The Inheritance wins five Drama Desk Awards

The Inheritance has won five categories at the Drama Desk Awards in New York, including outstanding play.

Having been nominated across six categories, other awards won by the production include outstanding featured actor – won by Paul Hilton – and featured actress, which was won by Lois Smith.

Stephen Daldry won outstanding director and Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid won the sound design accolade for The Inheritance.

The 65th Drama Desk Awards, which celebrate theatre in New York, were announced in a virtual ceremony on June 13.

Other winners included Adrienne Warren, who won outstanding actress in a musical for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, and Laura Linney for outstanding solo performance in My Name is Lucy Barton, which previously ran in London.

Jack Thorne won the outstanding adaptation award for A Christmas Carol.

The winners in full were:

Outstanding play
The Inheritance, by Matthew Lopez

Outstanding musical
A Strange Loop, Playwrights Horizons/Page 73 Productions

Outstanding revival of a play
A Soldier’s Play, Roundabout Theatre Company

Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Little Shop of Horrors

Outstanding actor in a play
Edmund Donovan, Greater Clements

Outstanding actress in a play
Liza Colón-Zayas, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven

Outstanding actor in a musical
Larry Owens, A Strange Loop

Outstanding actress in a musical
Adrienne Warren, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical

Outstanding featured actor in a play
Paul Hilton, The Inheritance

Outstanding featured actress in a play
Lois Smith, The Inheritance

Outstanding featured actor in a musical
Christian Borle, Little Shop of Horrors

Outstanding featured actress in a musical
Lauren Patten, Jagged Little Pill

Outstanding director of a play
Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance

Outstanding director of a musical
Stephen Brackett, A Strange Loop

Outstanding choreography
Sonya Tayeh, Moulin Rouge!

Outstanding music
Dave Malloy, Octet

Outstanding lyrics
Michael R Jackson, A Strange Loop

Outstanding book of a musical
Michael R Jackson, A Strange Loop

Outstanding orchestrations
Tom Kitt, Jagged Little Pill

Outstanding music in a play
Martha Redbone, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Outstanding scenic design for a play
Clint Ramos, Grand Horizons

Outstanding scenic design for a musical
Derek McLane, Moulin Rouge!

Outstanding costume design for a play
Rachel Townsend and Jessica Jahn, The Confession of Lily Dare

Outstanding costume design for a musical
Catherine Zuber, Moulin Rouge!

Outstanding lighting design for a play
Heather Gilbert, The Sound Inside

Outstanding lighting design for a musical
Justin Townsend, Moulin Rouge!

Outstanding projection design
Luke Halls, West Side Story

Outstanding sound design for a play
Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid, The Inheritance

Outstanding sound design for a musical
Peter Hylenski, Moulin Rouge!

Outstanding wig and hair design
Campbell Young Associates, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical

Outstanding solo performance
Laura Linney, My Name is Lucy Barton

Unique theatrical experience
Is This A Room, Vineyard Theatre

Outstanding fight choreography
Thomas Schall, A Soldier’s Play

Outstanding adaptation
A Christmas Carol, by Jack Thorne