# Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for a Musical is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City.
The award was established in 1969, with the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design being presented each year to any play or musical production. Starting in 1996, the singular award was replaced by separate play and musical categories, but then merged again from 2010 to 2015; the separate play and musical categories have again co-existed since 2016.

## Winners and nominees
### 1990s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1996 |
| 1996 | Brian Thomson | The King and I |
| 1996 | G.W. Mercier | Bed and Sofa |
| 1996 | Christina Poddubiuk, James Noone and Robin Wagner | Big: the musical |
| 1996 | Robin Wagner | Victor/Victoria |
| 1997 |
| 1997 | Robin Phillips | Jekyll & Hyde |
| 1997 | Clarke Dunham | Candide |
| 1997 | G.W. Mercier and Julie Taymor | Juan Darien |
| 1997 | James Morgan | No Way to Treat a Lady |
| 1997 | Tony Walton | Steel Pier |
| 1997 | Wendall K. Harrington | Steel Pier |
| 1998 |
| 1998 | Richard Hudson | The Lion King |
| 1998 | Robert Brill | Cabaret |
| 1998 | Eugene Lee | Ragtime |
| 1998 | Wendall K. Harrington | Ragtime |
| 1999 |
| 1999 | Lez Brotherston | Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake |
| 1999 | David Gallo | You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown |
| 1999 | Riccardo Hernandez | Parade |
| 1999 | G.W. Mercier and Jan Hartley | Dream True |

### 2000s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 2000 |
| 2000 | Robin Wagner | Kiss Me, Kate |
| 2000 | Julian Crouch and Graeme Gilmour | Shockheaded Peter |
| 2000 | David Gallo | The Wild Party |
| 2000 | Thomas Lynch | Contact |
| 2000 | Thomas Lynch | The Music Man |
| 2001 |
| 2001 | Robin Wagner | The Producers |
| 2001 | Heidi Ettinger | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| 2001 | Richard Hoover and Bryan Johnson | Bat Boy: The Musical |
| 2001 | David Rockwell | The Rocky Horror Show |
| 2001 | Douglas Schmidt | 42nd Street |
| 2002 |
| 2002 | Douglas Schmidt | Into the Woods |
| 2002 | Beowulf Boritt | The Last Five Years |
| 2002 | Bob Crowley | Sweet Smell of Success |
| 2002 | David Gallo | Thoroughly Modern Millie |
| 2002 | Anthony Ward | Oklahoma! |
| 2003 |
| 2003 | Catherine Martin | La Bohème |
| 2003 | Riccardo Hernandez | Radiant Baby |
| 2003 | Scott Pask | Amour |
| 2003 | David Rockwell | Hairspray |
| 2003 | Stéphane Roy | Cirque du Soleil: Varekai |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | Eugene Lee | Wicked |
| 2004 | John Lee Beatty | Wonderful Town |
| 2004 | Robert Brill | Assassins |
| 2004 | Tom Pye | Fiddler on the Roof |
| 2004 | Mark Thompson | Bombay Dreams |
| 2005 |
| 2005 | Michael Yeargan | The Light in the Piazza |
| 2005 | Lez Brotherston | Play Without Words |
| 2005 | Tim Hatley | Monty Python's Spamalot |
| 2005 | Scott Pask | Sweet Charity |
| 2005 | David Rockwell | All Shook Up |
| 2005 | Anthony Ward | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | David Gallo | The Drowsy Chaperone |
| 2006 | Michael Bottari and Ronald Case | Fanny Hill |
| 2006 | John Doyle | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| 2006 | Thomas Lynch | See What I Wanna See |
| 2006 | Allen Moyer | Grey Gardens |
| 2006 | Scott Pask | The Wedding Singer |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | Bob Crowley | Mary Poppins |
| 2007 | Beowulf Boritt | LoveMusik |
| 2007 | Anna Louizos | In the Heights |
| 2007 | Anna Louizos | Curtains |
| 2007 | David Rockwell | Legally Blonde |
| 2007 | Kris Stone | Brundibar/But the Giraffe |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | Michael Yeargan | South Pacific |
| 2008 | David Gallo | A Catered Affair |
| 2008 | Takeshi Kata | Adding Machine |
| 2008 | Derek McLane | 10 Million Miles |
| 2008 | George Tsypin | The Little Mermaid |
| 2008 | Robin Wagner | Young Frankenstein |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | Tim Hatley | Shrek the Musical |
| 2009 | Anna Louizos | Irving Berlin's White Christmas |
| 2009 | Thomas Lynch | Happiness |
| 2009 | Scott Pask | 9 to 5 |
| 2009 | Scott Pask | Hair |
| 2009 | Basil Twist | Arias with a Twist |

### 2010s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | David Rockwell | She Loves Me |
| 2016 | Es Devlin | American Psycho |
| 2016 | Emily Orling, Matt Saunders and Eric Farber | Futurity |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Mimi Lien | Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 |
| 2017 | Les Brotherson | 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips |
| 2017 | Simon Kenny | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| 2017 | Santo Loquasto | Hello, Dolly! |
| 2017 | Jason Sherwood | The View UpStairs |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | David Zinn | SpongeBob SquarePants |
| 2018 | Louisa Adamson and Christian Barry | Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story |
| 2018 | Beowulf Boritt | Prince of Broadway |
| 2018 | Dane Laffrey | Once on This Island |
| 2018 | Santo Loquasto | Carousel |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | David Korins | Beetlejuice |
| 2019 | Rachel Hauck | Hadestown |
| 2019 | Laura Jellinek | Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! |
| 2019 | Laura Jellinek | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future |
| 2019 | Rae Smith | Girl from the North Country |

### 2020s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Derek McLane | Moulin Rouge! |
| 2020 | Julian Crouch | Little Shop of Horrors |
| 2020 | Anna Louizos | Scotland, PA |
| 2020 | Clint Ramos | Soft Power |
| 2020 | Amy Rubin and Brittany Vasta | Octet |
| 2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Beowulf Boritt | Flying Over Sunset |
| 2022 | Emma Bailey | Six |
| 2022 | Bunny Christie | Company |
| 2022 | David Zinn | Kimberly Akimbo |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | Beowulf Boritt | New York, New York |
| 2023 | David Korins | Only Gold |
| 2023 | Scott Pask | Shucked |
| 2023 | Walt Spangler & Brendan McCann (production props) | Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical |
| 2023 | Michael Yeargan | Camelot |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | Paul Tate DePoo III | The Great Gatsby |
| 2024 | AMP featuring Tatiana Kahvegian | The Outsiders |
| 2024 | Riccardo Hernández | Suffs |
| 2024 | Arnulfo Maldonado | Dead Outlaw |
| 2024 | Grace Smart | Good Vibrations: A Punk Rock Musical |