ABC), The Good Wife (CBS), The Good Fight (Paramount+), and The Gilded Age (HBO). Her film credits include Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast and MGM’s 2021 Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect. A Juilliard-trained soprano, McDonald maintains a major career as a Grammy-winning recording and concert artist. Her latest solo album, Sing Happy, was recorded live with the New York Philharmonic for Decca Gold. She is a founding member of Black Theatre United, board member of Covenant House International, and prominent advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights, whose favorite roles are those performed offstage, as an activist, wife to actor Will Swenson, and mother to her amazing children.
Lance Roberts
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Lance has been in the original Broadway companies of the Music Man with Hugh Jackman, The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway, Sister Act, Ghost, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Scarlett Johansson , Moss Hart’s Act One, Finding Neverland, Sunset Boulevard with Glenn Close, My Fair Lady, I Need That with Danny DeVito and is currently featured in Just in Time, as well as over 150 productions around the world. He’s been in 8 films, including This Is Where I Leave You and I am Michael. On TV, Pokerface, Blacklist, Mrs. Maisel, The Best Man, Love Life, Pose, Most Wanted: FBI, Good Fight, and reruns of Law & Order, Nurse Jackie, Elementary, White Collar, the Affair, Will and Grace, Girlfriends, Knots Landing, The Colby’s and Drew Carey. He costars in the short film , The Entertainer with Andre DeShields coming out later in 2025. More info on imdb.com/lanceroberts
STEERING COMMITTEE
Bonnie Comley, Awards Co-Chair
Darin Oduyoye, Awards Co-Chair
- Trish Chambers
- Irene Gandy
- Sarah Hutton
- Mary Jain
- Paula Kaminsky Davis
- Fred Siegel
- Kumiko Yoshii
*In Formation
THANK YOU TO OUR EVENT SPONSORS
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS
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