Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance
| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Solo Performance |
| Location | United States |
| Country | United States of America |
| Presented by | Drama Desk |
| Currently held by | Jesse Tyler Ferguson for Fully Committed (2016) |
| Official website | DramaDesk.org |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance 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 category was first presented at the 1984 ceremony, when it was known as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show. The award has been known by its current name since 1999.
Winners and nominees
1980s
| Year | Performer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | ||
| Ian McKellen | Acting Shakespeare | |
| Phillip Baker Hall | Secret Honor | |
| Kaye Ballard | Hey, Ma...Kaye Ballard | |
| Edward Duke | Jeeves Takes Charge | |
| Estelle Parsons | Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo | |
| Billie Whitelaw | Rockaby | |
| 1985 | ||
| Whoopi Goldberg | Whoopi Goldberg | |
| Avner Eisenberg | Avner the Eccentric | |
| Spalding Gray | Swimming to Cambodia | |
| Alec McCowen | Kipling | |
| Ekkehard Schall | An Evening with Ekkehard Schall | |
| Lori Wilner | Hannah Senesh | |
| 1986 | ||
| Eric Bogosian | Drinking in America | |
| Elisabeth Welch | Time to Start Living | |
| 1987 | ||
| Barbara Cook | A Concert for the Theatre | |
| 1988–89 | N/A | |
1990s
| Year | Performer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | ||
| Robert Morse | Tru | |
| Eric Bogosian | Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll | |
| Kathryn Grody | A Mom's Life | |
| Mandy Patinkin | Mandy Patinkin in Concert: "Dress Casual" | |
| 1991 | ||
| Eileen Atkins | A Room of One's Own | |
| Jeffrey Essmann | Artificial Reality | |
| Spalding Gray | Monster in a Box | |
| Tracey Ullman | The Big Love | |
| 1992 | ||
| Patrick Stewart | A Christmas Carol | |
| Stan Freeman | At Wit's End | |
| Kevin Kling | Home and Away | |
| Josh Kornbluth | Red Diaper Baby | |
| 1993 | ||
| Anna Deavere Smith | Fires in the Mirror | |
| John Leguizamo | Spic-O-Rama | |
| Lynn Redgrave | Shakespeare for My Father | |
| Ron Vawler | Roy Cohn/Jack Smith | |
| 1994 | ||
| Anna Deavere Smith | Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 | |
| Eric Bogosian | Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead | |
| Sherry Glaser | Family Secrets | |
| Spalding Gray | Gray's Anatomy | |
| Claudia Shear | Blown Sideways Through Life | |
| 1995 | ||
| James Lecesne | Word of Mouth | |
| Dan Butler | The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me | |
| Danny Hoch | Some People | |
| Avi Hoffman | Too Jewish? | |
| Lisa Kron | 101 Humiliating Stories | |
| 1996 | ||
| Mary Louise Wilson | Full Gallop | |
| Andrea Martin | Nude Nude Totally Nude | |
| Karen Trott | Springhill Singing Disaster | |
| 1997 | ||
| Fiona Shaw | The Waste Land | |
| Eve Ensler | The Vagina Monologues | |
| Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | |
| Roger Guenveur Smith | A Huey P. Newton Story | |
| Julia Sweeney | Julia Sweeney's God Said "Ha!" | |
| 1998 | ||
| John Leguizamo | Freak | |
| Lewis Black | Black Humor | |
| Danny Hoch | Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop | |
| 1999 | ||
| David Hare | Via Dolorosa | |
| Will Bond | Bob | |
| Aviva Jane Carlin | Jodie's Body | |
| Alexander H. Cohen | Star Billing | |
| Lisa Kron | 2.5 Minute Ride | |
| Laurence Luckinbill | Clarence Darrow Tonight! |
2000s
| Year | Performer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | ||
| Dame Edna Everage | Dame Edna: The Royal Tour | |
| Olympia Dukakis | Rose | |
| Spalding Gray | Morning, Noon and Night | |
| Mark Linn-Baker | Chesapeake | |
| Mark Setlock | Fully Committed | |
| Marc Wolf | Another American: Asking and Telling | |
| 2001 | ||
| Pamela Gien | The Syringa Tree | |
| Eric Bogosian | Wake Up and Smell the Coffee | |
| Bette Bourne | Resident Alien | |
| Brian d'Arcy James | The Good Thief | |
| Sarah Jones | Surface Transit | |
| Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Lackawanna Blues | |
| 2002 | ||
| Elaine Stritch | Elaine Stritch at Liberty | |
