# Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for a Play 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 | Scott Bradley | Seven Guitars |
| 1996 | Derek McLane and Mark McKenna | The Monogamist |
| 1996 | Neil Patel | Quills |
| 1996 | Narelle Sissons | Entertaining Mr. Sloane |
| 1996 | Julie Taymor and Christine Jones | The Green Bird |
| 1996 | Tony Walton | A Fair Country |
| 1997 |
| 1997 | David Gallo and Jan Hartley | Bunny Bunny |
| 1997 | Robert Brill | The Rehearsal |
| 1997 | Marina Draghici | The Skriker |
| 1997 | Derek McLane | Present Laughter |
| 1997 | James Noone | The Gin Game |
| 1998 |
| 1998 | The Quay Brothers | The Chairs |
| 1998 | Loy Arcenas | Ballad of Yachiyo |
| 1998 | Chris Barreca | Three Days of Rain |
| 1998 | John Lee Beatty | Ivanov |
| 1998 | Santo Loquasto | Milansky/Zilisnky or 'Schmucks' |
| 1998 | Derek McLane | Misalliance |
| 1999 |
| 1999 | Richard Hoover | Not About Nightingales |
| 1999 | John Lee Beatty | The Mystery of Irma Vep |
| 1999 | Maria Björnson | Britannicus and Phèdre |
| 1999 | Bob Crowley | Twelfth Night |
| 1999 | Allen Moyer | That Championship Season |
| 1999 | James Noone | Night Must Fall |

### 2000s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 2000 |
| 2000 | David Gallo | Jitney |
| 2000 | Derek McLane | East is East |
| 2000 | James Noone | The Time of the Cuckoo |
| 2000 | Rob Odorisio | An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf |
| 2000 | Neil Patel | Dinner with Friends |
| 2000 | Tony Walton | Uncle Vanya |
| 2001 |
| 2001 | Bob Crowley | The Invention of Love |
| 2001 | John Lee Beatty | Comic Potential |
| 2001 | Jeff Cowie | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant |
| 2001 | David Gallo | King Hedley II |
| 2001 | Thomas Lynch | Old Money |
| 2001 | Dean Taucher | Tabletop |
| 2002 |
| 2002 | Tim Hatley | Private Lives |
| 2002 | John Lee Beatty | Morning's at Seven |
| 2002 | Michael Brown | World of Mirth |
| 2002 | David Gallo | Wonder of the World |
| 2002 | Derek McLane | The Women |
| 2002 | Douglas Stein and Rupert Bohle | 36 Views |
| 2003 |
| 2003 | John Lee Beatty | Dinner at Eight |
| 2003 | John Lee Beatty | My Old Lady |
| 2003 | Troy Hourie | Temporary Help |
| 2003 | Scott Pask | Take Me Out |
| 2003 | Neil Patel | Endpapers |
| 2003 | B.T. Whitehall | Shanghai Moon |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | John Lee Beatty | Twentieth Century |
| 2004 | Scott Bradley | The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci |
| 2004 | Ralph Funicello | Henry IV |
| 2004 | David Korins | Blackbird |
| 2004 | Andrew Lieberman | Wintertime |
| 2004 | Derek McLane | I Am My Own Wife |
| 2005 |
| 2005 | Santo Loquasto | Glengarry Glen Ross |
| 2005 | Robert Brill | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 2005 | Marisa Frantz | Frankenstein |
| 2005 | Nathan Heverin | Outward Bound |
| 2005 | Richard Hoover | After the Fall |
| 2005 | David Korins | Orange Flower Water |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | Michael Yeargan | Awake and Sing! |
| 2006 | Roger Hanna | Walking Down Broadway |
| 2006 | Eugene Lee | The Ruby Sunrise |
| 2006 | Derek McLane | Abigail's Party |
| 2006 | Robert Wilson | Peer Gynt |
| 2006 | Michael Yeargan | Seascape |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | Bob Crowley and Scott Pask | The Coast of Utopia |
| 2007 | David Gallo | Radio Golf |
| 2007 | David Korins | Essential Self-Defense |
| 2007 | David Korins | Jack Goes Boating |
| 2007 | Garin Marschall | Hell House |
| 2007 | Scott Pask | Blackbird |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | Scott Pask | Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
| 2008 | Beowulf Boritt | Spain |
| 2008 | Scott Bradley | Eurydice |
| 2008 | David Korins | Hunting and Gathering |
| 2008 | Santo Loquasto | Trumpery |
| 2008 | Clint Ramos | The Return of the Prodigal |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | David Korins | Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them |
| 2009 | Dale Ferguson | Exit the King |
| 2009 | Rob Howell | The Norman Conquests |
| 2009 | Neil Patel | Fifty Words |
| 2009 | Derek McLane | 33 Variations |
| 2009 | Walt Spangler | Desire Under the Elms |

### 2010s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Christopher Oram | Hughie |
| 2016 | Riccardo Hernandez | Red Speedo |
| 2016 | Mimi Lien | John |
| 2016 | G. W. Mercier | Head of Passes |
| 2016 | Derek McLane | Fully Committed |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Nigel Hook | The Play That Goes Wrong |
| 2017 | David Gallo | Jitney |
| 2017 | Laura Jellinek | A Life |
| 2017 | Stewart Laing | The Hairy Ape |
| 2017 | Douglas W. Schmidt | The Front Page |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Miriam Buether | Three Tall Women |
| 2018 | Bunny Christie | People, Places and Things |
| 2018 | Lizzie Clachan | Yerma |
| 2018 | Maruti Evans | Kill Move Paradise |
| 2018 | Louisa Thompson | In the Blood |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | Matt Saunders | "Daddy" |
| 2019 | Miriam Buether | The Jungle |
| 2019 | Es Devlin | Girls & Boys |
| 2019 | Maruti Evans | The Peculiar Patriot |
| 2019 | Mimi Lien | Fairview |

### 2020s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Clint Ramos | Grand Horizons |
| 2020 | Catherine Cornell | Mac Beth |
| 2020 | Adam Rigg | Fefu and Her Friends |
| 2020 | Paul Steinberg | Judgment Day |
| 2020 | B.T. Whitehill | The Confession of Lily Dare |
| 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 | Takeshi Kata | Clyde's |
| 2022 | Beowulf Boritt | Merry Wives |
| 2022 | Wilson Chin | Pass Over |
| 2022 | Marsha Ginsberg | English |
| 2022 | Junghyun Georgia Lee | Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord |
| 2023 | Tim Hatley | Life of Pi |
| 2023 | Jason Ardizzone-West | Wedding Band |
| 2023 | Beowulf Boritt | Ohio State Murders |
| 2023 | dots | Public Obscenities |
| 2023 | Natasha Jenkins | Love |
| 2023 | John McDermott | Chains |
| 2024 | David Zinn | Stereophonic |
| 2024 | dots | Appropriate |
| 2024 | Es Devlin | The Hunt |
| 2024 | Derek McLane | Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp through the Cotton Patch |
| 2024 | Scott Pask | Grey House |