| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design for a Play | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Costume Design for a Play |
| Location | New York City |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Drama Desk |
| First awarded | 2016 |
| Currently held by | Jennifer Moeller for Clyde's (2022) |
| Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume 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 Costume Design being presented each year to any play or musical production. Starting in 2016, the singular award was replaced by separate play and musical categories.
| Year | Designer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | ||
| Anita Yavich | The Legend of Georgia McBride | |
| Jessica Ford | These Paper Bullets! | |
| Martha Hally | Women Without Men | |
| Constance Hoffman | Pericles | |
| William Ivey Long | Shows for Days | |
| 2017 | ||
| Jane Greenwood | The Little Foxes | |
| Susan Hilferty | Present Laughter | |
| Murell Horton | The Liar | |
| Toni-Leslie James | Jitney | |
| Stewart Laing | The Hairy Ape | |
| Ann Roth | The Front Page | |
| 2018 | ||
| Jonathan Fensom | Farinelli and the King | |
| Dede M. Ayite | School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play | |
| Katrina Lindsay | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | |
| Ann Roth | Three Tall Women | |
| Emilio Sosa | Venus | |
| 2019 | ||
| Toni-Leslie James | Bernhardt/Hamlet | |
| Dede M. Ayite | By the Way, Meet Vera Stark | |
| If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka | ||
| Ásta Bennie Hostetter | Mrs. Murray's Menagerie | |
| Nicole Slaven | Henry VI: Shakespeare's Trilogy in Two Parts |
| Year | Designer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||
| Rachel Townsend and Jessica Jahn | The Confession of Lily Dare | |
| Asa Benally | Blues for an Alabama Sky | |
| Montana Levi Blanco | Fefu and Her Friends | |
| Toni-Leslie James | for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf | |
| Antony McDonald | Judgment Day | |
| Kaye Voyce | Coriolanus | |
| 2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City[1] | |
| 2022 | ||
| Jennifer Moeller | Clyde's | |
| Linda Cho | The Chinese Lady | |
| Gregory Gale | Fairycakes | |
| Tilly Grimes | The Alchemist | |
| Qween Jean | On Sugarland | |