Drama League Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical
The Drama League Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical is a theater award presented annually since 2022 by The Drama League for the most outstanding director of a musical production of the theater season.
Alex Timbers has received the most nominations in the category, with three, followed closely by Leigh Silverman, Lileana Blain-Cruz and Susan Stroman with two nominations each. Lear deBessonet is the only winner to receive the award twice.
Winners and nominees
- Key
2020s
Year |
Director |
Production |
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2022 |
Marianne Elliott |
Company |
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Michael Mayer |
Funny Girl |
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Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage |
Six |
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Leigh Silverman |
Suffs |
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Niegel Smith |
The Hang |
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Christopher Wheeldon |
MJ the Musical |
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Jerry Zaks |
The Music Man |
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Lee Sunday Evans |
Oratorio for Living Things |
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John Doyle |
Assassins |
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2023 |
Lear deBessonet |
Into the Woods |
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Bartlett Sher |
Camelot |
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Lileana Blain-Cruz |
White Girl in Danger |
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Dreaming Zenzile |
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Thomas Kail |
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
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Susan Stroman |
New York, New York |
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Casey Nicholaw |
Some Like It Hot |
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Jack O'Brien |
Shucked |
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2024 |
Maria Friedman |
Merrily We Roll Along |
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Alex Timbers |
Gutenberg! The Musical! |
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Here Lies Love |
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Leigh Silverman |
Suffs |
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Des McAnuff |
The Who's Tommy |
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David Cromer |
Dead Outlaw |
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Sarah Benson |
Teeth |
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Saheem Ali |
Buena Vista Social Club |
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Rebecca Frecknall |
Cabaret |
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2025 |
Michael Arden |
Maybe Happy Ending |
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Robert Hastie |
Operation Mincemeat |
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George C. Wolfe |
Gypsy |
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Sergio Trujillo |
Real Women Have Curves |
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Annie Tippe |
Three Houses |
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Alex Timbers |
Just in Time |
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Susan Stroman |
Smash |
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Jerry Mitchell |
Boop! The Musical |
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Jamie Lloyd |
Sunset Boulevard |
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Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch |
Cats: The Jellicle Ball |
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Christopher Gattelli |
Death Becomes Her |
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2026 |
Lear deBessonet |
Ragtime |
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Michael Arden |
The Lost Boys |
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Lili-Anne Brown |
The Wild Party |
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Rachel Chavkin |
My Joy is Heavy |
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Lee Sunday Evans |
Oratorio for Living Things |
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Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch |
Cats: The Jellicle Ball |
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Danny Mefford |
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Bigfoot! |
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David Mendizábal |
Mexodus |
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Sam Pinkleton |
The Rocky Horror Show |
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Leigh Silverman |
The Seat of Our Pants |
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Alex Timbers |
Bat Boy: The Musical |
Multiple wins
- 2 wins
- Lear deBessonet
Multiple nominations
- 3 nominations
- Alex Timbers
- 2 nominations
- Lear deBessonet
- Leigh Silverman
- Lileana Blain-Cruz
- Susan Stroman