| Dave Gorman | Are You Dave Gorman? | |
| Charles Nelson Reilly | Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly | |
| Reno | Rebel Without a Pause | |
| T. Ryder Smith | Underneath the Lintel | |
| 2003 | ||
| Tovah Feldshuh | Golda's Balcony | |
| Barbara Cook | Mostly Sondheim | |
| Frank Gorshin | Say Goodnight, Gracie | |
| Ricky Jay | Ricky Jay: On the Stem | |
| Priscilla Lopez | Class Mother '68 | |
| Charlayne Woodard | In Real Life | |
| 2004 | ||
| Jefferson Mays | I Am My Own Wife | |
| Barbara Cook | Barbara Cook's Broadway! | |
| Ben Gazzara | Nobody Don't Like Yogi | |
| Sarah Jones | Bridge and Tunnel | |
| Martin Moran | The Tricky Part | |
| Will Power | Flow | |
| 2005 | ||
| Billy Crystal | 700 Sundays | |
| Dame Edna Everage | Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance | |
| Dave Gorman | Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure | |
| Jackie Mason | Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed | |
| Tim Miller | Us | |
| James Urbaniak | Thom Pain (based on nothing) | |
| 2006 | ||
| Antony Sher | Primo | |
| Judy Gold | 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother | |
| Marga Gomez | Los Big Names | |
| Jon Peterson | George M. Cohan Tonight! | |
| Janis Stevens | Vivien | |
| Michael Winther | Songs from an Unmade Bed | |
| 2007 | ||
| Vanessa Redgrave | The Year of Magical Thinking | |
| Iris Bahr | Dai (enough) | |
| Ed Harris | Wrecks | |
| Capathia Jenkins | (mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story | |
| Anna Manahan | Sisters | |
| Nilaja Sun | No Child... | |
| 2008 | ||
| Laurence Fishburne | Thurgood | |
| Kris Anderson | Dixie's Tupperware Party | |
| Stephen Lang | Beyond Glory | |
| April Yvette Thompson | Liberty City | |
| 2009 | ||
| Lorenzo Pisoni | Humor Abuse | |
| Mike Birbiglia | Sleepwalk with Me | |
| Frank Blocker | Southern Gothic Novel | |
| Michael Laurence | Krapp, 39 | |
| Matt Sax | Clay | |
| Campbell Scott | The Atheist |
2010s
| Year | Performer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||
| Jim Brochu | Zero Hour | |
| Theodore Bikel | Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears | |
| Colman Domingo | A Boy and His Soul | |
| Carrie Fisher | Wishful Drinking | |
| Judith Ivey | The Lady with All the Answers | |
| Anna Deavere Smith | Let Me Down Easy | |
| 2011 | ||
| John Leguizamo | Ghetto Klown | |
| Daniel Beaty | Through the Night | |
| Mike Birbiglia | Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend | |
| Juliette Jeffers | Batman and Robin in the Boogie Down | |
| Colin Quinn | Colin Quinn: Long Story Short | |
| Joanna Tope | The Promise | |
| 2012 | ||
| Cillian Murphy | Misterman | |
| Baba Brinkman | The Rap Guide to Evolution | |
| Suli Holum | Chimera | |
| Jeff Key | The Eyes of Babylon | |
| Denis O'Hare | An Iliad | |
| Stephen Spinella | An Iliad | |
| 2013 | ||
| Michael Urie | Buyer & Cellar | |
| Joel de la Fuente | Hold These Truths | |
| Kathryn Hunter | Kafka's Monkey | |
| Bette Midler | I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers | |
| Julian Sands | A Celebration of Harold Pinter | |
| Holland Taylor | Ann | |
| 2014 | ||
| John Douglas Thompson | Satchmo at the Waldorf | |
| David Barlow | This is My Office | |
| Jim Brochu | Character Man | |
| Hannah Cabell | Grounded | |
| Debra Jo Rupp | Becoming Dr. Ruth | |
| Ruben Santiago-Hudson | August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned | |
| 2015 | ||
| Benjamin Scheuer | The Lion | |
| Christina Bianco | Application Pending | |
| Jonny Donahoe | Every Brilliant Thing | |
| Tom Dugan | Wiesenthal | |
| Mona Golabek | The Pianist of Willesden Lane | |
| Joely Richardson | The Belle of Amherst | |
| 2016 | ||
| Jesse Tyler Ferguson | Fully Committed | |
| Simon Callow | Tuesdays at Tesco's | |
| Kathleen Chalfant | Rose | |
| James Lecesne | The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey | |
| Daphne Rubin-Vega | Empanada Loca |
References
- "Drama Desk Award for Solo Performance". Internet Broadway Database. 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
External links
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