NY Theater by Brian Scott Lipton
The annual Drama Desk Award “Meet the Nominees” party was held on Wednesday, May 7 at the JW Marriott Essex House.
Theater Pizzazz spoke to a slew of nominees and special award winners, including actors Chris O’Dowd, Idina Menzel, Michael C. Hall, Kelli O’Hara, Steven Pasquale, Sophie Okenedo, Jessie Mueller, Anika Larsen, Andy Karl, Jefferson Mays, Bryce Pinkham, Lauren Worsham, Joshua Henry, Laura Osnes, Betty Buckley, Veanne Cox, John Douglas Thompson, Nick Cordero, Danny Burstein, Reed Birney, Stephanie J. Block, Hamish Linklater, J. Smith-Cameron, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Brian J. Smith, Peter Maloney, Rory O’Malley, Sydney Lucas, Jennifer Simard, Adriane Lenox, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Jim Brochu, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, as well as director-choreographers Susan Stroman and Warren Carlyle, composer-lyricists Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Lippa, and more.
The 2014 Drama Desk Awards will be held on Sunday, June 1 at Town Hall. www.dramadesk.org
*Photos: Maryann Lopinto
*Video: Sandi Durell