Who Are The 2025 Drama League Award Winners? Read The Full List!

On May 16, a ceremony was held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom announcing the 2025 Drama League Award winners. MAYBE HAPPY ENDING took home the award for Outstanding Production of a Musical while SUNSET BLVD star Nicole Scherzinger was honored with the Distinguished Performer Award. An actor can only receive this honor once in their career. In the category of Outstanding Revival of a Play, EUREKA DAY and VANYA tied for winning honor. Frank DiLella hosted the celebratory event.

Outstanding Production of a Play
The Antiquities
Becoming Eve
English
Good Bones
Good Night, And Good Luck
Here There Are Blueberries
John Proctor is the Villain
Liberation
Oh, Mary! (WINNER)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Purpose
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Walden

Outstanding Revival of a Play
The Cherry Orchard
Eureka Day (WINNER)
Ghosts
Glengarry Glen Ross
Home
Othello
Romeo + Juliet
A Streetcar Named Desire
Vanya (WINNER)
Wine in the Wilderness
Yellow Face

Outstanding Production of a Musical
BOOP! The Musical
Buena Vista Social Club
Dead Outlaw
Death Becomes Her
Drag: The Musical
Just in Time
Macbeth in Stride
Maybe Happy Ending (WINNER)
Operation Mincemeat
Real Women Have Curves
Smash
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends

Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Cats: “The Jellicle Ball”
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
The Last Five Years
Once Upon a Mattress
The Marriage of Figaro
Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Sunset Blvd. (WINNER)
Urinetown

Outstanding Direction of a Play
Knud Adams, English
Saheem Ali, Good Bones
David Cromer, Good Night, And Good Luck
Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary! (WINNER)
Tyne Rafaeli, Becoming Eve
Anna D. Shapiro, Eureka Day
Danya Taymor, John Proctor is The Villain
Whitney White, Liberation
Kip Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sam Yates, Vanya

Outstanding Direction of a Musical
Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending (WINNER)
Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
Robert Hastie, Operation Mincemeat
Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, Cats: “The Jellicle Ball”
Jamie Lloyd, Sunset Blvd.
Jerry Mitchell, BOOP! The Musical
Susan Stroman, Smash
Alex Timbers, Just In Time
Annie Tippe, Three Houses
Sergio Trujillo, Real Women Have Curves
George C. Wolfe, Gypsy

Distinguished Performance
Tala Ashe, English
Brooks Ashmanskas, Smash
Stori Ayers, Home
Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club
George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck
Kit Connor, Romeo + Juliet
Tatianna Córdoba, Real Women Have Curves
Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending
Kieran Culkin, Glengarry Glen Ross
André De Shields, Cats: “The Jellicle Ball”
Tommy Dorfman, Becoming Eve
Robert Downey, Jr., McNeal
Adam Driver, Hold On To Me Darling
Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw
Cole Escola, Oh, Mary!
Mia Farrow, The Roommate
Tom Francis, Sunset Blvd.
Amber Gray, Eureka Day
David Greenspan, I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan
Jonathan Groff, Just In Time
Jake Gyllenhaal, Othello
Ryan J. Haddad, Hold Me In The Water
Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her
Robyn Hurder, Smash
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose
Nick Jonas, The Last Five Years
Ramin Karimloo, Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Gracie Lawrence, Just In Time
Beth Leavel, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends
Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves
Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat
Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Idina Menzel, Redwood
Paul Mescal, A Streetcar Named Desire
Jinkx Monsoon, Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Marjan Neshat, English
Sandra Oh, The Welkin
Lily Rabe, Ghosts
Jasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The Musical
Lea Salonga, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends
Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Blvd. (WINNER)
Andrew Scott, Vanya
Helen J. Shen, Maybe Happy Ending
Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her
Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ephraim Sykes, Our Town
Alaska Thunderfuck, Drag: The Musical
Adrienne Warren, The Last Five Years
Denzel Washington, Othello
Joy Woods, Gypsy
Kara Young, Purpose and Table 17

The 2025 Special Recognition Honorees are Lea Salonga, Whitney White, Robert Greenblatt, Neil Meron and Kate Navin, and Audible Theater.

The following past recipients of the Distinguished Performance Award were acknowledged for their extraordinary work this season, as they are not eligible to be nominated or win again:

Annaleigh Ashford, All In
Danny Burstein, Gypsy
Norbert Leo Butz, Vladimir
Sutton Foster, Once Upon A Mattress
Neil Patrick Harris, Shit. Meet. Fan.
Patti LuPone, The Roommate
Audra McDonald, Gypsy
Lin-Manuel Miranda, All In
Bernadette Peters, Stephen Sondheim: Old Friends